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We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

We constantly seek to improve the health and well-being of those in the uniformed services and their family members. Information sharing visits such as this afford us the opportunity to better understand our healthcare partners who strive to provide our beneficiaries the very best in patient care and technology,

We're trying to fit a new healthcare paradigm into an old payment system. It won't be pretty and it won't be easy, but we can do it if we do it together.

Thomson Delmar Learning provided us with the content we needed to expand our reach to other job functions within the hospital while we offer them the platform to provide the content. Through this acquisition, both organizations will join together to provide content in one format to various healthcare professionals who need mandatory training or clinical education.

What kind of healthcare service union would stand in the way of a cancer center in New England? That strikes me as the kind of union we don't want.

With computers at every bedside, patient medical records available online, and technology to review cases, the physicians at Pepin are uniquely positioned within the healthcare industry. Using GE's transformational medical technologies can help these physicians make faster and more informed decisions, streamline healthcare costs, reduce medical errors and enhance and improve the quality of patient care.

We will have trucks traveling around providing coverage of state arts, culture, business and healthcare events.

Filing for this patent gives notice that Premier Information is looking to define its position as an innovator and solution provider to the insurance and healthcare industries. It is a company wide commitment to develop the products and services...to display the kind of innovative technical leadership that creates customized, value added solutions for our clients.

The government has to spend more on education, healthcare and pensions to take the burden off individuals and give them more confidence to spend.

We see now that 85 percent of the population has access to primary healthcare services in camp settings. You see that more children are in school than ever before - something like 300,000 - and 46 percent are girls. Water supply and sanitation is something like 70 percent of the population. That is something we have never seen, and we struggled very hard to build that up.

You cannot design a healthcare consumerism program with a cookie-cutter approach. There are many variables an employer needs to consider when planning a healthcare program, including employee demographics, number of locations, company culture and the presence of chronic conditions in their workforce. Understanding these variables is critical to making healthcare consumerism work.

We wanted to do some special things to help celebrate. I've had the occasion to frequently visit the Plymouth County Historical Museum. As I've looked around, I've noted there really isn't a rich deposit of medical and healthcare history there.

There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.

There is some concern with the strength of the economy going forward, ... and that's why you are seeing the economically sensitive names getting hit especially hard. What few gainers you see today are mostly in healthcare and other defensive sectors.

What we are seeing is an unraveling of the way we finance healthcare in the United States. It is coming apart at the edges, and those edges are small business and low-wage workers. The levees are breaking.

Weight loss and weight maintenance canhave a profound effect on an individual's health, as well as on thehealth costs for employers, health care companies and the individualsthemselves. Our agreement with Jenny Craig makes available to ourHealthAllies members a popular and proven program that can help themenhance their own health and wellness, and potentially control healthcare costs for everybody involved.

This new support will improve our ability to use electronic healthcare data to enhance public health capabilities in detecting outbreaks of serious infectious diseases. We are particularly interested in recognizing unusual patterns of illness at the earliest possible time.

We are very pleased to have Quest Diagnostics participate in National Preferred Provider Network (NPPN). This expanded relationship is a huge benefit to our NPPN membership and supports our commitment to help reduce healthcare costs for all of our customers. Implementation was completed in January.

We are going to get ourselves in trouble at Metro with our healthcare program if we do not get some of those dollars made up.

We had solid performance in systems, middleware and business transformation services, which grew over 25 percent for the year. Our cash position remains very strong, and we saw impressive growth in important parts of our business. We continued to make gains in emerging markets and in important sectors such as healthcare and transportation, and our microprocessors are powering the fast-growing home entertainment market.

Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Everyone wants to solve the problem. Certainly the employer community is right there -- the employer community is paying the bill of having the highest healthcare costs in the country. But let's not make a mistake that will endanger local employers.

Based on a UAW summary of the recent healthcare agreement, we think the eventual savings from the deal will only be in the seven billion dollar range.

As the WJP Medical Foundation is the recognized leader in the dissemination of the latest and most trusted healthcare information in China, it follows that they would become a leading source of the latest diagnostics and therapeutics. WJP wants to further improve the healthcare environment in China by ensuring that the leading facilities in China have access to these new emerging world-class products.

Cross Country is probably the pick of the week. It's a combination of healthcare and employment services.

