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• When good intentions make bad policy – car seat edition

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  I recently got into a heated argument with a colleague over the use of car seats on an airplane. She felt that they should be mandatory for small children; I disagreed. You see (for those of you who don’t have kids), up until a child is two years old, you can choose to have them ride in your lap instead of buying ...
  19 hours ago

• How to tell if the ACA is working

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  As provisions of the ACA are implemented — if they are implemented — there will be a lot of competing claims about the extent to which they are working. How should we judge the effects of the law? Robert Brook , in JAMA, offers four principal metrics, though admits there are many other sensible ones as well. ...
  20 hours ago

• NHS faces peril if reform plans are derailed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Group of 50 GPs managing health services through clinical commissioning groups say they are already improving services The NHS could be "in peril" if the governments plans to overhaul it are derailed by doctors and nurses organisations, a group of GPs piloting the reforms has warned. The health secretary, Andrew ...
  3 days ago

• We need to move on from this polarised debate on the NHS bill | Chris Ham

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  The time for grandstanding has passed. Compromise is a small price to pay for an outcome that is good for patients The latest storm over the governments health shakeup signals that the NHS may yet provide David Cameron with the biggest challenge of his premiership. Try as they might, ministers cannot dismiss the ...
  4 days ago

• QD: News Every Day--Does Massachusetts predict federal health care reforms impact?

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 116
  Massachusetts residents reported that 94.2% of the states adult nonelderly residents have health insurance, a significant increase over the 86.6 percent estimate of 2006, the year that Massachusettss health reform bill went into effect. Massachusetts health insurance penetration rates are far above an estimated ...
  4 days ago

• UNDERSTAND YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY BEFORE YOU NEED IT

  
  Dr Martello Skincare | Identify Your Health — Authority: 107
  Don’t wait for for until the healing puncture or seizure occurs prior to to we assimilate your illness word policy. Although perplexing to review your process might be as engaging as examination paint dry as well as additionally confusing, it is critical to during slightest great sufficient report about your process ...
  4 days ago

• QD: News Every Day--Top 10 technologies a hospital might test this year

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 116
  A top 10 list of important technologies and technology-related issues that hospital and health system leaders should pay close attention to this year questions each the need for each one based on economics, patient safety, reimbursement and regulatory pressures, as assessed by staff at the ECRI Institute. 1) ...
  5 days ago

• Why Only Non-Health Care Business Can Save America From The Health Care Industry

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 114
  Brian Klepper Posted 1/26/12 on Care & Cost The attached PP deck is a presentation I’ve given several times that has received an overwhelmingly positive, if frightened, reception. It is, perhaps, the most disturbing public argument of my career (which is going some), because it tries to document the health ...
  5 days ago

• Mental health clubhouse model

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  Taylor Sisk with an interesting story on the Clubhouse model of mental health treatment for persistent mental illness, with this example being the reported success of Club Nova in Chapel Hill, N.C. “Before Club Nova,” said Jim Huegerich, director of Crisis and Human Services for the Chapel Hill Police ...
  6 days ago

• NHS reforms: Lansley defends shakeup after scathing report from MPs

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Health select committee says hospitals are resorting to salami slicing as they try to find £20bn in efficiency savings Andrew Lansley , the health secretary, has defended his NHS shakeup in the face of a scathing report from MPs which said the overhaul was undermining efforts to cut spending and make the health ...
  1 week ago

• What can Dartmouth do?

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  Last week, members of the American College of Physicians published an  Annals of Internal Medicine paper  with the abstract: Unsustainable rising health care costs in the United States have made reducing costs while maintaining high-quality health care a national priority. The overuse of some screening and ...
  1 week ago

• The NHS bill will have catastrophic consequences. It must be opposed | Aseem Malhotra

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 133
  Andrew Lansley is leading us to an Americanised system of privatised care with no accountability. We will all be worse off A taxi driver recently turned to me, two days after receiving a life-saving treatment for a heart attack, and said: "Thank you for saving my life, doctor, I am so proud of our NHS. There is no ...
  1 week ago

• Ways To Obtain The Top Benefits Out Of Your Medical Health Insurance

  
  Health till 100 — Authority: 132
  Do you know that emotional stress can really put an end to your life? It is no wonder that a lot more men and women have health related problems in comparison to the ones that were living several decades ago. You could find a number of health insurance firms in your town, even when you reside in a smaller one. You ...
  1 week ago

• New Federal Policy Initiatives To Boost Health Literacy Can Help The Nation Move Beyond The Cycle Of Costly ‘Crisis Care’ [Web First]

  
  Latest News Today — Authority: 444
  Health literacy is the capacity to understand basic health information and make appropriate health decisions. Tens of millions of Americans have limited health literacy—a fact that poses major challenges for the delivery of high-quality care. Despite its importance, health literacy has until recently been ...
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• Straight From the Source

  
  BioSyndica — Authority: 85
  Today, Biosyndica is adding a ‘Press Release‘ page. Here you can find links to source material to a growing collection of key biology-related public policy players across the spectrum. This increases transparency by eliminating the media opinion and allows you … Continue reading →
  1 week ago

• Making care more bearable for families

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  I spent yesterday talking with men and women who help to care for seriously ill infants and children. I also talked with some parents. It’s always a punch in the gut to confront in some granularity the challenges that people actually face–not only the children and their parents, but the people who care for them, ...
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• Need to strengthen mental health services in country: Azad

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 533
  Bangalore, Jan 20 (IANS) Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Friday announced the establishment of an advanced mental health research centre here to provide efficient mental health facilities to people.Speaking at the convocation ceremony at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) ...
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• Why Paula Deen’s Diabetes is Your Problem Too

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 114
  By Mary Hartley RD MPH First posted on Ask Mary RD on 1/17/2012 Did y’all see Paula Deen’s interview with Al Roker today on Today? The deep-fat fried food queen talked about having type 2 diabetes for the past three years. She delayed telling us until she could “bring something to the table.” That something ...
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• Tennessee Hospital Forced To Adhere to “Morally Acceptable Parameters” After Catholic Merger

  
  Health Policy Blog — Authority: 113
  With a crisis in our health care system, more hospitals are shuttering or merging in an attempt to remain viable, especially those who take on the poor and uninsured.  Unfortunately, many of the strongest and most enduring hospitals are Catholic-based, and often do not offer the full range of health care options ...
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• Nurses concerns about NHS reform have been largely ignored | Peter Carter

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 133
  The RCN tried to help shape the health and social care bill but we have not been heard. This bill should be scrapped The politics of reform is never an easy process. That said, few pieces of legislation have garnered quite as much controversy, debate and discussion as the health and social care bill. The governments ...
  1 week ago

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