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<description><![CDATA[Picking a specialist for a delicate medical procedure like a heart bypass could get a lot easier in the not-too-distant future.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/05/9226570-feds-to-allow-use-of-medicare-data-to-rate-doctors</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/05/9226570-feds-to-allow-use-of-medicare-data-to-rate-doctors</guid><category>us</category><category>medical</category><category>politics</category><category>report-cards</category><category>medical-report-cards</category><pubDate>Mon, 5 Dec 2011 17:51:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0f96d5e9-deb6-4da5-b062-69122c589d36.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="339" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0f96d5e9-deb6-4da5-b062-69122c589d36.jpg" width="120" height="181" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2005, file photo, Marilyn Tavenner is seen at a news conference in Richmond, Va. Picking a specialist for a risky medical procedure could soon get easier. The government announces that Medicare will finally allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, consumer groups and insurance companies to produce reports on local doctors and hospitals.    (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>