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October 2011 Issue

Poll: Employees Don’t Want Changes in Their Health Insurance

Employees love to gripe about rising healthcare costs, but a new poll finds most are not willing to sacrifice to pay less for their insurance. Only 27 percent of people with insurance provided throu...

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CMS Taps Cloud Services for Health

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will use cloud computing services to support its Healthcare.gov plan finder and the system demands of the health insurance exchange program being cre...

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Obesity Costs Vary By State, Study Reports

Obesity costs some states as much as $15 billion a year, according to a new study from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The researchers estimated how much each state spend...

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Health Insurance Premiums Up 9 Percent in 2011, Survey Reports

Premiums for employer sponsored family health plans went up 9 percent this year, and workers' shares of premiums and deductibles also soared, a new national Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows...

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AMA: Sets Framework For Patient Outcome Measures

The American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement has adopted principles on developing outcome-based measures of doctors' quality. The recommendations wi...

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No Boundaries for VA’s Telehealth Program

The VA’s far-reaching telehealth program continues to expand as telehealth makes inroads as a viable solution to providers seeking lower costs and improved care, particularly when it comes to ...

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Poll: Growing Influence and Use of Health Care Information Obtained Online

The influence of the Internet on health care and the practice of medicine continue to increase, according to a Harris Poll. In the late 1990s, Harris first used the word "cyberchondriacs" ...

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Fees Major Factor in Health Costs, Study Says

Doctors are paid higher fees in the United States than in several other countries, and this is a major factor in the nation’s higher overall cost of healthcare, says a new study by two Columbi...

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