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In President Obama's Washington, medical specialists are slightly more popular than the H1N1 virus. … [T]he quiet war Democrats are waging on specialists is astonishing (10/6).

7 Oct 2009

NANDA-I urges political leaders to include nurses in health care debate

While the health care debate continues in the U.S., there's one voice you haven't heard much from: nurses. "A number of our professional organizations have testified about proposed health care reforms, but nurses have not been asked to the table as equal participants," said T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, Executive Director of NANDA International (NANDA-I).

7 Oct 2009

Jacobs Engineering continues to provide program and construction management services

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a contract from the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., to continue providing program and construction management services for the New Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Expansion Projects

7 Oct 2009

Allsup: Disabled people experience difficulty in receiveing much-needed treatment

People with disabilities have crucial healthcare needs, but often experience difficulty in receiving much-needed treatment, according to Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security disability representation and Medicare services.

7 Oct 2009

California Center for Cardiothoracic Surgery: A destination for diagnosing and treating lung cancer

The California Center for Cardiothoracic Surgery have performed countless successful Lung Cancer Surgeries for patients throughout Southern California. The diagnosis of lung cancer can be a daunting one. Swift, attached to a vital organ and responsible for more deaths than any other type of cancer, lung cancer is indeed a serious prognosis.

7 Oct 2009

Parents should watch out for flu warning signs, says Minnesota physicians

Minnesota's physicians are urging parents to watch for the warning signs that their child is having a severe case of H1N1 and to seek out the H1N1 vaccine for their child when it becomes available.

7 Oct 2009

Patients increasingly charged 'facility fees'

Kaiser Health News/The Washington Post reports that patients are increasingly being charged "facility fees," which are "the result of an obscure change in Medicare rules that occurred nearly a decade ago.

7 Oct 2009

Hope for deadly smoking addiction; federal Tobacco Act amendment on the anvil

The Canadian Lung Association today congratulated Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq and all Parliamentarians on the passage of Bill C-32, an Act to Amend the federal Tobacco Act. The passage of the Act is a key win in the fight against smoking and the tobacco industry.

7 Oct 2009

Senate Finance Committee vote delayed; House Republicans prepare to meet Sebelius

The Senate Finance Committee will delay its vote on health care reform — and, likely the bill's move to the Senate floor — as members await cost estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.

7 Oct 2009

Obama seeks 'broadest coalition possible' but finds greater success outside beltway

In an effort to assemble "the broadest coalition possible" in its push for health reform, the administration has ventured outside the beltway, the New York Times reports.

7 Oct 2009

Award-winning GWTG hospitals have lower mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure patients: Study

Hospitals receiving performance awards from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) quality improvement initiative have lower mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure patients than all other hospitals, according to a new study.

7 Oct 2009

'Facility fees' are a surprise cost for many patients

This Kaiser Health News and Washington Post story reported by Sandra Boodman, explores the idea of provider-based billing. This approach "allows hospitals that own physician practices and outpatient clinics that meet certain federal requirements to bill separately for the facility as well as for physician services.

7 Oct 2009

Magazine compiles rankings of U.S. nursing homes

U.S. News & World Report examines government data from more than 15,500 nursing homes to determine which are the nation's best: "At the core of the rankings is the data and ratings found on Nursing Home Compare, a federal website created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

7 Oct 2009

Out-sourcing and cash incentives may increase healthcare access in low income countries

Contracting private providers of healthcare services and giving cash incentives to patients are two strategies that have been proposed to increase access to healthcare in low income countries.

7 Oct 2009

GE to commission three hospitals in Cambodia through its Developing Health Globally program

GE is commissioning three hospitals in the Phnom Penh area of Cambodia through its Developing Health GloballyTM program. Each commissioning marks the completion of the product installation and training and provides each hospital the opportunity to share the news of the upgraded facility to the community.

7 Oct 2009

Pre-Visit Patients are more engaged and empowered to take action and influence others

Online individuals who have a scheduled appointment with a doctor – also known as Pre-Visit Patients™ – hold a range of traits and behaviors that make them of deep interest to health-related advertisers, according to an analysis of two surveys conducted separately by Manhattan Research and HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company.

7 Oct 2009

Social factors, including housing, income and education, affect health

Besides insurance coverage, several others factors such as racial differences, zip code, education level and income, have an even bigger effect on health.

7 Oct 2009

Insurers push back against the Finance Committee's softened individual mandate penalties

Hospitals and insurance companies are not happy with amendments to the Senate Finance Committee's health bill that softened penalties on individuals who don't comply with the mandate to purchase insurance.

7 Oct 2009

House Democrats question their reform role while Republicans plan meeting with Secretary Sebelius

In the House, members are questioning if their version of the bill even matters, Politico reports. "With the media following every turn of the Senate negotiations, some House Democrats have started to ask themselves whether all of the work crafting a House bill will even make a difference in the end, or whether they'll simply get steamrolled by a White House so eager for a compromise that the president will just use the Senate bill as the template" (O'Connor, 10/6).

7 Oct 2009

$4.8 million grant from CDC to establish Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

Researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, with its world-renowned medical informatics research group and regional health information exchange, have been awarded a $4.8 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers in the nation.

7 Oct 2009

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Today's editorials and opinions

NANDA-I urges political leaders to include nurses in health care debate

Jacobs Engineering continues to provide program and construction management services

Allsup: Disabled people experience difficulty in receiveing much-needed treatment

California Center for Cardiothoracic Surgery: A destination for diagnosing and treating lung cancer

Parents should watch out for flu warning signs, says Minnesota physicians

Patients increasingly charged 'facility fees'

Hope for deadly smoking addiction; federal Tobacco Act amendment on the anvil

Senate Finance Committee vote delayed; House Republicans prepare to meet Sebelius

Obama seeks 'broadest coalition possible' but finds greater success outside beltway

Award-winning GWTG hospitals have lower mortality rates for heart attack and heart failure patients: Study

'Facility fees' are a surprise cost for many patients

Magazine compiles rankings of U.S. nursing homes

Out-sourcing and cash incentives may increase healthcare access in low income countries

GE to commission three hospitals in Cambodia through its Developing Health Globally program

Pre-Visit Patients are more engaged and empowered to take action and influence others

Social factors, including housing, income and education, affect health

Insurers push back against the Finance Committee's softened individual mandate penalties

House Democrats question their reform role while Republicans plan meeting with Secretary Sebelius

$4.8 million grant from CDC to establish Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

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