Showing posts with label Healthcare Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare Reform. Show all posts
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Florida Legislature Passes Medicaid Reform | Sunshine State News

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Florida's Medicaid program will likely undergo fundamental and historic changes in the coming years, as the state Legislature passed a ...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

E. Jon Ritchie, M.D. (ocamsrazor) on Twitter

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E. Jon Ritchie, M.D. @ocamsrazor Big City Hospital General Internist. Mathematics & Programming. Medical Informatics & Medic...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...

Carole Eldridge, DNP (Nerdnurse) on Twitter

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Carole Eldridge, DNP @Nerdnurse Houston, TX College dean who embraces nursing, technology, health, online education, developing peop...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ)

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The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of healt...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Does screening and treating high cholesterol save money? KevinMD.com

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by Richard Young, MD A commenter (I believe a physician) on one of my posts wrote the following: “I can prevent heart attacks and strokes ...

Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com

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Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to r...

N.Y. Taxpayers May Pay Big $$$ for Heart Transplant for Convicted Rapist - FoxNews.com

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Taxpayers may pay $800,000 to give a life-saving heart transplant to an upstate rapist whose crime of incest was so "grotesquely crimi...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Supreme Court punts on fast-track review of healthcare law - The Hill's Healthwatch

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By Julian Pecquet - 04/18/11 10:36 AM ET T...

More senior citizens are dying at home - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

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By John Dorschner jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com After years of experts and patient...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Drugs: Spending on prescriptions is slowing - Health Key

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mericans consume a lot of prescription drugs. And they seem especially fond of those to lower their cholesterol, relieve their heartburn, c...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Home Page - National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

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Learn About the NPA → The Mission → The Goals → Social Determinants Get Involved → Become a Partner → Find an OMH ...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Checking Your Medical Records - More Important Than Ever Before

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Months ago, grand discussions of the shift from paper medical records to digital, electronic health and medical records, was all the rage. ...

Partnership for Patients - Win, Win, Win for American Healthcare

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It's called the Partnership for Patients .  (I like it already - it's focused on patients.)  It's a program being developed by...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Patient complaints do not fit the primary care office visit

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by Kevin Pho, MD Primary care physicians often have to see patients with a litany of issues.  Often within a span of a 15-minute office vis...

McDonald's Medicine: Too Impatient to Wait for Care, Time

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Doctor asks, "Why did you come to the ER today ?" This question — emphasizing today is common practice in emergency departme...

Is the US healthcare system too litigious or too careless? | boxcuttersinc

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In a recent study published in  Health Affairs , researchers at the University of Utah and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement found ...

Should Emergency Departments Turn Away Nonurgent Patients? - TIME

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A few weeks ago, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) launched a campaign to derail proposed policies to reduce the use of ...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Racial Disparities Remain for Health Care for Vets - MSN Health - High Blood Pressure

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Gaps in care for black and white U.S. veterans have been reduced over the past decade as the VA Health Care System improved access to scree...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Battle Hymn of the California Nurse, by Marilou Morgan RN

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