The convergence of personal health records and mobile communication devices may provide the mechanism to engage consumers to use technology to enhance self-care, taking cost out of the health care system, according to a new Deloitte Issue Brief released by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions…
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No Comments »News outlets covered various aspects of health care politics. NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday interviewed Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli about the state’s challenge to the federal government’s health law requiring people to purchase health insurance. Cuccinelli said a judge that refused to throw out his case “did not say it’s unconstitutional. But he did say that this legislation goes farther than anything that has been held constitutional under the Commerce Clause and it goes farther than anything that has been held constitutional under the taxing power before…
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Posted in community health Tags: Attorney, General, Governor, health, Mandate, Missouri, Reform, Reverberating, Still, Talk, Virginia, Vote No Comments »The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s annual release of state-by-state quality data has been expanded to include new data on health insurance, including data on health care quality categorized by source of payment, including private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and those without insurance. The 2009 State Snapshots are available here. The new health insurance section allows users to compare payer-specific quality rates as well as differences among payers…
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Posted in community health Tags: Data, Expanded, health, include, Insurance, Quality, Snapshots, State No Comments »U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Pamela Arrey, age 49, of Glenelg, Maryland, a licensed pharmacist, to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for health care fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to misbrand pharmaceuticals. Judge Garbis also entered an order that Arrey forfeit her home and pay restitution of $505,745.89. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J…
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Posted in community health Tags: Aggravated, Care, Conspiracy, Drugs, Fraud, health, Identity, Misbrand, Over, Owner, Pharmacy, Sentenced, Theft, Years No Comments »The Promise Of Prevention Politico “This new law could turn the current ‘sick care’ system, which focuses on treating those who are ill, into one that does a far better job of keeping people healthy. … The new health care law could transform the role of prevention by taking unprecedented national approaches to avert chronic disease or detect it early” (Josh Seffrin, Larry Hausner and Nancy Brown, 6/15)…
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Posted in community health Tags: Collins, Controversies, Hamburg, Medicine, OpEds, Personalized, Prevention, Promise, Today's No Comments »In a move to address growing interest in more efficient, integrated regional health care services for patients, officials of Sibley Memorial Hospital and The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation have announced their intention to enter into discussions regarding the integration of Sibley Hospital into the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS). Both systems say it is anticipated that Sibley will join JHHS in early fall 2010 after due diligence is completed. The proposed transaction will not involve financial exchanges…
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Posted in community health Tags: Hopkins, Hospital, Johns, Join, Medicine, Memorial, Sibley No Comments »Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Barbara Kennelly of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Dr. Ben Williamowsky of Silver Spring, Md., a Medicare recipient, held a news conference to discuss benefits of and misconceptions about the Affordable Care Act and Medicare. The participants highlighted a four-page brochure, “Medicare and the New Health Care Law, What it Means for You,” which was mailed by HHS this week to seniors…
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Posted in community health Tags: Count, Ensure, Generations', health, Improve, Medicare, Passed, Pelosi, Reform, Seniors No Comments »Orlando Sentinel: As “the region continues to attract residents from all over the country and the world, local health care providers and educators are searching for ways to better serve them.” Some use “cultural toolkits,” and have guides to help providers relate to patients’ cultural and religious preferences. “‘From a business perspective, it makes a lot of sense,’ said Bernardo Ramirez, assistant professor of health services administration at the University of Central Florida…
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“More than 40 percent of employers surveyed by the consulting firm Mercer expect health care reform to raise health care costs by a modest 2 percent or less next year,” the Associated Press reports. “A quarter of those surveyed believe reform will add at least 3 percent to their projected costs for 2011, while 3 percent of the employers expect no increase” (5/20)…
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Posted in community health Tags: costs, Employers, health, Increase, Reform, Somewhat, Survey No Comments »Medicare’s Part D prescription medication management program, also known as Medication Therapy Management, could be off limits to some of the patients who need it most older African-Americans and Hispanics a new study finds. Medicare introduced the program, Medication Therapy Management or MTM, in 2006 as part of the Part D prescription drug program. MTM provides face-to-face counseling, phone consultation or consultations by mail with pharmacists or other health care providers to help people with chronic illness resolve problems with taking medications…
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