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Posted yesterday.

Report decries lack of price transparency
ModernHealthcare.com
3 about Medicare expenditures for implantable medical device procedures and the overall lack of transparency in current purchasing practices at hospitals. “The lack of price transparency for the [implantable medical devices] we examined makes it ...

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Posted yesterday.

Transparency is the new secrecy!
Greeley Gazette
In 2008, while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said, "Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate.

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Posted on Jan 31, 2012 (4 days ago)

Employers need healthcare price transparency
The Hill (blog)
While this may sound like a fantasy, the reality is that such a solution to rising health care costs already exists: price and quality transparency. And the need for transparency is greater than ever. Currently, healthcare does not function as an ...

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Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Fair Health President Robin Gelburd to Address Northeast Business Leaders on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Gelburd will speak about the importance of making data on healthcare costs more transparent and more readily available to consumers. With the NEBGH gathering conference focused on innovations in cost transparency, Gelburd will highlight how FAIR Health ...

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Posted today (22 hours ago)

Payment-reform demos advance despite obstacles
ModernHealthcare.com
With a $6 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant it received in 2007, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute developed Prometheus, which stands for “Provider payment Reform for Outcomes, Margins, Evidence, Transparency, Hassle-reduction ...


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Posted yesterday.

GAO: Demanding docs to blame for medical device prices
FierceHealthIT
The GAO report says lack of price transparency hampers hospitals' ability to be "prudent purchasers" of medical devices. Device makers say their products represent only a small portion of the $2.8 trillion in annual health spending and that greater ...

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Posted on Feb 2, 2012 (2 days ago)

Fair Health President Robin Gelburd to Address Northeast Business Leaders on ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Gelburd will speak about the importance of making data on healthcare costs more transparent and more readily available to consumers. With the NEBGH gathering conference focused on innovations in cost transparency, Gelburd will highlight how FAIR Health ...


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Posted yesterday.

Reauthorize PDUFA!
Forbes
The agreement between the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies will strengthen America's health care system and foster greater innovation. It will benefit patients by facilitating efficient, transparent, and comprehensive drug reviews that will result ...

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Posted yesterday.

Reexcision rates after mastectomy vary by institution
Nurse.com
The current environment of healthcare reform in the United States calls for increasing physician and hospital accountability and transparency of healthcare outcomes, the authors wrote as background information in the study. "Breast-conserving therapy ...

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Posted yesterday.

Health IT Managers Say Tablets Can Cause Problems
InformationWeek
IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterprise healthcare applications and can raise IT support costs. By Nicole Lewis InformationWeek As the popularity of tablet use among physicians continues to ...


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