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  • Seven Diabetes Stats


    FooducateAuthority 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 ...
    1 day ago
  • Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface


    Information Security ResourcesAuthority 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 ...
    3 days ago
  • HHS To Review Biological Weapon and Public Health Threat Readiness


    Homeland Security NewsAuthority 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 ...
    3 days ago
  • Clarifications: Obamacare, ACORN, Adam Lambert


    Gene's BlogAuthority 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 ...
    4 days ago
  • Clarifications: Obamacare, ACORN, Adam Lambert


    American Conservative DailyAuthority 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 ...
    4 days ago
  • Reading the Tea Leaves: CMS to Release MU Rules this Month


    Chilmark ResearchAuthority 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 ...
    4 days ago
  • HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Plans to Establish Health IT


    Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.comAuthority 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.
    4 days ago
  • HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan


    bluebeerriverAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • HHS to review policies for developing public health defenses


    The Washington PostAuthority 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.
    5 days ago
  • Health Care’s Giant New Bureaucracy


    QandOAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • Top CMS Job Remains Empty – Does Anyone Really Want To Be the CMS Administrator?


    The Medical QuackAuthority 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 ...
    5 days ago
  • (CSC) Computer Science Corporation Holds Large Project Pipeline


    Stock Blog HubAuthority 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 NetworkAuthority 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • Regulation of the Day 76: Generic Medication for Farm Animals


    OpenMarket.orgAuthority 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • HHS would become federal giant under Senate plan


    osmoothieAuthority 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • Former HHS Secretary Michael O. Leavitt Creates His Own Company – Leavitt Partners


    The Medical QuackAuthority 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • HHS to award $80 million for HIT workforce training


    NewsAuthority 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 ...
    6 days ago
  • HHS blog intended as forum about health IT


    Covering HealthAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Weekly Pulse: Crunch Time in the Senate


    RHRealityCheck.orgAuthority 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 ...
    1 week ago
  • Finding flu vaccine information in one easy place


    WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSSAuthority 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 [...]
    1 week ago

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