Obama to Sign Veterans' Health Care Overhaul
ABC News
Veterans are expected to have an easier time getting government-paid health care from local doctors under a bill that President Barack Obama is set to sign into law Thursday. The $16.3 billion measure also allows the Veterans Affairs Department to hire ...
What? Iowa State Fair opens with a ... health walk?
DesMoinesRegister.com
It was a stroll of less than 30 minutes but, Rich noted, was "all uphill and very, very healthy." State curators and historians Jerome Thompson and Jessica Rundlett commanded the bullhorn to point out historical highlights along the path -- comparing ...
Wall Street Journal
Small Firms Hit by Big Changes in Health Coverage
Wall Street Journal
Raymond Pezonella currently receives health coverage for himself and roughly 30 workers at his Reno, Nevada, engineering firm through a local builders' association. He pays about $9,000 a month into the plan, known as an Association Health Plan, or AHP ...
Forbes
McKesson On Tour: Local Health In Every City
Forbes
Providing quality health care begins at the local local level, with individuals and communities evaluating how people want, need and really access care. One company believes that its ability to bridge the conversation between payers, providers ...
Statewide health network offers access, quality
Appleton Post Crescent
It is similar to networks that health insurance buyers have come to know, but larger. The six organizations' service areas include about 90 percent of the state's population. A member who lives in Green Bay, for example, can see a doctor at ThedaCare ...
Aurora Health Care, five other Wisconsin health care leaders forming statewide ...Milwaukee Business Journal
Six Wisconsin health care systems form statewide networkMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gundersen, five other health systems join to improve care, cut costsLa Crosse Tribune
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Medical tune-up: How to be fit and healthy like Hoda at 50
Today.com
Maybe you don't feel fabulous about turning 50, but if you want to stay fit and healthy at 50 and beyond, you need to take charge of your health. Hoda Kotb, who is hitting that big milestone on Aug. 9, got a medical exam with the help of NBC chief ...
WJLA
Boost for vets' health: Obama signs new VA law at Ft. Belvoir
WJLA
Expanding the VA staff by hiring thousands of doctors, nurses and mental health counselors - another key component of the law - will take months to get underway and years to complete, VA officials said. Opening 27 new clinics across the country will ...
89.3 KPCC
Insurers Launch Huge Health-Records Info Exchange
Inc.com
Two California insurers announced Tuesday that they are partnering for an ambitious project to establish one of the nation's largest health-information exchanges, an effort they hope will reduce duplication and improve patient outcomes. The not-for ...
Health data exchange a first for CaliforniaSacramento Business Journal
HEALTH CARE: Insurers will pool patients' dataPress-Enterprise
Anthem, Blue Shield Announce Development of Health Data ExchangeCalifornia Healthline
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TechCrunch
When Wearable Health Trackers Meet Your Doctor
TechCrunch
Editor's note: Ben Maximilian Heubl, is a tech blogger, a data journalist (data journalism ambassador for Infogr.am), digital health geek and technology advocate and speaker. Ben founded a European chapter of the non-for profit organization Health 2.0 ...
Fox News
Fewer Uninsured Face Fines as Health Law's Exemptions Swell
Wall Street Journal
The architects of the health law wanted most Americans to carry insurance or pay a penalty. But an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation said most of the uninsured will qualify for one or more exemptions.
Millions of uninsured Americans exempt from ObamaCare penalties in 2016 ...Fox News
Narrow Networks Still A Trouble Spot For Health Law Plans, Experts SayKaiser Health News