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• Chemical in plastic bottles linked to impotence

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  Source: MSNBC NEW YORK – Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that’s been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers reported Wednesday. Heavy exposure to BPA, or bisphenol A, on the job was linked to impotence and lower sexual desire ...
  4 hours ago

• EHR System Could Help Reduce Hip Fractures says Kaiser

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 125
  HealthConnect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic health record system in California, is in the process of formulating a new osteoporosis prevention program that could significantly drop cases of hip fractures in the nation by 25 percent.Coined the world’s largest civilian EHR database, HealthConnect will assist the ...
  15 hours ago

• Workplace BPA exposure increases risk of male sexual dysfunction

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  (Kaiser Permanente) Study found high levels of workplace exposure to Bisphenol-A may increase the risk of reduced sexual function in men. This is the first human study to look at the effect of BPA on the male reproductive system. Rodent studies have shown BPAs detrimental effect on male reproductive system. The ...
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• Voice of the Audience: WHIT 5.0 “Beyond the PHR”

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 427
  We can listen to the thoughts of the audience as much as we listen to the thoughts of the panelists, and you. At today’s presentation at WHIT 5.0, I asked every audience member to write down something on a note card about what they heard today about using social media to engage patients and change the health care ...
  1 day ago

• Kaiser Permanente Has Wii Sports On Its Mind [Creative Marketing]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 822
  What better way for insurance company Kaiser Permanente to promote a healthy lifestyle than strapping television monitors playing Wii Sports to the heads of its marketing team? Members of the Kaiser Permanente "Pixmen" marketing team took to the halls of Honolulus Ala Moana Center mall yesterday to demonstrate ...
  2 days ago

• Another Great Swindle: Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma as Much to Blame as Insurers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  While the health insurance industry’s immoral, amoral and, sometimes, illegal treatment of policyholders is an appropriate prime culprit and target in the current push for reform, the fact is that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 days ago

• Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio

  
  2parse — Authority: 128
  Kaiser Permanente . Ezra Klein interviewed Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson this week – and got two fascinating posts out of it so far (with the second part of the interview still to come.) The most interesting post for me was the one that included a number of graphs , including this one.  Ezra bills these ...
  5 days ago

• Berkeley Psych on Teenagers, Depression, Sleep and the Internet

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 507
  A weird foursome: could it be that teenagers prone to depression sleep less and use the internet more, resulting in worse depression and tossing them into a real nasty sleep minimizing, internet and depression maximizing situation? Of course we, sound and sturdy early twenty-somethings that we are, are far beyond ...
  6 days ago

• I’d Laugh If I Wasn’t Screaming

  
  Media and Mayhem — Authority: 122
  Absolutely and mind-bogglingly astounding. Today, in a compelling demonstration of just how compassionate and altruistic some people can be, thousands of people with health insurance gathered on capitol hill to protest a bill that would provide some coverage for those who are not covered . What happened to ...
  6 days ago

• Presentation: Prevention and Screening – Informatics for Consumer Health

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 427
  Below are high quality images of the slides I presented at the Informatics for Consumer Health Summit, at the Bolger Center for Leadership , in Potomac, MD. I didn’t know the U.S. Postal Service had such a nice facility, I guess that is a part of the fun of discovering new parts of this part of the country. ...
  6 days ago

• Kaiser Permanente: Save Trees and Thrive

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 523
  Kaiser Permanente is prescribing big doses of sustainability in the sixth season of its $50 million Thrive ad campaign. Two new ads – Emerald Cities and Connected – reinforce the health care provider’s commitment to the planet by dramatically reducing paper use – no small task for an industry long married to ...
  6 days ago

• Health Insurance Companies Pushing Alternative Medicine to Cut Costs?

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 135
  Health insurance companies are constantly in search of ways to save money.  Some of their methods, such as refusing to cover those with pre-existing conditions that their underwriters deem too high risk, have drawn fire from consumers and politicians. Now, some insurers are promoting alternative medicine. With some ...
  1 week ago

• 45 Million Uninsured: Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 118
  By Loyd Eskildson Almost everybody already knows that American health care costs about double that of other developed nations, that about 45 million Americans lack health insurance , and that health care costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. Thus, Washingtons efforts at reforming health care by ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s Compare US Health Care Costs With Other Countries

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  The Wash Post’s Ezra Klein interviewed the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and found massive differences when looking at health care costs in the US and other countries. Yes, it’s not even close. read more
  1 week ago

• Nations hip fracture rate could drop 25 percent with aggressive osteoporosis prevention

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  November 2, 2009 (Downey, Calif.) -- Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, according to a Kaiser Permanente
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• Why American Health Care Is So Expensive

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Ezra Klein , channeling Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As Halvorson explained, and academics and consultancies have repeatedly ...
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• What is a Yacker Tracker – Ask Kaiser About Noise Control in Hospitals

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  I think everyone who has been in a hospital for care at some point in time can agree, they can be noisy.  The Yacker Tracker at the facility in Hawaii helps keep this in check.  Not only do we monitor data today, but add noise to the list too.  It looks very similar to a traffic signal.  They also have a “low ...
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• Innovation Learning Network In Person Meeting – Boston

  
  Ted Eytan, MD — Authority: 427
  I enjoy participating in the Innovation Learning Network because it brings parts of health care and other industries interested in the improvement of the art, science, and technology we use in health care rather than in those things themselves. Plus the people are great; and I don’t mean ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oh for a health care monopsony

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 422
  Those who blame for-profit health insurers for high U.S. health care costs usually focus on administrative and marketing costs. As Ezra Klein has highlighted , however, these are difficult to calculate; theyre not always significantly higher in the private sector than in the public; and they dont fly as a primary ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Kaiser Permanente BioBank - 100k Volunteers and Growing

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 592
  Kaiser has collected more than 100,000 genetic and medical profiles using spit collection kits like this one. It stands to reason that if you want to perform genetic research, you are going to need some genetic samples. While you could always go out and collect your own, Kaiser Permanente is doing much of the work ...
  2 weeks ago

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