Ending 2005 with the highest wages for skilled technology professionals recorded in five years is a high water mark for the industry. Despite major economic setbacks during the year, the technology industry has demonstrated its strength and confirmed its power to propel the employment market in a positive direction. Between the growing need for information security experts, highly-knowledgeable ERP and Internet-based technology professionals, and advanced healthcare technology to help answer the call of aging baby boomers, our outlook for the technology employment market and its wages is optimistic for 2006.

Eliminating disparities in all aspects of healthcare particularly organ transplantation is an indisputable goal for all of us, ... This conference is an important first step and we look forward to not only assessing the problem but also examining viable solutions to eliminate the disparities.

Due to the aging population in the U.S. and the gradual change in the healthcare service model from clinical intervention to preventive care, home-based healthcare services demonstrate strong long-term growth potential.

Dr. Spain and Cardiology of Tulsa are helping lead the way to a more connected healthcare community. By informing and connecting physicians through the use of electronic medical records, they are able to provide a more efficient and patient-friendly healthcare experience.

Early Health will mean more accurate diagnosis, earlier, more effective treatment and better outcomes for more patients and will be key to our efforts to improve cost efficiencies for the healthcare industry. These new advertisements are just one of the ways to illustrate how GE Healthcare is helping clinicians re-imagine new ways to diagnose, inform and treat - so that their patients can live their lives to the fullest.

European debt purchasing and receivables management market leaders will generate strong interest in 2006 due to the expected growth potential of those markets over the next several years. In the U.S., small and mid-sized agencies that are specialized in fast-growing niche markets, such as the government, healthcare and commercial industries, will also be considered attractive acquisition targets by larger players that are in need of diversifying their service offerings and market focus.

The UN is going to stay in Haiti for a long time. It should be much more involved in improving healthcare and education than peacekeeping.

These stock option grants are an insult and add injury in a market of skyrocketing healthcare costs in America ... we find this intolerable and unsustainable.

The surveyor will ask to speak with the primary healthcare decision maker in the home. Research suggests that in three out of four cases that's going to be the mom.

Seldom mentioned, the totality of these expenses ultimately falls exclusively on the consumer, since each malpractice award translates ultimately to increased malpractice insurance premiums, which, in turn, translates to either higher healthcare costs, fewer physicians (with less competitive pricing pressure), or both.

Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

After years of working with multiple software vendors in this industry, we're excited about this opportunity to sign an exclusive agreement with a long-standing and financially secure partner with a diverse range of customers nationwide. This partnership links us with a leader in enterprise behavioral healthcare software.

The National Cancer Institute wants to make certain the results of clinical research are rapidly disseminated to healthcare providers and patients, to ensure life-enhancing cancer treatments are widely available.

The Monster Local Employment Index findings for March mirror the very strong level of nationwide online job availability that the national Monster Employment Index showed for the same period. The broad growth in employer demand measured across nearly all of the top cities in the country is another positive sign of U.S. labor market strength in the first quarter of 2006. The Index is also showing a greater number of online opportunities within the business and healthcare sectors, which are key indicators of the health of the U.S. economy.

Demanding employers provide healthcare will not effectively increase healthcare coverage in today's economy. Instead of mandates on businesses, lawmakers need to look toward consumer-driven solutions that won't result in job loss or reduced income for the nation's low-skilled employees.

Competition among hospitals results in lower prices, greater quality of care, and increased innovation for healthcare consumers. The antitrust division will continue to be vigilant in ensuring that hospitals and other healthcare providers do not unreasonably deprive consumers of the benefits of competition.

Deploying an Electronic Health Record successfully is not just about software. It's about understanding how physicians, associated caregivers, support personnel and key processes need to change to get the software used. University of Florida Jacksonville Physicians, Inc. designed a modular deployment that fit their unique needs and the results speak for themselves. UFJPI is setting the standard for high quality healthcare in the State of Florida.

A number of other U.S. companies have already taken similar action in the face of these rising costs and increasing global competition. In particular, U.S. healthcare costs continue to rise at high rates. When these benefits were conceived decades ago, no one could have foreseen the explosive cost inflation that we have been experiencing in recent years. These costs are simply not sustainable.

Approximately 30 percent of clinical labs either lack insight into their outreach profitability or know that their outreach programs are unprofitable. As healthcare organizations face ever-increasing market pressure to create additional revenue and profitability, clinical labs need customized information solutions to better manage their outreach programs, as well as help them reduce the cost of technology maintenance and ownership. Horizon Lab Financials meets these challenges and helps clinical labs compete and succeed in the outreach and reference market.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

As healthcare continues to lead as a topic of national concern and debate, Microsoft is committed to working with individuals, organizations and government drivers to leverage the role that technology can play in achieving healthcare transformation. With so much truly innovative work being done with our technology throughout the healthcare system, these awards are a way for us to showcase some of the leaders driving remarkable results in efficiency and patient care -- results that we think are capable of inspiring broader change across the industry.

