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Three new vendors will replace the company that provides medical care in Delaware’s prisons, the state’s response to five years of criticism and turmoil over the quality of inmate health care.
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Deals to change prison health care
MONTPELIER The Vermont Senate easily passed a major health care reform bill Tuesday night, but first lawmakers jettisoned a provision that would have allowed the state to track free drug samples given to doctors. … – By DANIEL BARLOW VERMONT PRESS BUREAU
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Senate strikes tracking of drug samples from health care reform bill
The Minnesota House on Tuesday passed a health care bill that erases $170 million of the state budget deficit, lays the groundwork for federal health care changes, spells out hundreds of million in cuts to mental health, welfare and other programs, and pushes the 2010 legislative session a step closer to the finish line.
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Minnesota House approves health care bill
( University of Iowa – Health Science ) One of the most common causes of preventable health care-associated infections is poor hand hygiene. iScrub Lite 1.5, an iPhone and iPod touch application developed at the University of Iowa, makes monitoring hand hygiene compliance more efficient and accurate.
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Do health care professionals perform hand hygiene? UI has an app for that
The Minnesota House on Tuesday passed a health care bill that erases $170 million of the state budget deficit, lays the groundwork for federal health care reforms, spells out hundreds of million in cuts to mental health, welfare and other programs and pushes the 2010 session a step closer to the finish line.
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House passes health care bill that erases $170 million from state budget deficit
May 5 (Bloomberg) — China International Capital Corp., the top-ranked brokerage for China research in the annual survey by Asiamoney magazine, is recommending investors stay defensive by holding shares of Chinese health-care, utility, telecom and agriculture companies.
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CICC Recommends China Defensive Stocks Including Health-care
By Matthew Holt Those of you who are keen on gaming and health will want to know that RWJ Pioneer Portfolio is sponsoring the upcoming 6th Annual Games for Health Conference in Baltimore May 25-27.
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DC area–Games for Health, Gov 2.0 & Health 2.0 Conferences soon!
Combination in restraint of trade : An illegal compact between two or more persons to unjustly restrict competition and monopolize commerce in goods or services by controlling their production, distribution, and price or through other unlawful means. Such combinations are prohibited by the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and other antitrust acts.
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Healthcare IT Corporate Ethics 101: ‘A Strategy for Cerner Corporation to Address the HIT Stimulus Plan’
Shares of some top health care equipment companies were down at the close of trading: Becton Dickinson fell $.78 or 1.0 percent, to $75.44.
The Oklahoma Senate has narrowly passed a bill designed to prevent the new federal health care law from applying to Oklahomans.
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Oklahoma Senate OKs federal health care ‘opt out’
Trying to entice employers to keep early retirees on their medical plans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday it’s making $5 billion available until the safety net of the new health care law is in place.
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Feds offer $5B to shore up early retiree health care coverage
Many say Arizona’s stringent new law demands immigration reform from Washington. But Congress may not be ready for another political showdown so soon after health-care reform.
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After health-care reform, is immigration reform achievable?
Today the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services issued a Request for Information titled HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (75 Fed Reg 23214 May 3, 2010) . More information at the OCR website . The Request for Information by OCR seeks comments from health consumers and health care providers/organizations.
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OCR Request for Information: HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under HITECH
At ” FDA on Health IT Adverse Consequences: 44 Reported Injuries And 6 Deaths In Two Years, Probably Just Tip of Iceberg ” I wrote about a meeting of the HIT Policy Committee, Adoption/Certification Workgroup on February 25, 2010. The topic was “HIT safety.” The agenda, presenters and presentations are available at this link
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David Blumenthal on health IT safety: nothing to see here, move along
By SUSAN NOACK, IBM BUSINESS ANALYTICS To say that the health care industry is undergoing a significant transformation would be quite the understatement. Current economic conditions have challenged health care organizations to deliver optimal services in the face of compromised…
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The Changing Face of Health Care: How Business Analytics Can Improve Performance & Drive Efficiencies
By Maggie Mahar Summary: Short-term, at least, hospitals are winners. When it came to negotiating with reformers, they “got into the tent early,” and the reductions in Medicare increases that they accepted will be offset by an influx of paying…
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Myths and Facts About Health Reform Part III
By BOB WACHTER If you’ve ever been on a diet, you know that it really helps to keep a food log. Seeing your consumption chronicled in one place is illuminating – and often explains why those love handles aren’t melting…
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What’s Behind Today’s Primary Care Crisis: You Don’t Know the Half of It
By DAVID HARLOW One issue up for discussion in this evening’s free-form health care social media tweetchat was the fake Facebook page of eSara Baker, posted as a form of marketing for a company providing online health-related services (which sound…
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Fake Facebook Profiles and Other Portents of the End of Times
By THCB Staff The Health Care Blog’s Founder & CEO Matthew Holt today announced a policy of absolute transparency concerning the rash of “inappropriate relationships” apparently infecting the health care blogging community. Holt released this statement: I can categorically deny…
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THCB CEO denies improper relationships, payoffs
Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately. Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York – Presbyterian Hospital. As reported first by the Wall Street Journal, Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that bid rigging and fraud at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital resulted in the hospitals awarding contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to outside contractors
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Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teaching Hospitals