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Is digital health's investment hype growing faster than adoption?
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 6:35 PM
Money is flowing into the digital health space faster than ever before, but innovators and healthcare providers are moving at different speeds when it comes to adoption of new technologies.


Obama calls for moonshot approach to cure cancer
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 5:32 PM
In his final State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama also said the country is on track to end HIV/AIDS and malaria.


Tools to choose effective cancer treatment are too many, too rigid: oncologists
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:00 PM
The American Society of Clinical Oncology says so-called clinical pathways created and distributed by payers and for-profit firms are laden with inadequacies and conflicts of interest.


Adjusting for social determinants in value-based payments still fuzzy
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 3:00 PM
There's no question that race, gender, socio-economic status and health literacy influence a patient's healthcare access, cost and outcomes. But what's still fuzzy is an understanding of which factors are within a provider's control and how to...


Califf nomination for FDA chief moves to full Senate
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:30 PM
Lawmakers took little time on Tuesday moving forward on the nomination of the Obama administration's choice to run the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, despite the objections of one senator.


VA's backlog reduction questioned
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:00 PM
A House committee looking into claims by the Veterans Affairs Department that is has dramatically reduced its backlog of benefit claims in the past year heard skepticism from a government investigator.


Kindred subsidiary to pay $125 million to settle false-claims allegations
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 11:45 AM
Nursing home therapy giant RehabCare has agreed to pay the government $125 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging it knowingly caused facilities it contracted with to inappropriately bill Medicare for services.


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