Letters: The Government and Digital Health Records
A reader responds to “Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records” (Unboxed, Feb. 27).
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health center owner files Ch. 11
Meridian Behavioral Health, the state's largest for-profit behavioral health-care operator, seeks bankruptcy protection after lender moves to seize bank accounts.
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health Canada recalls 4 kids products, Ikea coffee-tea maker
Health Canada issued recalls Friday affecting several products, including children’s items that could cause injury.
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health Tip: If Your Child Has Diabetes
Title: Health Tip: If Your Child Has Diabetes Category: Health News Created: 3/4/2011 10:05:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/4/2011
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health Tip: What's Behind Iron Deficiency
Title: Health Tip: What's Behind Iron Deficiency Category: Health News Created: 3/4/2011 10:05:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/4/2011
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health officials get their checkup in Natick
The state's top health official took the public's temperature yesterday on how his department is doing its job.
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health center cuts threaten services
The county's principal provider of basic health services for the poor and uninsured may have to reduce the number of patients it sees, charge higher fees or delay the opening of new clinics if proposed budget cuts become a reality.
(Mar 4, 2011)
Health clinic planned for Dalton Community Center
The new Dalton Community Center, which is slated to open this summer, could be the home of a new health clinic, giving more health care options to residents of a neighborhood that has no doctor’s offices.
(Mar 5, 2011)
GW Health Policy Researchers play a major role in AJPM supplement
GW Health Policy Researchers, led by Wilhelmine Miller, Ph.D., associate research professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy, played a major role in the supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Alabama works toward health insurance exchange
While legislators this week moved to block implementation of the federal health care overhaul in Alabama, the governor and other politicians are taking steps to implement a health insurance exchange mandated by the law.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Trinity Health, Loyola OK deal
Novi-based Trinity Health, the nation's fourth-largest Catholic-based health system, has signed an initial agreement to buy the Loyola University Health System from Loyola University Chicago by July 1, officials said Friday.
(Mar 5, 2011)
No wonder health costs are so high
Nowhere in the nation does it seem that Blue Cross Blue Shield is willing to moderate itself.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health department official under fire for alleged misconduct
HAMPSTEAD – A Hampstead man seeking the status of a local restaurant health inspection had his membership to a country club revoked.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health law pays off for Omaha
Although the new federal health care law won’t take full effect until 2014, it’s already paying dividends for the City of Omaha.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health department official under fire for alleged misconduct
HAMPSTEAD – A Hampstead man seeking the status of a local restaurant health inspection had his membership to a country club revoked.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health services provider expands despite threats to funding
West County Health Centers is “in the planning stages” of opening up a wellness center in Forestville, possibly sometime in April.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health law pays off for Omaha
Although the new federal health care law won’t take full effect until 2014, it’s already paying dividends for the City of Omaha.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Jury orders health care facilities to pay $9 million in wrongful death suit
Jury orders health care facilities to pay $9 million in wrongful death suit
(Mar 5, 2011)
Romney seeks to address health care woes
Call it an attempt to address an obvious political vulnerability. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Saturday derided President Barack Obama's health care law — modeled in some ways after one the ex-governor signed in Massachusetts — as a misguided and egregious effort to seize more power for Washington.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Romney: Health Law Will Cost Obama Second Term
Potential GOP candidate Mitt Romney derides president's health care overhaul as misguided and egregious Gingrich Hints He Will Run YOU DECIDE: Do You Think Trump Would Run Serious Campaign?
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health rules confuse small businesses
Owners face choices for employees, bottom lines.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Health law pays off for Omaha
Although the new federal health care law won’t take full effect until 2014, it’s already paying dividends for the City of Omaha.
(Mar 5, 2011)
HEALTH NEWSMAKERS
LAKEVILLE — Lakeville Chiropractic, 350 Bedford St., will hosting the Southcoast Health Van from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Is state overpaying for low-income health care?
There's money to be made in running HMOs for low-income Minnesotans.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Romney seeks to address health care woes
Call it an attempt to address an obvious political vulnerability.
(Mar 5, 2011)
Offsite Announces Rural Health Initiative Launch
Offsite Image Management is donating $500,000 of its offsite radiology imaging services to rural hospitals. This grant will immediately equip these hospitals to participate in Health Information Exchange with other health care providers in their region. Kansas City, MO (PRWEB) March 4, 2011 OffSite Image Management Systems (OIMS), based out of Kansas City, is launching the Rural Health ...
