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		<title>With health care in America, comes health care insurance. Core Components of a Health Insurance Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care insurance is a core component of care in the US. We have heard a lot about health information exchanges, but we have heard very little about the health insurance exchanges. Dan Schuyler, Director with Leavitt Partners explains the core components of a health insurance exchange. 1. The core components of an exchange 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare Pay Cut Goes into Effect on Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlueApoc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement will go into effect March 1, after the Senate failed to pass a bill to stop the cuts. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a guidance just hours after the Senate adjourned for the weekend that buys doctors some more time. &#8220;We believe Congress is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo Clinic makes a $22 Billion dollar annual impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was released by Mayo Clinic this week. ************* Today, we are announcing the results of a new Mayo Clinic economic impact study, which was conducted by the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice, an independent nonprofit research and development organization. We have done site-based studies before, but this is the first enterprise-wide look at our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MMR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Consider the costs associated with the American healthcare system, the contentions associated with managed care implementation, and the continued problems associated with macro and microallocation within this system. What ethics do you believe should guide continuing change in the American health care delivery system? According to the US Census Bureau (2009), Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Information Technology Systems market to be worth $53.8 billion by 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlueApoc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The healthcare information technology report forecasts the size of global healthcare information technology market over the period 2009 – 2014. The report analyses the key trends of the market, and segments the global healthcare information technology market by components and into various geographic regions (with the market size of each of these regions). Further, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing medical technology while controlling healthcare costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MMR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Introduction &#38; Background One of the chief concerns in the debate over healthcare reform is the universal need to contain healthcare costs while still providing reasonable healthcare services to the millions of uninsured. As technology advances, tests and treatments are newly available; however, there are only minimal cost controls in place for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Government: Healthcare Cost Containment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MMR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk One of the most important social and political topics of the current environment is healthcare. Skyrocketing costs as well as an aging baby boomer population have driven concerns, especially within the socioeconomic recession. In order to control costs, the federal and state governments have passed legislation, rules and regulations to aid in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methodist Hospital Adopts New Technology Solutions to Improve Care for California Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Methodist Hospital of Arcadia, California, has launched an integrated deployment of innovative health care information technology (HIT) solutions designed to help improve the quality of patient care and deliver operational efficiencies. MedPlus®, the health care information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, provided the integrated solution to help Methodist reduce the length of stay associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<title>Statement from Lawrence Massa, President Minnesota Hospital Association</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Pawlenty’s proposed budget will undermine hospitals’ stability and unravel the state’s health care safety net ST. PAUL, Minn. — Governor Tim Pawlenty’s budget proposal announced today will severely hurt Minnesota’s hospitals and the citizens they serve. His proposed budget would entirely eliminate some payments to hospitals, unilaterally reduce payment rates for patients in state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National financial woes will hurt hospitals, IT to take major blows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nations financial woes just keep coming.  I would like to be a &#8220;glass half full&#8221; person, but I am not sure we are at the end.  Health care has long been considered recession proof, but with state budgets being pummeled and health care being the #1 expense in many states we are going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of money cuts&#8230;they have begun in Minnesota</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This note came out recently from the Minneosta Hospital Association.  Posted here with their permission: Dear Minnesota Hospital Leaders, Communicators and Government Relations Officers: The recent cuts to hospitals through the unallotment process demonstrate that the hospital community needs to unite behind a sustained advocacy effort to reverse a troubling trend. The trend is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Information Technology to take major budget cuts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing trend is emerging across America.  Just as Medical Centers are starting to fully move into the electronic realms, big budget cuts are looming.  37 states are facing budget shorfalls in 2009.   Many of these states are looking at cutting services and costs to help balance their budgets. How does this affect Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Priorites for Health Care CIOs in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Manage costs Managing costs is always a huge component of the IT leaders job.  In 2009, it will be absolutely critical.  State governments across the nation have deficits.  36 states are facing huge shortfalls in revenue, and you can bet that health care will be among groups to take cuts.  Cost per unit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take another look at your application&#8217;s strengths &#8211; Shawn Riley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take another look at your application base’s strengths One of the most common potential savings most medical systems have is in their already installed application base. Over and over organizations purchase application suites with a very limited purpose in mind. They very often completely overlook the added features many of these systems have. This leads [...]]]></description>
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