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		<title><![CDATA[GMAC's Ally Bank Snubbed By Established Banks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GMAC's new retail-banking operation, Ally Bank, isn't exactly getting a warm welcome from the rest of the banking industry. The American Banking Association has already complained about the high rates Ally is paying on CD and savings deposits, moaning that Ally is getting a pass from federal regulators.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:16:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Will Ford Lead in Contracting When the Feds Own Stakes in GM and Chrysler?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the federal government ends up owning significant equity stakes in GM and Chrylser, will the automakers be able to participate in competitively-bid contracts? Will Ford -- and perhaps foreign automakers -- have a real edge as a result? BNET Auto blogger Steve Miller ponders the procurement consequences of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:19:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Top Ten Electronic Medical Record Vendors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000350/the-top-ten-electronic-medical-record-vendors/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Who are the leading healthcare IT vendors in the U.S.? No sweat if you don't know -- most of these companies are all but unknown outside of the healthcare field. So here's a handy reference of the top ten electronic-health-record vendors, courtesy of Modern Healthcare. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:38:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Insurance Earnings Drop, Dems Back Daschle, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recession, rising medical costs and investment losses caused steep earnings declines at major health-insurance companies; Tom Daschle won the backing of key Senate Democrats as his nomination as HHS secretary hangs in the balance; an appeals court ruled that detailed Medicare claims data will remain private; and more. by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:25:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Essential Reading: How National Healthcare Systems Evolved]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atul Gawande, a Boston-area surgeon, researcher and writer for the New Yorker, has just published a fascinating look at how national healthcare systems around the world grew and evolved from very different starting points. The subject is obviously timely because of momentum building behind a major healthcare reform later this...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:35:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hospitals vs. Doctors: Can They Work Together to Avoid Medical Errors?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000315/hospitals-vs-doctors-can-they-work-together-to-avoid-medical-errors/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I briefly noted a spirited conversation over at Paul Levy's blog Running a Hospital over the question of how -- and even whether -- hospitals can find and implement innovative ways to avoid medical errors. The unusually detailed and informed conversation, which I summarize for BNET Healthcare readers,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:08:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Highmark-Independence Merger Collapses Under Fear of Competition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highmark and Independence Blue Cross, two Blue health-insurance plans in Pennsylvania that have sought to merge for almost two years, called off the deal today for a seemingly quirky reason: The state insurance commissioner would have forced the combined company to give up either the Blue Cross or Blue Shield...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:25:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tufts Medical-Blue Cross Ceasefire: A Grand Bargain on Quality and Cost?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000304/tufts-medical-blue-cross-ceasefire-in-massachusetts-a-grand-bargain-on-quality-and-cost/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The big standoff between Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, in which Tufts threatened to cut off patients insured by the Blue unless the health-insurance outfit agreed to pay it more, is over. But the most interesting thing here may be the new contract Tufts has...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:21:19 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tufts Medical Vs. Blue Cross: The Hospital/Health Insurance Wars Get Nasty]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000298/tufts-medical-vs-blue-cross-the-hospital-health-insurance-wars-get-nasty/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tufts Medical Center has thrown down the gauntlet to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts by refusing to accept coverage unless the Blue agrees to hike reimbursement rates for Tufts doctors and the hospital itself. It's the latest acrimonious battle between insurance companies and hospitals -- but also a sign...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:32:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Abbott-AMO Deal, WellPoint Gets Whacked, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abbott buys American Medical Optics in $2.8 billion deal; WellPoint has its Medicare enrollment suspended over complaints; WellPoint expects $349 million in fourth-quarter investment losses; Medtronic pays $225 million for Ablation Frontiers; and more. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:26:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cigna's New Regional Exec Toes the Dartmouth Atlas Line -- Up To a Point]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health-insurance executives aren't known either for candor or for embracing the ideas of healthcare reformers, but the new leader of Cigna Healthcare's Mountain States Division recently managed to do both -- at least up to a point. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:55:12 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Electronic Medical Records: A New Backlash]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long ago as last April, some critics were already waging a campaign against the widespread use of electronic medical records. Now, with indications strong that the Obama administration plans to spend large sums on digital records, a new backlash against today's EMRs systems is building -- this time, from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:19:54 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Tufts vs. Blue Cross, $100B Stimulus for Healthcare, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tufts Medical plays chicken, threatens to cut off Blue Cross Blue Shield in Massachusetts; the federal economic stimulus bill could pump $100 billion into healthcare; nonprofit hospitals may be vulnerable to acquisition during the downturn; UnitedHealth subsidiary slammed for poor healthcare outsourcing service in Texas; and more. by David P....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:06:27 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cigna's Job Cuts: Latest Addition to the Healthcare Layoff Watch]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Cigna has now joined the roll of health-insurance companies who are busy cutting workers as the economy worsens and rising medical costs take their toll on profits and membership. To help keep track of the carnage, we've inaugurated the BNET Healthcare Layoff Watch. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shorter Boston Globe: How Elite Hospitals Rake in the Bucks]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/1000291/shorter-boston-globe-how-elite-hospitals-rake-in-the-bucks/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Top-tier hospitals in Massachusetts are raking in the bucks because they've convinced health-insurance companies to reimburse them at much higher rates than their competitors, the Boston Globe reports. But because the series clocks in at almost 15,000 words, we present the Just the Facts Edition of the emerging Massachusetts hospital...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:43:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Roundup: Stimulus for EMRs, Hospitals to Disclose Charity, and More]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expected economic-stimulus bill could contain $25 billion for healthcare IT, hospitals are bracing for more extensive disclosure of their charity care and community benefit, the credit crisis is raising the cost of interest-rate swaps frequently used by hospitals, and more. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:58:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Blues Remain on the Prowl]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health-insurance plans are increasingly in competition with nationwide giants like WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group, and sometimes lack the resources to invest in major IT projects. So it's no surprise that the Blues are still on the prowl for ways to get bigger, faster. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:11:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The End-of-Year Health-Insurance/Hospital Follies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2008 drew to a close, health-insurance providers and hospital systems once more drew swords over who would manage to force the other to eat the lion's share of rising medical costs. Most such clashes take place in comfortable obscurity, but a few manage to break into the news --...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:55:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WellCare's Alleged Medicaid Fraud: The Plaintiffs' Theory]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal and state agents raided the headquarters of WellCare Health Plans over a year ago, but the company has never specifically explained why, even though it's since sacked its previous management and announced it will restate several years of earnings. The complaint in a class-action lawsuit against the company, however,...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Doctors Aren't Embracing Electronic Medical Records]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are doctors so slow to embrace electronic medical records? Simply put, most physicians aren't willing to take a financial hit to embrace digital patient records that might improve care. by David P. Hamilton]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:51:56 -0800</pubDate>
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