MedPage Today MedPage Plus MedPage Today, NJ I agree that primary care is an urgent problem, but there are also huge problems in the emergency care safety net, and it was disappointing that the OHCR staffer couldn't be bothered to brief herself on them before coming to a conference of ER docs. ... |
 Health Newstrack | Racial, ethnic care disparities still exist: NBGH Business Insurance, IL Racial and ethnic disparities in health care continue to exist even among employees who have equal health benefits, yet few employers are addressing the problem, according to an issue brief by the National Business Group on Health. ... National Business Group on Health Releases Issue Brief on Health ... |
From Protest to Coalition Politics in the Fight for Health Reform Huffington Post, NY If you care about health reform, if you aspire to a single-payer plan, don't sit on your hands. Now is the time to do everything you can to help. Note to readers: I am cross-posting this (with permission and mild edits) from democracyforamerica.com. ... |
Government Regulators, Enforcers Raise the Stakes for Hospital ... Atlantic Information Services, Inc., DC For example, board members should be able to read quality scorecards, understand national health-care quality trends and grasp the implications of quality as a governance issue. Guidance in this arena is available from various documents published by ... |
Weekly Calendar Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD Sponsored by Mathematics. 304/308 Krieger. HW Tues., April 21, 12:30 pm The WP Carey Global Leader Lecture Series — "Challenges of Foreign Assistance in Today's World" by Helene Gayle, president/CEO of CARE USA. (See "In Brief," in this issue. ... |
NIDA Launches Drug Use Screening Tools for Physicians National Institutes of Health (press release) Washington, DC – The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today unveiled its first comprehensive Physicians' Outreach Initiative, NIDAMED, which gives medical professionals tools and resources to screen ... NIDA Launches Drug Use Screening Tools for Physicians |
Overcoming Language Barriers in Health Care Interactions Docuticker Language barriers in the health care setting can lead to miscommunications and cause medical errors, delay or denial of services, issues with medication management, and underutilization of preventive services. A new policy brief from Mathematica Policy ... |
Springtime in the City Roll Call (subscription), DC First up is health care, with both the American Heart Association and the American Hospital Association bringing advocates to Washington this month. More than 450 heart disease and stroke survivors, dressed in red, will pound the halls of Congress on ... |
Gay marriage: religious or secular institution? University at Buffalo The Spectrum, NY Any discussion on children first and foremost should be about better health care and education. How about offering better family income to provide more for kids and decreasing exposure to violence? Banning gay marriage doesn't do any of this. ... |
Emergency bid to halt San Francisco health spending mandate fails American Medical News (subscription) In court briefs, the trade group said the issue is one of "great national importance" because a proliferation of differing local laws could disrupt employers' ability to offer health coverage widely and uniformly to workers through the federal Employee ... |
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