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By DR. STEPHEN KARDOS President Obama should be commended for addressing the challenge that’s facing our nation’s health care system. While Democrats and Republicans agree that the health system is broken (since 1975, per person annual health spending has grown…
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Op-Ed: Health Care Re-invention and Personal Responsibility More Critical to Reform than Government Intervention
FRIDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — The beginnings of legislation to overhaul the nation’s health-care system started to emerge from Capitol Hill this week, raising hope among some health-reform advocates that this may, at long last, be the year that Congress enacts a law to help America’s uninsured and make health care more affordable.
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Congress Braces for Showdown Over Health-Care Reform (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Earlier this year, a remarkable commentary in JAMA suggested major reconsideration of the relationships among professional medical associations (PMAs) and health care corporations.(1) Because of the influence of PMAs on clinical care, education, research, and policy, Rothman et al suggested that these organizations sever most of their financial ties to corporations such as pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies. The authors suggested that the only acceptable payments to PMAs from these companies are those for advertising in publications that is clearly labeled as such, and advertising exhibits in meetings, again that is clearly labeled. Furthermore, the authors suggested that people with current or recent (within the last two years) relationships with such corporations ought not to serve as officers or trustees of PMAs, and ought not to serve on program or practice guideline committees
President Obama’s ambitious drive to overhaul the nation’s $2.3 trillion health-care system cleared a key Senate committee yesterday. But the administration was promptly buffeted by criticism from some of the industry players and moderate Democrats it has courted for months, calling into question the prospects for a bipartisan landmark bill.
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Senate Panel Advances Health-Care Overhaul (Washington Post)
Promotional Video The Salvation Army Bell Shelter Bell, CA © Nikole Lim, KODesigns Bell Shelter the largest homeless shelter west of the Mississippi – operates a comprehensive program that offers transitional care for up to 350 homeless men and women.
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WASHINGTON – House Democrats are moving ahead with sweeping health care legislation that would tax the wealthy and require Americans to buy affordable insurance as President Barack Obama prods a Senate committee chairman to act quickly on a companion bill.
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AP sources: Obama pushes Congress for quick action on health care as House prepares to act (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
SEATTLE, July 14 /PRNewswire/ — Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation, one of the nation’s leading Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Milliman Care Guidelines, LLC, A Milliman Company, to use the Care Guidelines for Medicare utilization and quality reviews in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and for Medicaid utilization and quality …
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Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation QIO Uses Milliman Care Guidelines(R) for Medicare, Medicaid Reviews (redOrbit)
Tomorrow I have the pleasure of being a guest on This Week in Law (TWiL) hosted by Denise Howell ( @dhowell ) Denise is one of the pioneers of law bloggers (blawgers) who blogs over at Bag and Baggage . TWiL Episode 26 will focus on Health Care, Technology and VRM. Joining me on the show will be Doc Searls ( @dsearls ) author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, etc.
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TWiL Episode 26: Health Care and VRM
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday claimed progress in talks on forming a public competitor to private health insurers, though senators appeared to make little headway on finding a way to pay for health-care legislation.
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US Senate Democrats Suggest Progress Made On Health-Care Bill (Nasdaq)
WASHINGTON — The deals, trumpeted loudly by the White House, would each help pay for an overhaul of the health care system. First, it was a broad consortium of health industry groups — doctors, hospitals, drug makers and insurers, all promising to slow the growth of medical spending by 1.5 percent.
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Lots of deals being cut on health care reform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
With health care legislation at a crossroads, the nation’s hospitals are near agreement with a key lawmaker and the White House to pick up part of the cost of President Obama’s plan for expanded coverage, officials said Monday. The precise size of any deal was not available, although several days ago, talks were focused in the area of $155 billion over a decade. These officials said under the …
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Top Democrat, hospitals near deal on health care costs (The Washington Times)
The coverage in the 11 days that have passed since Michael Jackson’s death has served as a cultural opiate, a chance for Americans to forget the recession, the nation’s two wars and the debate about health care — and travel (literally in the case of NBC and CNN) to Neverland, where they could see endless news clips of Jackson moonwalking and legal analysis about the future of his estate.
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With memorial today, Michael Jackson’s death crowds out other news (Seattle Times)
By the best count, only 1.5% of the nation’s roughly 6,000 hospitals use a comprehensive electronic medical record system. Even that statistic belies how hard it will be for health care to jettison its 19th-century filing system by 2014, the federal government’s goal despite the $19 billion that the economic stimulus package is providing to help doctors start.
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Paperless health care? A hospital’s long journey (USA Today)
This question was recently posed to me and I could not help but jump at the chance to formulate a response. From my personal experience, there are several aspects of the shortage of nursing that lean healthcare can address: Waste Nurse Turnover Capacity/ Demand Mismatch (and I am sure there are others) WASTE As mentioned by …
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Can lean healthcare help to improve shortage of nursing staff?
Congress returned Monday from its July Fourth break trying to make significant progress on health-care reform before the August recess. The Democrat-controlled House and Senate have separate plans and are attempting to hold floor votes before the break. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer attempted this weekend to reaffirm the House’s commitment to swift action.
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Congress returns to health-care issue (The Washington Times)
WASHINGTON – Staring at the camera, Shona Holmes says a brain tumor would have killed her had she relied on her Canadian, government-run health plan that would have provided treatment far too late. “Now, Washington wants to bring Canadian-style health care to the U.S.,” a narrator says darkly.
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AdWatch: In TV war over health care overhaul, some ads hit dramatic but deceptive tone (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
As the fight to achieve health care reform heats up, we can’t lose sight of the real goal: providing every American with access to high quality, medically necessary, health and medical services. To make reform work, the new health program must be affordable for the federal and state governments, for employers, and, most importantly, for health care consumers. Affordable premiums: Insurers will no longer be able to deny coverage to people based on pre-existing conditions or to charge them more based on health care conditions, health care usage, or gender
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Affordability – the Hidden Issue in the Health Care Reform Debate
A look at health care legislation taking shape in the Democratic-controlled House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system, cover nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and reduce costs. Many of the details are still being negotiated and any final health care bill would have to meld proposals from the House and Senate.
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A look at health care plans in Congress (AP via Yahoo! News)
Today I am giving a presentation with Jud DeLoss on the topic of “PHRs, Health 2.0 and the Impact of Social Media on Health Care” at the American Health Lawyers Association 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. As a part of the presentation we are sharing the slides from the presentation with the attendees via SlideShare .
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AHLA Annual Meeting 2009: PHRs, Health 2.0 and the Impact of Social Media on Health Care
In their 2006 book Aging Nation, Jim Schulz and Robert Binstock referred to “merchants of doom”–academics, political figures, and journalists who mistakenly believe that we cannot afford the aging of the population. A central concern of these doomsayers is the cost of entitlements, i.e., Social Security and Medicare, which they argue will ” require massive tax increases, cause immense deficits or crowd out other important government programs “.
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Health Care Costs & the Entitlement Crisis