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• EHRA code of conduct only a baby step toward greater patient safety

  
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  While the HIMSS EHRAs new Code of Conduct already has been heralded by the EHR vendor industry, I cant help but be a little cynical. read more
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• The endless debates about salt: Don’t worry. Eat (real) food

  
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  Since 1980, U.S. dietary guidelines have advised eating less sodium (salt is 40% sodium, 60% chloride).  Although sodium is an essential nutrient, most Americans consume way more than they need or is good for them—around 3,400 milligrams a day. The 2010 guidelines advised healthy people to consume no more ...
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• Theres a blueprint for gun-related research, but will Congress act?

  
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  CDC now has a blueprint for gun-related research. Back in January, President Barack Obama responded to the elementary school slaughter in Newtown, Connecticut, with 23 orders intended to reduce gun violence. One of those directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other scientific agencies to ...
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• Panel Urges Better Gathering of Gun-Violence Data

  
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  Public health researchers have long said that their work on gun violence has been complicated by a lack of data.        
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• Driving innovation in health through the use of open data: Health Datapalooza, Year 4

  
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  By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn First Posted at Health Populi on 6/4/2013 In the $3 trillion economy that is American health care, the role of information technology is central to transforming this economy. This week convened the fourth annual Health Datapalooza (HDP) in Washington DC, with the underlying theme, “health ...
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• No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet – NYTimes.com

  
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  In  a report  that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines. Those levels, 1,500 ...
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• As PEPFAR turns 10, we’re reading about growth, lessons, goals, and perils ahead

  
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  The 10th anniversary this week of the day Congress signed the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief into law has prompted celebration, reflection, caution, and a look at the road travelled, in What We’re Reading . . . Ten Years of Saving Millions of Lives: “Landmark scientific advances, coupled with lessons ...
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• Institute of Medicine Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight June 6-7, 2013, Webcast and Workshop

  
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  The Institute of Medicine will host “Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight – A Workshop and Webcast” on June 6 and 7, 2013. To attend in person, please register using the online form. A live video webcast of the workshop will be available. Registration for the webcast is NOT required. The workshop ...
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• Case Study in Making Patient Safety an Enduring Organizational Value

  
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  A Study on Making Patient Safety an Enduring Organizational Value Overview : In the decade since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its landmark report, To Err Is Human, there have been a number of successful efforts to improve patient safety in the United States. Nevertheless, the nation appears to be ...
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• Medicinal Marijuana Helps Elders Sleep and…

  
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  Ideally, using marijuana would normally lead to something no good. However, it seems that medical marijuana when taken properly can be a great aid, especially for the old folks who have been finding it hard to sleep at night. Such was the story of a widow, Cherie Scott, who has been having problems sleeping ever ...
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• Institute of Medicine Physical Activity, Academic Performance, and Equal Justice; NY Times Editorial

  
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  A report by the Institute of Medicine, a unit of the National Academy of Sciences, documents that physically fit students do better academically.  This is common sense.  This is what the best schools can provide when money is no object. Yet half the schools in California audited from 2004 to 2009 do not enforce ...
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• Editorial: Exercise and Academic Performance

  
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  Physical activity should be a core educational concern, not a dispensable option.
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• New Study Says Schools Should Play Primary Role in Boosting Students’ Physical Health

  
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  A new report issued today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and developed by two University of Texas at Austin professors, says schools should play a key role in ensuring all students have the opportunity to engage in at least 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity each day. Harold W. Kohl ...
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• American Heart Association says Institute of Medicine (IOM) report an incomplete review of Sodium’s Impact

  
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  Dallas, TX – The American Heart Association says a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) — Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence — is incomplete in its assessment of sodium’s impact on health because it does not focus its examinations on scientific evidence that links excess ...
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• Uncertainty Still Clouds Health Care Law

  
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    The New York Times summarizes quite accurately the current status of the Affordable Care Act. Three years after President Obama signed the health care reform law , there are concerns that the process of implementing it will be rocky. Even some of the law’s supporters are worried. Perhaps more ...
  4 weeks ago

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