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Sebelius attacks health insurers, they fight back

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius "pleaded with insurance companies on Wednesday to scrap their campaign against President Obama's health care bill and to work with the White House to pass it," The New York Times reports.

12 Mar 2010

Powerful Catholic quietly shaping abortion, health bill debate

Kaiser Health News reports on Richard Doerflinger, who doesn't look the part of a high-powered political strategist. Bearded and bespectacled, he works in a small, cluttered office out of one of Washington's less fashionable neighborhoods, far from the lobbying bastions of K Street.

12 Mar 2010

Hospitals cope with losing money

Kentucky's Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's HealthCare is eliminating 500 jobs this month. The layoffs represent the first large-scale cuts in a Louisville-area hospital system since the recession began.

12 Mar 2010

Congress, Obama continue health reform push

"Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement," CNN reports. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hosted a "meeting of the entire House Democratic caucus in the morning," while Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to hold a news conference that will "build public momentum by framing the issue in more personal terms."

12 Mar 2010

Obama makes impassioned argument for health reform, tough measures to combat health fraud

A shirt-sleeved President Barack Obama took his closing arguments for health care reform to the St. Louis area Wednesday.

12 Mar 2010

Detroit federal jury convicts doctor in Medicare fraud scheme

Farmington Hills, Mich., physician Jose Castro-Ramirez was convicted today by a Detroit federal jury on all 13 charged counts in connection with his role in an $18.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.

12 Mar 2010

Survey: Employers plan to shift more health costs to workers

The Washington Post: "Most big employers plan to shift a larger share of health-care costs to their workers next year, according to a survey to be released Thursday. ... Meanwhile, employees at many companies can expect significantly higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments, according to the annual survey by the National Business Group on Health, a coalition of big employers, and Towers Watson, a consulting firm that advises companies on employee benefits."

12 Mar 2010

Today's OpEds: Rove on reconciliation, an imagined plea from Kennedy, vulnerable Hispanics

The Trouble With 'Reconciliation' The Wall Street Journal House Democrats would be foolish to trust a process that has deeply alienated the American public. Republicans know that and are determined to make House Democrats think hard about the price they will pay for passing this health-care monstrosity (Karl Rove, 3/11).

12 Mar 2010

Restrictions on physician work hours may lead to more miscommunication

As shifts change in a hospital, outgoing physicians must "hand off" important information to their replacements in a brief meeting. But a new study of this hand-off process finds that the most important information is not fully conveyed in a majority of cases, even as physicians rate their communication as successful.

11 Mar 2010

Children's National Medical Center implements Streamline's Audit Integrity Manager Solution

Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of document workflow solutions for hospitals, today announced that Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, will be implementing its Audit Integrity Manager Solution for more efficient enterprise compliance with government and healthcare related regulations.

11 Mar 2010

New insurance plan to link a patient's cost to effectiveness of treatments

Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby, working in collaboration with USA Today, writes about potentially controversial policies that are a trend toward value-based design.

11 Mar 2010

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center recommends colonoscopy screening to reduce risk of colon cancer

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center are encouraging men and women to learn more about colon polyps and how they affect a person's risks for cancer.

11 Mar 2010

Intel, Mayo Clinic and GE launch new initiative to study care and benefits of home-based telemedicine

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. was pleased on learning the news that Intel, The Mayo Clinic and GE Healthcare have launched a new initiative to study the care and cost benefits of home-based telemedicine for elderly patients with chronic illnesses.

11 Mar 2010

NHS to improve response to violence against women and children

The role of the NHS in responding to violence against women and children is the subject of a new report by an independent taskforce of experts including Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Health Care at the University of Bristol.

11 Mar 2010

Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 filed in state legislature

National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United today announce that the Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 has been filed in the state legislature by authors Rep. Oscar Braynon and Sen. Tony Hill and will be known as HB 1283 and S 2316.

11 Mar 2010

Decade of Action for Road Safety seeks to halt increasing trends in road traffic deaths, injuries worldwide

WHO welcomes the proclamation by the UN General Assembly of the first "Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020" which seeks to halt the increasing trends in road traffic deaths and injuries worldwide.

11 Mar 2010

Legalising cannabis: School children debate

Should cannabis be legalised? This thorny political issue will be debated by teams of school children in a national competition designed to challenge the pupil's scientific knowledge. The event is part of the Festival of Social Science organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and will be staged at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

11 Mar 2010

Private sector auditors to root out fraud in Medicare and Medicaid: CAGW lauds decision

The nation’s premier taxpayer watchdog group, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), today applauded President Obama for announcing that he will use private sector auditors to root out fraud in the country’s two massive government-run healthcare plans, Medicare and Medicaid. The practice of using private sector auditors to identify and recover improper overpayments to healthcare contractors and providers, technically called recovery audit contractors (RACs), has been a staple in the private sector for many years.

11 Mar 2010

MEDNAX acquires Maryland Perinatal Associates

MEDNAX, Inc., today announced the acquisition of Maryland Perinatal Associates, PC, a group of four maternal-fetal medicine physicians based in Rockville, Maryland.

11 Mar 2010

Evaluating true toxicity of drugs: Changes in collecting and reporting adverse symptom information needed

A Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for change in the way researchers and pharmaceutical companies collect and report adverse symptom information in clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and how the FDA represents this information on drug labels.

11 Mar 2010

Healthcare News

Sebelius attacks health insurers, they fight back

Powerful Catholic quietly shaping abortion, health bill debate

Hospitals cope with losing money

Congress, Obama continue health reform push

Obama makes impassioned argument for health reform, tough measures to combat health fraud

Detroit federal jury convicts doctor in Medicare fraud scheme

Survey: Employers plan to shift more health costs to workers

Today's OpEds: Rove on reconciliation, an imagined plea from Kennedy, vulnerable Hispanics

Restrictions on physician work hours may lead to more miscommunication

Children's National Medical Center implements Streamline's Audit Integrity Manager Solution

New insurance plan to link a patient's cost to effectiveness of treatments

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center recommends colonoscopy screening to reduce risk of colon cancer

Intel, Mayo Clinic and GE launch new initiative to study care and benefits of home-based telemedicine

NHS to improve response to violence against women and children

Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 filed in state legislature

Decade of Action for Road Safety seeks to halt increasing trends in road traffic deaths, injuries worldwide

Legalising cannabis: School children debate

Private sector auditors to root out fraud in Medicare and Medicaid: CAGW lauds decision

MEDNAX acquires Maryland Perinatal Associates

Evaluating true toxicity of drugs: Changes in collecting and reporting adverse symptom information needed

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How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

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