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NIB Upbeat Despite Medicare Changes: Australia's only listed private health insurer, NIB Holdings Ltd, on Monday confirmed its full year market guidance as the company's share price fell sharply ahead of changes to the Medicare levy surcharge threshold.The federal government on Sunday confirmed it would double the surcharge threshold for singles' annual incomes from...; Tags: Medicare, Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, AAP; News items 2008-05-12
As Hospitals Hit the Skids, Odds of a Healthcare Crisis Rise: It's not just big insurers who are sinking into the swamp these days -- hospitals are slipping as well. And while it's a little early to know for sure, the problems of health plans seem quite likely to make those of hospitals even worse. Yesterday, Tenet Healthcare...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Tenet Healthcare Corp., Health Care, Nothing, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-07
How Insurance Really Works, Courtesy of WellPoint: Give WellPoint credit for clarity, if nothing else. Its first-quarter earnings were terrible, but the company's outline of its plans to bounce back -- reasonable or not -- also offered a revealing window into how insurers actually think about the business of providing health coverage. With virtually...; Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, WellPoint, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Three Healthcare Stories From the Week That Was: With the week drawing to a close, here are three healthcare stories you might have overlooked: Thirteen years after House Democrat Louise Slaughter first proposed it, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, finally passed both houses of Congress. President Bush has pledged to sign it. The...; Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-25
The Week That Was in Healthcare: As we start a new week, here's a quick wrapup of important healthcare stories that you might have missed in the week that was: Retail health clinics -- often staffed by non-physicians and set up in big-box retailers or drugstores -- have been touted as one way...; Tags: Program, Patient, Hospital, Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Data Management, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-12

Good News Not Totally Absent in Healthcare: Medical costs continue to rise much faster than general inflation, the insurance safety net is fraying as health plans and hospitals push the financial burden of being ill back onto the sick themselves, and even people who get their insurance through work have seen their premium contributions rise ten times...; Tags: Hospital, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Can You Fight Healthcare Waste?: Most everyone agrees that the U.S. healthcare system is tremendously wasteful, but few people appreciate just how much of that inefficiency is baked into the business models of health plans and hospitals alike. No matter how conscientious the management of any individual company, efforts to cut costs and improve service...; Tags: Health Care, Hopkins, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Drugmakers Win Appeal Over Alzheimer Curbs: By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters UK) - An appeals court on Thursday ruled the country's healthcare cost-effectiveness watchdog had acted unfairly in the way it decided to curb access to Alzheimer's drugs, in a victory for drugmakers and patients. The move will let manufacturers renew their...; Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Patient, Health Care, NICE, QALY, Johnson & Johnson, Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc., Pfizer Inc.; News items 2008-05-01
Aetna's Ron Williams Speaks -- And Actually Says Something: This Fortune interview with Aetna CEO Ron Williams is a few days old, but as it just popped up in my RSS reader, it is, as they say, new to me. Since it's pretty rare to see someone like Williams candidly discuss the health-plan business, its problems and some intriguing...; Tags: Physician, Decision Support, Aetna Inc., Health Care, Dermatologist, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Flextime is Good for Employees' Health, Too: The Find: Flextime has been shown to improve productivity and aid retention; now researchers have found it improves health and reduces absenteeism as well. The Source: Recent research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine published in the Psychologist-Manager Journal. ...; Tags: Vertical industries, Workforce management, Jessica Stillman, flex-time, health care, absence; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Insurers vs. Drug Dangers: Cheap but Ineffective?: Health insurers are hoping to ride to the government's rescue on drug safety. With various pharmaceutical scandals still in the headlines (Vioxx, Avandia and Vytorin chief among them), drug safety has been Topic A in certain corners of the healthcare world, especially with the Food and Drug...; Tags: Wall Street Journal, FDA, Insurance Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Insurance, Benefits, Healthcare, Federal Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Government, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Five Major Challenges for a $2 Trillion Industry: Just about everyone has their own set of beefs with the U.S. healthcare system. Some start with the number of folks who go without healthcare, usually with no choice in the matter -- that's some 47 million people right there. Escalating costs are another huge concern: Not only do Americans...; Tags: Patient, Industry, Insurance Company, Health Care, Jack Wennberg, Doctors, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-08
Cognitive Dissonance on Pharma Ghostwriting: Yesterday's news on Merck's prolific use of ghostwriters to produce medical-research articles yielded lots of coverage, much of it highly critical. Still, there was a fair bit of cognitive dissonance in the media, which couldn't seem to decide if Merck's actions amounted to venial or mortal sins. ...; Tags: Physician, Agent, Health Care, Health Care Facility, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Real Estate, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Sage First-half Profit Beats Forecasts: By Erica Billingham LONDON (Reuters UK) - Sage Group SGE, Britain's biggest software company, posted first-half underlying profit above analysts' forecasts and said it was confident for the full year, boosting its shares in brisk trading. Sage, which sells business management software and services to...; Tags: Revenue, Health Care, U.K., Sage Healthcare, Operational Accounting, Finance, Oukbs, US; News items 2008-05-08
Glaxo Wins FDA Approval For Wider Advair Use: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have said GlaxoSmithKline Plc's GSKGSK Advair is safe and effective to more widely treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD, the drugmaker said on Wednesday. Glaxo's approval comes the same day as rival AstraZeneca...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., patient, clinical trial, Pfizer Inc., London, Thomson Reuters Corp., health care, sales; News items 2008-04-30
Electronic Medical Records: Bad for Health?: Electronic medical records could let patients travel freely to doctors of their choice, improve their odds of getting the right care in emergencies and reduce medical errors, duplicated tests and unnecessary prescriptions. They're also the standard in most industrialized nations as well as U.S. healthcare systems such as the Cleveland...; Tags: Electronic Record, Patient, Physician, Electronic Health Record, Health Care, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-29
WellPoint Posts Lower Quarterly Profit: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Health insurer WellPoint Inc WLP on Wednesday said first-quarter profit slumped on high medical costs, including in its Medicare plans for the elderly, and further cut its 2008 forecast. Net income fell to $588.1 million, or $1.07 per share,...; Tags: Insurance, HEALTHCARE, insurance company, Medicare, New York, health care, quarterly profit, net income, Thomson Reuters Corp., industry; News items 2008-04-23
Medicare Ups the Ante on Medical Mistakes -- But Risks Going Too Far: Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing nine more conditions for which it won't fully reimburse hospitals, including surgical infections, wild swings...; Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Incentive, Patient, Hospital, Medicare, Health Care, Roy Poses, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Cash Up Front or Else -- Why Hospitals Are Gouging Their Patients: People who've just been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease already have plenty of things to worry about. Now comes one more unexpected concern: Many large hospitals are demanding up-front payment before they'll admit patients for cancer treatment and other expensive care. This WSJ story is a classic...; Tags: Payment, Patient, Hospital, Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Healthcare, David P. Hamilton; Blog posts 2008-04-28
A Zero-Injury Workplace: A mid-sized insurance firm had a major fire in one of its prime real estate properties. The construction firm hired to rebuild the building advised the company that according to their actuality forecasts, one person would die during the reconstruction. First defined an injury as any job-related health threat that...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, health care, job, health insurance, absence, real estate, insurance, team, performance, tool; Case studies