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Bill Complicates Drive to Add Primary Care Doctors

Pressure to keep down the health care legislation's cost has led Democrats to exclude one way of alleviating the projected shortage of primary care physicians.

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Schwartz Lauds Legislation

Catching up, this is from last Thursday: U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz voted in support of legislation today that will ensure fair and adequate payment for physicians who participate in Medicare. Ensuring fair reimbursement for doctors who accept Medicare is vital to protecting access to doctors for seniors and people with disabilities. The Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009, which passed 243...

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Bill Complicates Drive to Add Doctors

Some Democratic senators want to change health-care legislation to increase the number of primary-care doctors, heeding warnings that the bill could make it more difficult to find a doctor.

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The Latest Population Health Management Journal Summary For Your Summarized Reading Pleasure

Better late than never says the Disease Management Care Blog. Just like you, the DMCB's latest copy of the Population Health Management Journal has gone guiltily unread. Unable to resist any longer, it broke out the caffeinated beverages, donned it's reading spectacles and jumped in. It took notes and took no prisoners. Good thing. The holidays are fast approaching, time is tight and you need know...

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Is it something trained into high-ranking officers, or

does the rank somehow attract people who like to make up "See, I'm DOING SOMETHING!!" idiot rules? Soldiers assigned to Fort Hood will have to register their personal firearms with the director of emergency services, he added. Fort Hood is home to some 50,000 active-duty soldiers and 18,000 of the soldiers' family members. Hell, he even admits what good this is: But, Cone said, had the changes...

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American College Of Physicians To Recognize Melvin R. Kaplan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Melvin R. Kaplan, MD, FACP, a former Board Chair and one of the founders of the research institute that became Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), will be honored by the American College of Physicians for his lifetime devotion to the care of patients. At its April 22, 2010 meeting in Toronto, the American College of Physicians will present Dr. Kaplan...

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An Effective Solution To Managing Imaging Utilization: Computerized Order Entry/Decision Support Systems

Providing physicians with a computerized order entry/decision support system that provides immediate feedback regarding imaging appropriateness at the time of ordering may be an effective solution to managing imaging utilization, according to an article in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, (JACR).

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Value for Money-PCT Management

From Pulse , the whole thing: PCTs have sanctioned staggering increases in management salary costs, with spending soaring by a quarter in just the past two years, a Pulse investigation reveals. Many trusts project rises in management costs of 60% or more over the two-year period, with costs at one trust rising by more than 100%. The steep increases coincide with a period in which investment in primary...

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Initiative Could Result In Paradigm Shift In The Care Of Sickle Cell Patients

The Medical College of Georgia is leading an initiative that could result in a paradigm shift in the care of patients with sickle cell disease.

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Doctor provides care for self-employed

By Kristin Tillotson Star Tribune (Minneapolis) She wasn’t confused. The gallery is attached to her doctor’s office, a converted storefront in a northeast Minneapolis industrial building where Dr. Sam Willis has launched an experiment in practicing primary-care medicine.

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Uninsurance and Child Mortality

John Goodman and colleagues have long pointed out that being “uninsured” is not a meaningful indicator of access to medical care in the U.S. Uninsured Americans consume more primary care than “universally” insured Canadians. Patients in ERs are treated the same, whether they are uninsured or on Medicaid, and eligible patients can enroll in Medicaid after [...]

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Worried About A Teen?

If you are worried about your teen, here are some problem areas (from TeenScreen.org) to think about and mention to your teens primary care physician (PCP). Your doctor can help - talk with them. Depression or Anxiety (Internalizing problems) Feels sad or unhappy Worries a lot Feels hopeless Seems to be having less fun Down on him- or herself ADHD (Attention problems) Fidgety, unable to sit...

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November NICE Guidance

The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence has published new guidance for the month of November. There is one guidance document that has an impact in primary care. A public health guideline (QRG) recommends strategies to promote mental wellbeing in work. The guidance makes recommendations for employers of all sizes, employee representative groups and employees [...]

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GE Announces Certification Training, Sales and Marketing Best Practices Sharing for Regional Extension Centers

BARRINGTON, Ill. - GE Healthcare announced today a new offering designed to support organizations that will soon be charged with facilitating the monumental change of transitioning the vast number of independent primary care providers to meaningful use of an EMR: Healthcare IT Regional Exten

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Red Cross Exec: "Yup, They Are Death Panels"

Technically, Bernardine Healy, MD, is an EX-Red Cross official... The bill takes all sorts of choices out of patients' and doctors' hands. Even mammograms and prostate-specific antigen tests would be similarly restricted by the government for millions of people , and they actually serve as better examples of what happens more broadly to personal medical decision making in the new system. The ground...

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World Federation for Mental Health

World Federation for Mental Health - wellbeingnewseditor

Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > World Mental Health Day is celebrated on 10 October each year, or as close to that date as participating organisations can arrange their events. For 2009, the topic selected by the World Federation for Mental Health [WFMH] is ‘Mental Health in Primary Care: Enhancing Treatment and Promoting Mental Health’. The campaign materials have now been posted on the WFMH website,...

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National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - wellbeingnewseditor

Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE] has published new public health guidance on occupational therapy interventions and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care. There are 9.7 million people aged 65 and older in the UK and by 2020 one–in–five UK citizens will be...