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• Seven Diabetes Stats

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 496
  1. If you live in the US, there’s a good chance you know someone diabetic. A full 24 million of the adults aged 20 (8% of the population) are diabetic, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 2. Once you become a diabetic, your life revolves around careful meal planning, blood sugar ...
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• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
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• HHS To Review Biological Weapon and Public Health Threat Readiness

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 509
  The U.S. Health and Human Services Department announced plans yesterday to reassess the nation’s attempts to produce vaccines and treatments for biological weapons and other public health threats, the Washington Post reported todayOn a day when the government announced it had made available less than half the ...
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• Clarifications: Obamacare, ACORN, Adam Lambert

  
  Gene's Blog — Authority: 475
  When you’re wrong, you’re wrong.  That’s why they put erasers at one end of pencils   and why newspapers feature “corrections,” admissions that they screwed up somehow.  I’m man enough to fess up to having made a few errors in the thousand or so posts on this blog and I hereby seek to rectify ...
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• Clarifications: Obamacare, ACORN, Adam Lambert

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  When you’re wrong, you’re wrong.  That’s why they put erasers at one end of pencils   and why newspapers feature “corrections,” admissions that they screwed up somehow.  I’m man enough to fess up to having made a few errors in the thousand or so posts on this blog and I hereby seek to rectify ...
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• Reading the Tea Leaves: CMS to Release MU Rules this Month

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 481
  The healthcare IT (HIT) industry waits with baited breath for the release of preliminary meaningful use (MU) rules, scheduled for later this month.  Why the baited breath?  Market has basically stalled as physicians & hospital CIOs hold off HIT purchases awaiting what will actually be asked of them to get those ...
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• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS’ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced today plans to make available $235 million to support an innovative Beacon Community Program.
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• HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan

  
  bluebeerriver — Authority: 136
  By: Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent November 26, 2009 A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up "secretary" 2,500 times. Thats because Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide ...
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• HHS to review policies for developing public health defenses

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 960
  A top Obama administration official, citing problems with the swine flu vaccination campaign and other shortcomings in preparedness, announced plans Tuesday for a major review of the federal governments policies for developing public health defenses.
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• Health Care’s Giant New Bureaucracy

  
  QandO — Authority: 142
  O ne of the persistent memes with this current round of health care reform is the counter-intuitive belief that adding 30+ million to the health care insurance roles and subsidizing them is going to save money. Another is that there won’t be more bureaucracy – that, in fact, this reform will streamline health ...
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• Top CMS Job Remains Empty – Does Anyone Really Want To Be the CMS Administrator?

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  This is a pressure cooker job for sure and one with a lot of responsibility for decisions, decisions that are hard and difficult to make as technology keeps changing the rules every day.  We have seen quite a few retire recently and I think this might just be the case.   On the other hand what is a CMS ...
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• (CSC) Computer Science Corporation Holds Large Project Pipeline

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 460
  Computer Science Corporation ( CSC ) continues its winning streak. The most recent gain involves the $2.9 billion information technology infrastructure management service agreement with Zurich Financial Services Group for a period of 10.5 years. Under the terms of the contract, Computer Sciences will centralize ...
  6 days ago

• HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan

  
  The Blog at Christian Truckers Network — Authority: 139
  A quick search of the Senate health bill will bring up “secretary” 2,500 times. That’s because Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the ...
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• Regulation of the Day 76: Generic Medication for Farm Animals

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 617
  If you put chlortetracycline powder in your farm animals’ drinking water to prevent disease, please be aware that a new federal rule now allows you to buy a generic version of the powder if you wish. Actually, I probably shouldn’t be calling that rule a “rule.” As the new rule states: This rule does not ...
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• HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 146
  Washington Examiner , “ HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan ” by Susan Ferrechio “Health and Human Services … doesn’t have any experience with this,” Haislmaier said. “I’m looking at the potential for this whole thing to just blow up on people because they have no idea what they are ...
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• Former HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Creates His Own Company – Leavitt Partners

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  Former HHS Director has created his own company, Leavitt Partners?    One area of focus from the website is “Private Equity”.    Will there be encouraging advice here on where to invest?  You can read about all the areas of focus here.     Taylor Leavitt is part of the team, (related?).  At any ...
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• HHS to award $80 million for HIT workforce training

  
  News — Authority: 127
  HHS has set aside $80 million in federal stimulus funding to develop and support the nations health IT workforce. The agency will award $70 million in grants to community colleges for health IT training programs, while the remaining $10 million will support development of educational materials for the classes. "The ...
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• HHS blog intended as forum about health IT

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 430
  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: 735
  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 ...
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• Finding flu vaccine information in one easy place

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 148
  Finding flu vaccine information in one easy place This year, it’s especially important to have clear information on what you can do to prepare for the flu season. With this in mind, we are happy to share a new feature for the U.S. which allows you to more easily find locations near you for getting [...]
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