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Research roundup: Value-based insurance; telemedicine in nursing homes; advance care planning

Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

10 Feb 2014

Family Health Network grows by nearly 15% in 2013

The Family Health Network, a nonprofit health plan serving Medicaid recipients, has seen its network of providers double over the last three years, from 2,078 primary-care physicians, specialists, hospitals and clinics in 2010 to 4,299 at the close of 2013.

9 Feb 2014

Cancer Council Queensland launches an Australia-first study to assess concerns of cancer survivors

Cancer Council Queensland will today launch an Australia-first study into cancer survivorship, to benefit millions of Australians expected to survive cancer in their lifetime.

7 Feb 2014

State highlights: Colo. County may sue over no change to insurance ratings; Oregon Medicaid patients visit ER less; Iowa Universities face subsidies lawsuit

Enraged that Colorado officials are refusing to change health insurance rating systems for this year or next, Garfield County's attorney and commissioners are considering suing the state.

6 Feb 2014

Reports indicate rural women more likely to have depressive mood and anxiety symptoms

Women living in rural communities are less likely than urban-dwelling women to receive sufficient mental health care, in large part due to limited access to services and societal stigma, according to medicine and public health researchers.

6 Feb 2014

Viewpoints: CBO report on health law: Damaging the labor market or freeing workers from 'insurance trap'?

There are 7.8 million Americans working part-time who want full-time work, including a fry cook whose restaurant cut his hours to avoid Affordable Care Act mandates and confronted President Obama in an online Google Q&A last week: "We can't survive. It's not a living." Mr. Obama changed the subject to raising the minimum wage. But he can't dodge reality forever as the evidence piles up that ObamaCare is harming the labor market.

6 Feb 2014

CVS to stop selling cigarettes by fall

The move is part of a trend of pharmacies becoming health providers.

6 Feb 2014

Women must visit obstetricians, primary care doctors after childbirth

Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half make or keep those postpartum appointments, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers.

6 Feb 2014

Findings raise hope for new oral anticoagulants to treat patients with atrial fibrillation

Approximately one in two patients with atrial fibrillation (Afib) do not optimally reduce their risk of stroke or bleeding when treated with the most widely prescribed oral-anticoagulant therapy, according to a study published online in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association.

From Quest Diagnostics 5 Feb 2014

95% of adults die annually from vaccine preventable diseases

While adults make up 95 percent of those who die annually from vaccine preventable diseases, a new study from the University of Colorado School of Medicine shows their vaccination rates remain stubbornly low, representing a growing public health concern.

5 Feb 2014

HealthCare Partners, L.A. Care to provide quality care for Covered California members in Los Angeles area

To help ensure greater access to quality health care for newly enrolled members of Covered California in the greater Los Angeles area, HealthCare Partners has signed a provider agreement with L.A. Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan and a key health plan partner for the California Health Exchange.

4 Feb 2014

Hy-Vee collaborates with UNMC and Ferris State to offer rapid-diagnostic influenza test

Getting tested and treated for the flu and strep throat became much easier today in Omaha. It's now as convenient as a trip to the grocery store.

4 Feb 2014

Researcher to study how to address shortage of mental health services in Vietnam

A Simon Fraser University researcher is going to Vietnam to study how to address the shortage of accessible and adequate services for people with mental disorders like depression and anxiety.

30 Jan 2014

Delbene takes on challenge of correcting healthcare.gov's flaws

Kaiser Health News profiles the Obama administration's new website fix-it guy. And, in other news, The Associated Press reports that some workers at a federal health care call center for the health exchanges are now suing the government because they allegedly were forced to work unpaid overtime.

30 Jan 2014

Study: Views about responsibilities may vary widely in parents in getting specialty care for children

Parents vary widely in views about their responsibilities in getting specialty care for their children, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

29 Jan 2014

Temple University Hospital to test multilayer stent in patients suffering from aortic aneurysm

Temple University Hospital (TUH) could be among the first U.S.-based hospitals to test a new device known as a multilayer stent in patients suffering from aortic aneurysm, a condition characterized by the formation of a potentially life-threatening bulge in the aorta.

28 Jan 2014

Primary Care News and Research

Latest Primary Care News and Research

Research roundup: Value-based insurance; telemedicine in nursing homes; advance care planning

Family Health Network grows by nearly 15% in 2013

Cancer Council Queensland launches an Australia-first study to assess concerns of cancer survivors

State highlights: Colo. County may sue over no change to insurance ratings; Oregon Medicaid patients visit ER less; Iowa Universities face subsidies lawsuit

Reports indicate rural women more likely to have depressive mood and anxiety symptoms

Viewpoints: CBO report on health law: Damaging the labor market or freeing workers from 'insurance trap'?

CVS to stop selling cigarettes by fall

Women must visit obstetricians, primary care doctors after childbirth

Findings raise hope for new oral anticoagulants to treat patients with atrial fibrillation

95% of adults die annually from vaccine preventable diseases

HealthCare Partners, L.A. Care to provide quality care for Covered California members in Los Angeles area

Hy-Vee collaborates with UNMC and Ferris State to offer rapid-diagnostic influenza test

Researcher to study how to address shortage of mental health services in Vietnam

Delbene takes on challenge of correcting healthcare.gov's flaws

Study: Views about responsibilities may vary widely in parents in getting specialty care for children

Temple University Hospital to test multilayer stent in patients suffering from aortic aneurysm

When cut from Medicare advantage plans, doctors face dilemma about patients

S. pneumoniae predicts acute sinusitis microbial response

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