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Physicians Click Their Way To Better Prescriptions
Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic prescriptions can dramatically reduce prescribing errors up to seven-fold...
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Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: Patients Admitted To Hospitals On A Weekend Wait For Major Procedures
Of the 8 million patients who were admitted to U.S. hospitals on weekends in 2007, approximately one-third received needed major procedures on the day of admission, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In comparison, patients who were admitted on weekdays received 65 percent of all major procedures on their first day in the hospital...
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Integration Provides Better Health Outcomes - Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia
The Government's new hospital funding package is a welcome first step in the health reform process, but will be better served when complemented through implementation of a preventive health strategy to help minimise hospitalisations, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says...
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British Medical Association Response To Announcement On Doctors' Pay
Commenting on the Health Secretary's announcement on doctors' pay, Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA, said: "The BMA is disappointed that the government has chosen to overrule some of the recommendations of the independent pay review body...
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Care Improving, Cost Saving Indiana Network For Patient Care Expands
The Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding beyond central Indiana to serve patients from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind...
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Electronic Drug Information System "AiDKlinik" Reduces The Number Of Adverse Drug Interactions And Adverse Events
To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it is difficult to keep track of the variety of possible side effects and interactions. The team headed by Dr...
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National Briefing | South: Virginia: Opting to Refuse Health Overhaul
The state legislature approved a measure that bucks any effort by President Obama and Congress to carry out a national health care overhaul in individual states.
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Economic Scene: Wishing for a Health Care Plan That Cuts Costs
President Obama’s health reform plan is a mixed bag for those who care about keeping down medical costs.
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Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud
The president said he would unleash auditors in a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, a move to please both liberals and conservatives.
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Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: Letters about Me Minus 10
Two things I've learned since launching my Me Minus 10 campaign to lose 10 pounds before I turn 50 in December: Many people want to lose 10 pounds -- and many would like to have cartoon images made of themselves! I've received tons of great feedback; here are some of your letters.
Categories: General Health News
A few setbacks and changes in routine to lose 10 pounds
Me Minus 10 got off to a rocky start two weeks ago: No sooner had I pledged to lose 10 pounds than I got, first, a GI-tract malady and then a wicked head cold (both now resolved). Neither helped me mentally or physically. Nor did learning, upon purchase of a new scale, that I have 12, not 10 poun...
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Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given
NEW YORK -- A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.
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Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section
WASHINGTON -- Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."
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News Briefs: Week of March 8-12
This roundup includes the following news briefs: FDA Approves Name Change for Heartburn Drug; State Supreme Court Strikes Down Medical Malpractice Law; New Mexico Prepares to Enact Insurance Measure; AAFP Looking for Poster Presenters; Solo FP Testifies on Meaningful Use Regulations; Obama Administration Launches Healthy Food Financing Initiative; MedPAC Submits March Report to Congress.
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AAFP Uses Connect for Reform to Answer Questions on SGR Efforts
The AAFP has posted a question and answer document about the latest congressional action on the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula, along with a detailed analysis of the SGR itself, on its Connect for Reform Web site.
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AAFP Uses Connect for Reform to Answer Questions on SGR Efforts
The AAFP has posted a question and answer document about the latest congressional action on the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula, along with a detailed analysis of the SGR itself, on its Connect for Reform Web site.
Categories: General Health News
ACF Announces The Availability Of $42 Million In Competitive Grant Funding For Native American Communities And Organizations
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA) announces the availability of $42 million in competitive grant funding for fiscal year 2010 for community-based projects that promote economic and social self-sufficiency and cultural preservation for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Native American Pacific...
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Physical Therapists Unite To Support The Uninsured
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging residents across the country to contact their local elected officials and members of the media to draw attention to the problem of the nation's uninsured during "Cover the Uninsured Week," March 14-20...
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