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Half of Consumers Think Health Care Spending is Wasted

by francine 08.26.2011

We appear to have “bent the curve” in health care spending last year; national health spending grew at a historically unprecedented low of  3.9%. That’s including all national health expenditures — private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and out-of-pocket expenses. You would think this was a good thing, right? But according to Deloitte’s new survey, not [...]

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6 Major Disruptions Still Ahead for Health Care

by francine 08.16.2011

As the last of the large American industries to undergo forcible automation, health care is currently in a state of prolonged agony. The HealthTech NextGen 2011 Conference, held in San Francisco recently, highlighted this by calling attention to at least six disruptive changes that are still ahead in health care. These range from physician workflow to [...]

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Rock Health Makes Another Stab at Health Care Reform

by francine 07.28.2011

What are the odds that I would find myself in a room with two other women who  also worked at Intel and were passionate about health care?  I thought maybe a million-to-one until I met Halle Tecco and Leslie Zeigler at Rock Health. They are truly star power. It gets better from there. Rock Health is a [...]

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Insurance for People with Pre-existing Conditions is Available and Affordable in Most States

by francine 07.21.2011

This morning I attended a Small Business Roundtable held by the Phoenix Business Journal, one of forty such publications in the country. The focus of the meeting was for the Business Journal to learn what it could do to provide more help to small business in the community. Around the table were representatives from chambers [...]

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