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...political activist with a track record for sensationalism." PhRMA went on to say "a review of America's health care system should be balanced, thoughtful and well-researched" before adding, "Unfortunately, you won't get that from Michael Moore." America's Health Insurance Plans, whose members include HMOs Aetna and Cigna, handed its own news releases last week emphasizing the need for "a uniquely American solution." Health Care America, a non-profit financed in part by pharmaceutical and hospital companies, held briefings to document the the long wait-times common to government-run healthcare, such as those run by France...
...based program that will enable all physicians in the U.S. to write electronic prescriptions for free. It will also let them check drug interactions and prevent illegible hand-writing--or smudged decimal points on dosages--from ending in disaster. The $100 million project, whose backers include Allscripts, Dell, Aetna and hospital groups, is targeting the 30% of M.D.s who write 80% of the country's 3.2 billion prescriptions a year. (Although 90% of the 550,000 doctors in the U.S. are online, fewer than 10% use software to write prescriptions.) "Our goal long term is to get the prescription pads...
...reasons is that doctors haven't invested in the needed technology, so it's being provided to them. The $100 million project has drawn support from a variety of partners, including Dell, Google, Aetna and numerous hospitals. "Our goal long-term is to get the prescription pads out of doctors' hands, to get them working on computers," says Scott Wells, a Dell vice-president of marketing. Google is designing a custom search engine with NEPSI to assist doctors looking for health data. Insurance companies such as Aetna have pledged to provide incentives for physicians using e-prescription systems...
...really was willing to cut deals. But he wanted the business world on notice that the days of freewheeling combination were over. And Morgan had reason to play ball with Roosevelt. Northern Securities was only one of the many trusts he had assembled. General Electric, Western Union, International Harvester, Aetna Insurance--he controlled them all. Just a year earlier, he had put together what was then the world's largest corporation, U.S. Steel, whose $1.4 billion in assets was equal to 7% of the nation's gross national product. Roosevelt recorded that in their meeting Morgan had asked him bluntly...
Ronald A. Williams ENSURING A HEALTHY TRANSITION Given that Aetna's stock was up more than 50% in 2005 alone under John Rowe, who is retiring, new CEO Ronald A. Williams has a tough act to follow. But rather than focus on the health insurer's Wall Street performance and the growth of its medical membership, which now tops 14 million, Williams is seeking to chip away at complex problems. "We have work to do with the 45 million people who are uninsured in this country," says Williams. To help bridge that gap, he is touting, among other initiatives...