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Here is your daily news to keep you well-informed:
Electronic-Records Goals Aren't Met by 80% of U.S. Hospitals More than 80 percent of hospitals have yet to achieve the requirements for the first stage of a $14.6 billion U.S. program to encourage doctors to adopt electronic medical records, the industry's largest trade group said. Business Week
Medicare's 'No-Pay' HAI Policy Reshifts Hospital Priorities What's been the impact of the 2008 law that empowered Medicare to refuse payment for additional care necessitated by so-called "never events" such as wrong-site surgeries and healthcare-associated infections that should never be allowed to happen? HealthLeaders Media
U.S. Health Care Spending High, But Quality Lags: Report Despite the fact that Americans spend more on their health care than citizens of 12 other developed nations, a new report finds that more does not necessarily equal better when it comes to quality of care. HealthDay
15 million of world's babies are born prematurely About 15 million premature babies are born every year - more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic. Associated Press
107 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 7 cities Federal authorities charged 107 doctors, nurses and social workers in seven cities with Medicare fraud Wednesday in a nationwide crackdown on unrelated scams that allegedly billed the taxpayer-funded program of $452 million -- the highest dollar amount in a single Medicare bust in U.S. history. CBS News
Drugs, FDA and Pharma
India's Dr Reddy's gets U.S. nod for osteoporosis drug Indian drugmaker Dr Reddy's Laboratories has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for selling ibandronate sodium tablets used to treat osteoporosis, the regulator's website showed on Thursday. Reuters