Asia is an ideal growth environment ... with competitively-priced quality healthcare service in major tourist cities.

As a board member, I am pleased to be a part of an association that is changing the way healthcare is delivered and managed in this country.

As a nationally recognized leader, UAB saw the opportunity to take its regional campus faculty and physicians in training to the next level of healthcare delivery. UAB is delivering on their mission of being one of America's premier teaching, research and healthcare institutions.

The broad growth in employer demand measured across nearly all of the top cities in the country is another positive sign of U.S. labor strength in the first quarter of 2006. The Monster Index is also showing a greater number of online opportunities within the business and healthcare sectors, which are key indicators of the health of the U.S. economy.

Auto execs are grappling with the dynamics of increased competition, rising commodity and healthcare costs and the need to invest in new manufacturing facilities. All of this is leading to a rather bleak outlook on profitability through the rest of this decade and a trend toward greater consolidation.

This is an exciting time when you see the time and energy spent in planning coming together. All of the staff is excited about creating a new healthcare experience which focuses on the surgical outcome desired by the patient and surgeon.

This budget has deceived the common man. The tax system is regressive. Heavy concessions have been granted to the corporate sector and spending on education and healthcare has not been increased to the expected levels.

This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising healthcare costs by approving safe and effective generic alternatives as soon as the law permits.

This integrated EMR improves the quality of care we provide with its instantaneous documentation of and accessibility to patient information. Quick access to patient information through all healthcare entry points is a definite benefit to our community.

This instrument will greatly minimize the transfer of urine containers, effectively increasing test accuracy and eliminating many of the problems associated with urine collection and transport. The portability of this device will also permit point-of-care testing in hospitals, and will enable healthcare professionals to transmit test data to mainline computers either through internal information systems or via e-mail.

This initiative has been gaining momentum ever since the Governor made his commitment to expand nursing education programs and increase the annual number of nursing graduates in our state. Comprehensive nurse training programs will help increase access to healthcare services for all Californians.

They've got $3.6 billion in pension and healthcare liabilities. The deal would make sense from a strategic point of view, but there are a lot of issues that would need to be addressed. It would attract pretty thorough scrutiny from the government.

This is the ideal relationship for us to disseminate reliable health care information to the largest number of medical professionals, hospitals and consumers. This venture initiates our long-term commitment to introduce world-class healthcare products and services to China.

This just threw the healthcare industry for a loop. The state and local health departments had to regroup.

There is truly a commitment to serving this patient population. And while there?s a cost associated with it, I have not seen any reluctance to purchase this equipment because healthcare organizations, the ones I work with, are very committed to providing quality care to those that they serve and also providing the proper equipment to protect the healthcare workers that take care of these patients. That?s the bottom line.

As more hospitals and health systems begin to witness the safety and security healthcare IT affords, Somerset increasingly is viewed as a national leader for its bold use of technology. Through innovation and commitment, the clinicians at Somerset are transforming the healthcare process.

A commitment to healthcare must represent more than a dedicated business unit servicing the retirement plans of healthcare organizations. The industry is currently facing significant challenges that will continue well into the future. We must be part of the solution and this partnership goes a long way in that regard.

It's at best embarrassing and at worst tragic that less than 50% of healthcare workers get vaccinated annually,

It was easy out of the gate for us, but then we learned some hard lessons early. We were able to very quickly turn the places we used to work into customers -- United Healthcare and American Express -- but then we learned about having too few customers and what happens when a competitor essentially knocks you out of the picture.

It reduces healthcare costs and enables employees to work better. It's also so much fun for everyone.

Do I agree with everything the governor does? No. But break down the things he has accomplished with education, healthcare and economic growth, and in a politically competitive state that has had wide Republican influence during his terms, and no one could argue that he's been out cutting ribbons.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

Economic growth can enable development if it is supplemented by public policies that encourage circulation of wealth, especially into crucial areas such as public healthcare and education.

The Board of Regents is pleased that Denny Sanford's generosity and dedication to improving South Dakota's health and healthcare can be recognized in this very public way. Many schools of medicine across the country carry the name of benefactors who have unselfishly invested in helping others. It is now time for South Dakota's School of Medicine to join that elite group. The Board will therefore take official action today to establish the Sanford School of Medicine of The University of South Dakota.

