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Google Wants to Create a 'Baseline' for Human Health - Mashable


Medical Daily

Google Wants to Create a 'Baseline' for Human Health
Mashable
Google will turn its massive computing power loose on the data to look for biomarkers that could help medical researchers spot disease and health issues sooner. The project is not meant to turn into a specific commercial product or service, but Google ...
Google's New Moonshot Project: the Human BodyWall Street Journal
Google X Collecting Genetic Data for 'Baseline' Health ProjectPC Magazine
Google Wants to Build a Model of Perfect Human HealthEntrepreneur
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The drug that's forcing America's most important – and uncomfortable – health ... - Washington Post (blog)

The drug that's forcing America's most important – and uncomfortable – health ...
Washington Post (blog)
Expensive specialty drugs aren't new to health care. But Sovaldi stands out because it is aimed at helping millions of Americans who carry hepatitis C, and a large share of those infected are low-income and qualify for government coverage. Its arrival ...

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Opportunities For Entrepreneurs In Health Care - Forbes

Opportunities For Entrepreneurs In Health Care
Forbes
The number of people without health insurance in the U.S. declined by 20%-25%, due largely to Medicaid expansion plus the exchanges. I doubt this expansion will be rolled back, and I expect that over time the “red” states will come to the table in one ...

Baidu's Health Cloud Aims To Be An App Store For Distance Health Management - Forbes


Forbes

Baidu's Health Cloud Aims To Be An App Store For Distance Health Management
Forbes
Baidu Baidu, a Chinese Internet company that is often compared with Google, just announced its entry into health management industry through the launch of Jiankangyun. The company had kept its lips so tight that the plan must come as a bombshell to ...

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The GOP's 20-Year War on Health Care - Daily Beast


The Atlantic

The GOP's 20-Year War on Health Care
Daily Beast
Then 20 million, then 30 million, on up to the 46 million figure we often saw bandied about before the Affordable Health Care was enacted (10 million new Americans are insured as a result of it—a very respectable dent, for just one year). So, 30 years ...
The Lawyer Who Helped Spark This Week's Affordable Care Act RulingsWall Street Journal
Today's Court Decision Might Make Health Insurance Unaffordable in the ...The Atlantic
An Ominous Health Care RulingNew York Times
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Editorial Spotlight: Aging region changes health needs - The Journal News | LoHud.com

Editorial Spotlight: Aging region changes health needs
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress has studied the health-care industry in the Hudson Valley, and looked at projections of what aging baby boomers will need in the next decades to meet their medical needs. "We figured the boomers meant this wave of ...

Why nurses are the new auto workers - The Economist (blog)


The Economist (blog)

Why nurses are the new auto workers
The Economist (blog)
CAR manufacturing was the defining industry of the 20th century. In the 21st it is health care. Health spending comprised 17% of America's GDP in 2012. About one in ten workers are employed in the health sector. These workers have the crucial job of ...

Health insurance rebates coming to consumers in Carolinas - Asheville Citizen-Times


Reuters

Health insurance rebates coming to consumers in Carolinas
Asheville Citizen-Times
More than $21 million in health insurance rebates will be coming to consumers in the Carolinas from companies the federal government says spent too many premium dollars on profits and red tape last year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
Health Insurance Companies Refund $15M to Mass. ConsumersBoston.com
How your marketing can succeed in the confusing new world of health carePuget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
Health Insurers Set To Give Out More Obamacare RefundsHuffington Post
Los Angeles Daily News -Greenville News -Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
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Health insurance - The Economist


Wall Street Journal

Health insurance
The Economist
Obamacare requires all Americans to have health insurance or pay a fine, and obliges insurers to charge the sick and the healthy the same premium. It urges states to create exchanges where individuals can shop for insurance. To make that insurance ...
A 2014 Health-Care Strategy: FreedomWall Street Journal
Two Americas on Health Care, and Danger of Further DivisionNew York Times
Today's Court Decision Might Make Health Insurance Unaffordable in the ...The Atlantic
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State cannot accept more low-income enrollees for health care program now - Indianapolis Star

State cannot accept more low-income enrollees for health care program now
Indianapolis Star
Indiana has received permission from the federal government to stop new enrollment for now in the current Healthy Indiana Plan that provides health care coverage for low-income Hoosiers. The reason is that Indiana's cigarette tax, which supports costs ...

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