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Conference on how to develop networks to improve patient safety

The LINNEAUS collaboration is a group of primary care professionals and researchers from the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Poland who have significant experience in understanding and learning about patient safety.

22 Apr 2010

Mail-order drug provider identifies $163B in potential prescription drug savings

A study by Express Scripts, a mail-order prescription drug provider, said Tuesday that an "estimated $163 billion in health care spending could be saved each year if patients took their medicines as prescribed, chose generic drugs and other low-cost alternatives, and had their prescriptions delivered by mail," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Express Scripts released its report at a two-day conference for clients in St. Louis.

22 Apr 2010

As more reform specifics emerge, so do questions, answers and impacts

As details of health reform policies shake out, questions, answers and consequences are emerging.

22 Apr 2010

States reach compromise on financial healthcare reforms

After all the posturing and grand standing the states have finally reached a compromise on the financial healthcare reforms suggested by the Federal Government. Prime Misnter Kevin Rudd may be happy about the outcome, but he still has more to do. The work is only just beginning for the long haul.

22 Apr 2010

Proposed Medicare payment changes for hospitals would lower reimbursements slightly

The Wall Street Journal: "Hospital stocks moved higher Tuesday after the agency that runs Medicare proposed new inpatient services rates for the next fiscal year that were somewhat better than many had expected. Monday evening the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would like to cut Medicare operating payments to acute care hospitals for inpatient services occurring in the next fiscal year by $142 million, or 0.1%. These figures don't include the impact of the new health-care reform law, which analysts said would cut the rate by another 0.25%".

22 Apr 2010

Women and men experience different outcomes at U.S. hospitals: HealthGrades

Women and men experience different outcomes at U.S. hospitals for the same procedures and treatments, according to a new study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

22 Apr 2010

New Department of Neurosurgery for UNC School of Medicine

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is establishing a new Department of Neurosurgery, effective July 1, 2010.

22 Apr 2010

Senate Democrats seek legislation to regulate insurer rate hikes

The New York Times: "Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after President Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs." Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation that would allow the federal health secretary to block "any rate increase found to be unreasonable," an authority that would be shared with some state insurance officials.

22 Apr 2010

Clinical Xpert suite of mobile clinical workflow solutions available to clinicians

Thomson Reuters announced today that it will support the iPhone platform for its Clinical Xpert suite of mobile clinical workflow solutions.

22 Apr 2010

2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans interpreted for practical use by health care professionals

The first formal U.S. government recommendations on physical activity, the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, were published in 2008. Now, those guidelines have been interpreted for practical use by health care professionals in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, published by SAGE.

22 Apr 2010

Obama puts health care on 'back burner'

The Washington Post: President Barack Obama seems to have put health care on the back burner as he focuses on financial reform and nuclear proliferation.

22 Apr 2010

Legal case asks who to blame for medical device failure

The New York Times: A legal case now pending asks a question increasingly faced by the medical world -- "who should be held accountable when a company sells a flawed product that can injure or kill patients? Is it the company or the people who run it?"

22 Apr 2010

Health record push lacks FDA oversight, risks safety problems

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund: "As federal officials encourage the rapid expansion of electronic medical records to help doctors improve care and cut costs, they lack a reliable and systematic method for tracking the safety of these products, agency data and audits show. Instead, the Food and Drug Administration depends on a spotty warning system that can take a year to flag serious computer malfunctions and other software glitches.

22 Apr 2010

Berwick may face difficult confirmation in Senate

News outlets continue to report on Donald Berwick, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

22 Apr 2010

State's Medicaid funds tapped for federal health overhaul

Kaiser Health News staff writer Christopher Weaver writes: "The new health care law could shift billions of dollars from cash-strapped states to the federal government by changing the way Medicaid prescription drug rebates are treated, according to state and industry officials and an examination of Medicaid spending data" (Weaver, 4/20).

22 Apr 2010

Alaska is 20th state to join health reform lawsuit; Okla. and La. consider signing on

Alaska Republican Gov. Sean Parnell has said he will make Alaska the 20th state to join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law, The Anchorage Daily News/McClatchy report.

21 Apr 2010

Identity Force releases Spring 2010 National Survey of Hospital Compliance Executives

Identity Force today released its Spring 2010 National Survey of Hospital Compliance Executives. More than 200 compliance executives from AHA member hospitals in 43 states indicated data breaches and medical identity theft continue to grow despite new regulations like the Red Flag Rules and the HITECH Act, designed to protect against the theft and loss of personal information.

21 Apr 2010

CUPE to fight Liberals' patient-based funding model

Predictions that setting prices and tendering for the provision of hospital clinical services would lead to privatization of those services were reinforced by the Ministry of Health on Monday. A Ministry of Health spokesperson, in an email to the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Herald stated that the government is "not considering outsourcing or privatization" and that any change in that position "would only be undertaken with consultation with the field and that implementation would be phased in to protect hospitals and the public from service disruption."

21 Apr 2010

Evening of Remembrance Memorial Services to be offered in Colma, Palo Alto and Hayward

Pathways Home Health & Hospice is offering Evening of Remembrance Memorial Services in Colma, Palo Alto and Hayward in May. Individuals and families who are grieving will find a place to remember, reflect and honor their lost loved ones.

21 Apr 2010

Drugmakers raised prices last year in anticipation of new health law, Eli Lilly reports financial hit

"Drug companies sharply raised prices last year, ahead of increased rebates they must pay to Medicaid and other expenses tied to the federal health overhaul passed last month. Prices for brand-name pharmaceuticals rose 9.1% last year, the biggest increase in at least a decade, according to pharmacy-benefit manager Express Scripts Inc."

21 Apr 2010

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Conference on how to develop networks to improve patient safety

Mail-order drug provider identifies $163B in potential prescription drug savings

As more reform specifics emerge, so do questions, answers and impacts

States reach compromise on financial healthcare reforms

Proposed Medicare payment changes for hospitals would lower reimbursements slightly

Women and men experience different outcomes at U.S. hospitals: HealthGrades

New Department of Neurosurgery for UNC School of Medicine

Senate Democrats seek legislation to regulate insurer rate hikes

Clinical Xpert suite of mobile clinical workflow solutions available to clinicians

2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans interpreted for practical use by health care professionals

Obama puts health care on 'back burner'

Legal case asks who to blame for medical device failure

Health record push lacks FDA oversight, risks safety problems

Berwick may face difficult confirmation in Senate

State's Medicaid funds tapped for federal health overhaul

Alaska is 20th state to join health reform lawsuit; Okla. and La. consider signing on

Identity Force releases Spring 2010 National Survey of Hospital Compliance Executives

CUPE to fight Liberals' patient-based funding model

Evening of Remembrance Memorial Services to be offered in Colma, Palo Alto and Hayward

Drugmakers raised prices last year in anticipation of new health law, Eli Lilly reports financial hit

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