The attitude is much more inflammatory in the central and western part of the state than it is in the southeast, ... A lot of people are worse off financially than they were a year ago, paying more for things like healthcare and gasoline, and (the pay raise) really rubbed them the wrong way.

Supporting Day Kimball Hospital is very easy for the bank, ... The hospital is the central healthcare facility for Northeastern Connecticut and serves the medical needs of the 13 towns. Helping the golf tournament is one way we feel we contribute to the overall operation.

It's a multiyear agreement. We are pleased that St. Vincent has renewed their partnership with us. They share our commitment of quality affordable healthcare and so we're pleased to move on.

The use of small suppliers and those owned by minorities and women is an important way to promote competition and drive down the cost of healthcare for everyone. We feel it's important to share the knowledge our members have developed as they have worked with Premier in this important area.

Not much has changed. There are cosmetic changes but the solution is to help those in poverty have meaningful employment, healthcare and quality of life. Until that happens, there could be a riot here at any time.

Soaring healthcare costs in America are motivating clients to look abroad for quality dental services at reasonable prices.

Expanding access to contraception is the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, and Planned Parenthood continues to work with pharmacies throughout the country to improve access. Women should never have to worry about being denied contraception, which is basic healthcare for many American women.

The Johnson Controls growth strategy is driven by our customers' needs. These integration solutions will help healthcare organizations improve clinical outcomes, financial performance, and patient and staff satisfaction.

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

Increased IT spending, the imminent medical needs of baby boomers, and hungry drug pipelines have improved job opportunities for technology and healthcare professionals.

Individuals who cannot afford health insurance coverage can still have access to appropriate care provided by free health clinics. We are pleased to be able to fund better access to healthcare for the uninsured and underinsured and to help limit one of the cost drivers of premiums for the insured -- that is the use of hospitals for non-emergency care by the uninsured.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

If she is advocating for a positive healthcare agenda, it's not getting through to the governor. We were hoping for more progress.

If Prince Charles is going to seek to influence healthcare or science policy - especially without going through the normal peer review process - he must allow himself to be challenged in debate or interview, something that he has never done.

If you don't get it through your employer, you don't have many options for affordable coverage. That means you have huge numbers of people who don't have consistent, affordable access to the healthcare system.

If voters are upset about $3 gas and healthcare costs, they're ripe for a message that emphasizes fiscal discipline.

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

If you ask me what's on my wish list for 2006, Caponi continued, the first thing would be recognition that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. People without insurance or with bad insurance don't get treatment or they delay treatment until they must seek emergency care. If nothing else, that's not cost-effective. Emergency room treatment is the most expensive form of healthcare that exists.

In the high-growth healthcare market, you see companies trading at a premium multiple and they end up not performing. These companies are not just getting hit, they're getting hammered.

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

In the near future, our nation faces the daunting challenge of meeting the needs of growing numbers of older Americans ? including baby boomers nearing retirement age ? for nursing home, home health, and assisted living care. Healthcare leaders support strategies to spread these costs widely, rather than place the entire burden on individuals or families.

If you massage a baby when asleep or physically ill with a fever, the benefits are not the same. As long as your healthcare practitioner says yes, go for it.

In a hospital or healthcare delivery environment, you can?t see if something is sterile, nor can you test for something that is sterile. Because once you test for it, it?s no longer sterile and can?t be used.

Christ Hospital is known for offering exceptional healthcare. By withdrawing from the Alliance, Christ Hospital will be in a better position to further enhance its services and provide outstanding healthcare to Greater Cincinnati.

By transferring their expertise to local healthcare workers, these Fellows make lasting contributions to support health systems in communities ravaged by diseases. The Pfizer Global Health Fellows program represents an innovative collaboration between NGOs and the private sector to significantly improve the lives of people around the world in a sustainable way.

Cancer is a disease that touches many lives, and the proceeds from the luncheon will provide an excellent service towards increasing breast cancer prevention, ... I am pleased to be a part of the Methodist Healthcare Cancer Center Luncheon, and I am looking forward to my trip to Memphis.

Because these executives see a connection between their company health benefit plan, employee health, and workforce productivity, they have a vested interest in maintaining and improving employee health. There also may be a connection between providing healthcare information and improved workforce health.

Hospitals in particular and healthcare in general are interesting. It's key parts of the community and a fascinating business with interesting people.

When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, [Donald] Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And [Mike] Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.