ALSO NOTED: Humana buys insurer for $188M; Pennsylvania pays for remote monitoring; and much more...

> Humana has set plans to buy life and health insurer KMG America Corp for about $188 million. Article

> Pennsylvania has become the first state to reimburse home care providers for electronically monitoring patients. Article

> Pennsylvania is also in the process of cracking down on a Pittsburgh-area hospital, which has only a few months to live unless it meets licensing requirements. Article

> Here's a piece contending that regional health information organizations shouldn't exist. FierceHealthIT

> An Oregon IT worker is suing the hospital that fired him after hospital data tapes and disks were stolen from his car. FierceHealthIT

And Finally...  With this technique, we're a step closer to having computers actually make a diagnosis. Article

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