This Week's Healthcare Online News
Fierce Health Payer
Study: Employer-sponsored coverage dropped 10%
Apr,12,2013
by+ Dina Overland
In more evidence that the health insurance industry's landscape is transforming, a new study finds employer-based coverage, once the cornerstone of the market, has "eroded substantially."
Only 60 percent of Americans now receive coverage through their employer, a decrease of 10 percent in the last decade or 12 million fewer people, according to a study released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Meanwhile, premiums have been increasing with the average family premiums costing more than $14,000 in 2011, a 125 percent surge from the $5,000 average in 2000.
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ModernHealthcare.com
Challenging gene patents Myriad ruling will impact personalized medicine
Apr,13,2103
by:+Jaimy Lee
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in the Myriad Genetics gene patenting case, whose outcome could have major financial consequences for healthcare providers and patients and help determine the future affordability of gene-based medical technologies and personalized medicine. The case is also likely to have broader implications for healthcare providers that are grappling with how to better understand and incorporate genomic medicine into day-to-day care.
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Med City News
Doctors and nurses have figured out LinkedIn, now we need more researchers
Apr,12,2013
By:+Veronica Combs
Simon Zhang, data analyst and former neurosurgeon, reports that there are now one million doctors and nurses in the US using the social networking site.
What are they doing? Looking for a new job, commenting on particularly good insights from MedCityNews or complaining about long hours in one of these groups.
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ModernHealthcare.com
Emphasis on education Higher levels of health literacy critical to better healthcare outcomes
Apr,06,2103
by:+Maureen McKinney
When Dr. Ruth Parker travels around the country talking to providers about the need to focus on health literacy, she rarely encounters anyone who doesn't agree that it's an issue with serious implications for healthcare outcomes.
That's in sharp contrast to a decade ago, she says, when few understood the scope of the problem or the way in which patients' poor understanding of health information could lead to more errors, worse adherence to treatment plans and higher healthcare costs.
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