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• HHS blog intended as forum about health IT

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  The first post on the new Health IT Buzz blog has generated more than 50 comments since it was posted Monday. The blog was launched by David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., the national coordinator for health information technology in the Department of Health & Human Services. A press release about the blog says it ...
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• Weekly Pulse: Crunch Time in the Senate

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 741
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is determined to get a health care bill passed in the Senate by Christmas. This is a momentous time, as John Nichols writes in The Nation : …Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night’s 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic ...
  3 days ago

• Poll: 76% women DISAGREE with mammogram guidelines

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 444
  November 24, 2009USA TODAY GALLUP Poll (+/- 4)What is your opinion of the new mammogram guidelines?Strongly agree 5%Agree 17%Disagree 29%Strongly Disagree 47%No opinion 2% 
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• Early detection decreases death rate from breast cancer

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 118
  The recent brouhaha created by the ill timed, ill worded, ill phrased (or is it just ill) report from the USPSTF (US Preventative Services Task Force) has stirred the pot to be sure.  We support individualized treatment of patients.  We applaud the tailoring of medical testing and procedures to individual needs and ...
  4 days ago

• H1N1 Blogger Briefing With Anne Schuchat & Friends

  
  Better Health — Authority: 556
  The Department of Health and Human Services held a blogger-targeted webcast about the H1N1 flu today in Washington, DC. Although Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had planned to co-lead the event, she was called to the White House for some healthcare reform deliberations - who knows when she’ll get out? (She promises to ...
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• Sebelius releases new report: health insurance reform and Pennsylvania – the case for change

  
  Courier Times Now — Authority: 543
  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of a new report highlighting the benefits of health insurance reform for Pennsylvania. Health Insurance Reform and Pennsylvania: The Case for Change is available now at http://www.healthreform.gov/ . “Families, seniors and businesses are all suffering ...
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• HHS Hosts Online Conference For Bloggers Today 3:30 ET

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 803
  Got questions about H1N1? Vaccine? New mutations? Go here and get some answers. November 23rd 3:30 PM EST H1N1 Briefing for Bloggers and Their Readers Join the live Webcast to learn detailed information about influenza prevention and treatment, warning signs for parents, anti-viral medications, and ...
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• CMS looks to EHR data to combat waste and fraud

  
  News — Authority: 127
  CMS is looking at EHR reporting as a way to help the embattled agency weed out payment inefficiencies and combat rampant Medicare and Medicaid fraud. "We hope to be able to use data available through the use of new electronic health record reporting that can help in the design of new and innovative approaches to ...
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• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 136
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
  5 days ago

• Live H1N1 Briefing for Bloggers and Our Readers Today

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 527
  Join the live Webcast to learn detailed information about influenza prevention and treatment, warning signs for parents, anti-viral medications, and vaccinations. A question and answer session will provide the opportunity to engage directly with leading communication and public health experts, including: Kathleen ...
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• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Pamela H...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Pamela Hyde as Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within HHS.
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• Headline Commentary Nov 9-22

  
  Health Content Advisors — Authority: 113
  »  Linda Peitzman, CMO of Wolters Kluwer Health, on Practicing EBM with Order Sets Very good article by Linda Peitzman, MD, CMO (Medical) of Wolters Kluwer Health on benefits of order sets. Article provides some detail on how to implement order sets to ensure everyone receives latest most current version. Note, ...
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• Todays vote in the Senate - Slavery?

  
  MAXINE — Authority: 113
  The U.S. Preventive Service Task Force announced Nov. 16, 2009, that it now recommends against annual mammograms for women 40 to 49 because the potential harms of routine screening in this age group outweigh the benefits. These downsides include radiation exposure, cost and the trauma of false positives. Many doctors ...
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• Boobs in Health Care Debate

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 429
  I really do try to be bipartisan and not use my reach to over 40,000 unique readers for political purposes, but felt compelled to write about this issue. I had my first mammogram last year. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer in her thirties so my physician thought it best for me to have  [...]
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• All Santa wants for Christmas: H1N1 vaccine

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 444
  November 20, 2009Updated H1N1 posts/symptoms/vaccineNot sure what the reasoning is. One of the Santas will be in close contact with 20-30 thousand children over a period of 4 weeks. It’s not so much for Santa’s protection as it is to hopefully prevent him from spread it. And what are those kids going to do when ...
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• Wasserman Schultz: New Mammogram Guidelines ‘Causing Mass Confusion’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 156
  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), a breast-cancer survivor, has been busy on the news shows this week, attacking the new guideline that women seek routine mammograms later in life. Last night, she was at it again, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that it’s “totally inappropriate” for a panel without ...
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• New Mammogram Guidelines: A Tempest in a Teapot?

  
  The Assertive Cancer Patient — Authority: 132
  All week Ive been hearing from women--and a few men--who are angry about the new mammogram guidelines put out by a government panel.  Then today I see a story which seems to say, "Never mind, everyone, just go back to what you were doing." HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a statement in which she said: "... ...
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• The Mammogram Panic, or, False Positives Are No Picnic

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  Inhale through your nose (be sure your abdomen moves, not just your chest). Exhale through your mouth. Slowly, now … OK, let’s talk about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation that women begin getting mammograms at age 50 instead of 40,…
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• HHS Task Force Mammogram Recs Slammed

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 439
  Cancer doc (left) tops bureaucrat (right) on cancer recs ( WUSA ). HHS Head Sibelius Says, Ignore Panel, Get Checked Michael Collins read more
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• Press Release of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

  
  OPNTALK — Authority: 134
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 Secretary Sebelius Statement on New Breast Cancer Recommendations HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued the following statement today on new breast cancer screening recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task ...
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