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Health Highlights: May 22, 2012
Tue, 22 May 2012 06:10:11 -0700
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Three Health Technology Companies To Watch
Tue, 22 May 2012 06:04:46 -0700
Last week, Towers Watson bought Extend Health, which allows retirees to choose from thousands of private Medicare plans according to their needs, instead of having their employer make the decision. Towers paid $435 million. One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five years 10 times its investment in Extend Health?an unusual occurrence in health IT.
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Home Health International, Inc. Announces New CEO
Tue, 22 May 2012 05:12:00 -0700
VERO BEACH, FL-- - Home Health International, Inc. is pleased to announce today that it has named Elizabeth Velozo, BSN, MSNH, COS-C as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.Ms. Velozo ...
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What could revolutionize health care? This database.
Mon, 21 May 2012 06:09:36 -0700
Think of it as a health policy wonk’s dream: Football stadium after football stadium packed to the brim with...health insurance claims data. An odd dream, to be sure. But health insurance data is crucial to understand how health care dollars get spent. It shows how people use health care, what’s changing and, in some cases, why. Health insurers, however, have tended to keep that data private, as ...
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Health Highlights: May 21, 2012
Tue, 22 May 2012 04:16:15 -0700
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
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SCAN Health Plan Arizona Joins in Celebrating National Senior Health & Fitness Day
Mon, 21 May 2012 08:00:00 -0700
SCAN Health Plan Arizona is joining organizations across America in celebrating the 19th annual National Senior Health & Fitness Day® on May 30. On this day an estimated 100,000 older adults will participate in local fitness-related activities at 1,000 locations throughout the country.
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Quintiles’ New Health Report Evaluates the Risk Equation in Biopharmaceutical Medicine
Tue, 22 May 2012 05:30:00 -0700
The constellation of stakeholders in the healthcare industry most responsible for the progress of medicine do not agree on a common lens from which to view risk for their own purposes, nor for the other stakeholders they are dependent upon.
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Harper Government leads an international roundtable on mental health
Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:00 -0700
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 22, 2012 /CNW/ - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today led an international roundtable to discuss common challenges and promising practices in addressing mental ...
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Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
Sun, 20 May 2012 12:46:19 -0700
Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't.
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L.A. Unified a rare haven for health teachers
Mon, 21 May 2012 09:55:46 -0700
The school district still has dedicated health classes while many others have ended theirs, largely for fiscal reasons. As if on cue, all faces turn alertly toward the front of the classroom where Bridget Brownell has set up a slide show at Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
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