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December 20, 2006

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In This Edition

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1. News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up for Research

2. News: Insurance Plans Cooperate to Provide Online Health Info

3. News: Gates Foundation Gives $83M to Fight Malaria

4. Identity Theft: Providence Health's Serious Pain

5. News: Biomet to Be Bought by Private Equity Group

6. News: IBM Develops Technology to Check Drug Authenticity

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Health Care Industry Center Update

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1. News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up for Research

A Washington-based nonprofit think tank and advocacy group says

the Nationwide Health Information Network should be set up to conduct

clinical research.

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2. News: Insurance Plans Cooperate to Provide Online Health Info

A week after several large employers announced plans to create online

personal health records for millions of their employees, large insurers said

they would do the same thing for their members.

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3. News: Gates Foundation Gives $83M to Fight Malaria

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $83.5 million to fight malaria

by paying for better controls, vaccine research and prevention of a disease

that kills more than a million people a year.

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4. Identity Theft: Providence Health's Serious Pain

When 10 backup tapes and disks were stolen from the back of a

Providence Health & Services employee's minivan, thieves potentially

gained access to the private information of 365,000 patients. Now,

one year and $7 million later, the health care provider remains mired

in the aftermath.

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5. News: Biomet to Be Bought by Private Equity Group

The orthopedic device maker will be acquired by a private equity

consortium for about $10.9 billion, eight months after putting itself

on the auction block.

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6. News: IBM Develops Technology to Check Drug Authenticity

IBM says it has developed technology to help drug distributors,

manufacturers and retailers prevent counterfeit drugs from making

their way into the market.

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