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health Care Reform Bill Best Option: Analysis
TUESDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- The new U.S. health care reform law was the best option for providing health insurance to the largest number of people while keeping federal government costs as low as possible, according to an analysis by the RAND Corp., a nonprofit policy think tank.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health Dept. rates local food establishments
Area health departments last week rated 8 food establishments as conditionally satisfactory for health code violations and restored 4 others to satisfactory ratings after reinspections.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health-care options shrink for uninsured
For this group, one-fifth of the state's population, health care can come through a web of options.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Lead and asbestos in homes need tighter control
The health risks from toxins such as lead in old paint or asbestos in walls are too often overlooked when homes are upgraded, according to a study on Sunday calling on governments to set tougher pollution rules.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health and Beauty Society Treats Students
For someone whose only experience of fake nails ended in me gluing my fingers together, the idea of attending the Health and Beauty Society Society’s session on applying fake nails seemed a little daunting.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health unit reviews options
Public health officials are again reviewing their options for more office space but say it could be a year before a clear plan emerges. The Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit's main office is a single-storey brick building on North Park Street.[...]
(Mar 6, 2011)
Municipal health care costs debated in Mass.
Health care for municipal employees in Massachusetts will be an issue front and center at the Statehouse this week.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Bumpy start for mental health and addictions committee
Northern Health is attempting to give clients and family members accessing mental health and addiction services a direct line of communication with Northern Health. The idea is to create advisory committees across Northern Health communities, and Fort St. James, Vanderhoof, Burns Lake and Fraser Lake will group together to form one committee for Omineca Lakes.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Michele Bachmann 'Exposes' $105 Billion 'Legislative Fraud' in Health Care Law
Michele Bachmann, to the point of exasperating NBC's David Gregory on "Meet The Press," pointedly reiterated that the Obama administration had, along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, deceptively hidden away more than $105 billion in health care appropriations in the budget. It is also a claim she made in a video posted on Thursday on her own website.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health ministers to unveil plan to tackle childhood obesity
With figures showing one-quarter of Canadian children struggle with their weight, Canada’s health ministers are stepping up to the plate to help obese kids.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health unit reviews options
Public health officials are again reviewing their options for more office space but say it could be a year before a clear plan emerges. The Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit's main office is a single-storey brick building on North Park Street.[...]
(Mar 6, 2011)
HSE and private health insurance scrapped with plan for single-tier model
THE Government plans to scrap private health insurance and the Health Service Executive (HSE) under a new healthcare model where those who can pay will, and those who can’t will be paid for by the Exchequer.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Franklinton health clinic fears budget impact
The budget debate in Washington, D.C., could mean that a Franklinton health clinic will have to turn away poor and uninsured patients.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health care political battles tied to budget, insurance costs
"As Congress continues to debate the new health care law, health insurance costs are still rising, particularly for small businesses. Republicans are seizing on the trend as evidence that the new law includes expensive features that are driving up premiums. But the insurance industry says premiums are rising primarily because of the underlying cost of care and a growing demand for it. Across the ...
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health services provider expands despite threats to funding
West County Health Centers is “in the planning stages” of opening up a wellness center in Forestville, possibly sometime in April.
(Mar 6, 2011)
Health literacy critical to good health care
An elderly woman sent home from the hospital develops a life-threatening infection because she doesn't understand the warning signs listed in the discharge instructions.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Health Special: Healing the Hurt
Finding new ways to treat pain
(Mar 7, 2011)
Public employee unions will pitch plan on health insurance
Several union organizations representing public employees are expected to announce a major proposal today on municipal health insurance, as the Legislature considers how to rein in those spiraling costs.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Expert: Senate health bill would break new federal law
A health reform bill in the Iowa Senate would break federal law by requiring Iowa consumers to go through licensed insurance agents if they wanted to use a new health insurance exchange, a national expert alleged last week.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Franklinton health clinic fears budget impact
The budget debate in Washington, D.C., could mean that a Franklinton health clinic will have to turn away poor and uninsured patients.
(Mar 7, 2011)
10 Things Health Insurers Won't Say
You can get more generous benefits -- and better coverage. Maybe.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Romney's tea party-friendly defense on health care
Mitt Romney made some of his most significant statements yet this weekend about the health care bill he signed as governor of Massachusetts, offering a preview of his defense for what many are expecting to be a potent line of attack for Romney's opponents.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Health staff still missing pay
ONE year after Queensland Health's disastrous payroll system went live, workers are still being underpaid and some are going empty-handed.
(Mar 7, 2011)
Loyola University Chicago And Trinity Health Sign Letter Of Intent
Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and Trinity Health (Novi, Mich.) have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) that could lead to the consolidation of Trinity Health and the Loyola University Health System (LUHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the University. The LOI provides a framework for the partnership and begins the formal process of creating the operating model for consolidating the two ...
(Mar 7, 2011)
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