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By Sammy Mack - Health News Florida on January 22nd, 2010
As records go digital, cultures clash
Surprise charges, inadequate training and even blocked access to patient files–a massive headache.
Category: Doctors
By KaiserHealthNews on October 01st, 2009
Study: Young Docs Stumped by Health Care System, Too
Less than half of graduating medical students say they have a good sense of how to navigate health care systems or the economics of practicing medicine.
By admin on August 14th, 2009
Health Stories in the News – Aug. 14
Allow Seattle Children’s to expand, says Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council should reverse ruling of a hearing examiner who has rejected Seattle Children’s expansion plans, says Seattle Times argues in an editorial today’s paper.
The hearing examiner found that hospital’s planned expansion, which would add 1.5 million square feet of space on its Lauralhurst campus, was inappropriate [...]
By admin on August 12th, 2009
Transcript of President Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall”
The White House has released a transcript of President Barack Obama’s “Health Insurance Reform Town Hall” meeting held yesterday, August 11 at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
To read it click on “Read more…”.
Transcript released by the White House:
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Portsmouth! Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. [...]
By admin on August 11th, 2009
For Major Health Industry Players, Reform’s Positives Outweigh Negatives
By Phil Galewitz
August 11, 2009
When Congress and the White House began talking about a health care overhaul, the industries that profit from the $2.5 trillion system were understandably nervous.
But as the legislation takes shape, it appears much of the anxiety was misplaced. Most of the major health care players, including hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical [...]
By admin on August 10th, 2009
Bending the Curve Requires Health Care Reform, Not Just Sick Care Reform: A History Lesson
OPINION:
Joseph Califano, Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University
As President Obama and Congress struggle to bend the rising cost curve in order to make health care available to all Americans, the history of the first great expansion of health care coverage when Lyndon Johnson drove Medicare and Medicaid through [...]
By admin on July 21st, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 21
Continuous chemotherapy for some cancers?
New York Times reporter Andrew Pollack writes that some doctors and pharmaceutical companies are advocating treating patients with cancer continuously.
“That would be a departure from the common practice of stopping treatment when the cancer is under control and resuming it only if the cancer worsens,” Pollack writes.
Some doctors say such ”maintenance [...]
By Dr. Carolyn Clancy on July 21st, 2009
Deciding what treatment is best is not always easy
Health Effects Of Comparing Care: No Easy Answers
By Joanne Silberner, NPR News
JUL 21, 2009
This story comes from NPR, a Kaiser Health News partner.
The Obama administration and Congress are moving forward with plans to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the various medical treatments for common health conditions, despite concerns of some lawmakers and the [...]
By Dr. Carolyn Clancy on July 21st, 2009
How you can help reduce medical errors
To reduce medical errors, hospitals are forming advisory councils where patients and health care professionals work together to improve safety.
In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, M.D., director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, explains how these advisory councils work.
Hospital Advisory Councils Get Patients’ View on Safer Health Care
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
July [...]
By admin on July 20th, 2009
Who Will Care for the Elderly and Disabled?
Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
July 20, 2009
Advocates of including long-term care services in health reform usually focus on two issues: How many Medicaid dollars should be spent on home care and whether to create a national long-term care insurance program, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has proposed in his CLASS [...]
By admin on July 17th, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 17
They’re baaaack: Harry and Louise – but now with a different message
Nearly, two decades ago, the fictional couple Harry and Louise appeared in ads sponsored by the health insurance industry that helped doom President Bill Clinton’s health-care reform legislation.
The ads warned that if health-reform passed Americans faced having the government limiting their choice of health [...]
By admin on July 03rd, 2009
Free Prostate Cancer Screening
Virginia Mason in partnership with ZERO: The Project to End Prostate Cancer and KOMO4, will host a mobile free prostate cancer testing program Thursday, July 9 in Seattle and Friday, July 10 in Issaquah from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Drive Against Prostate Cancer screening is free, confidential and does not require an appointment or health [...]
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