Breaking news on primarycare
Senate Poised To Pass COBRA Subsidy Extension, Medicare 'Doc Fix' published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on a jobs bill that would extend the COBRA subsidy program and Medicaid funding for states and prevent a Medicare reimbursement cut for doctors. The Associated Press: The bill "extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $132 billion to the budget deficit over the next year and a half. ...
Non-Profit Operations Plugging Health Care Gap In Chicago published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
Medill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that try to fill access-to-care gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care. "Community health centers ... are private, non-profit operations that fill a gap between for-profit health systems and free public health clinics...
Comparative Research Lags Far Behind Approval-Driven Evaluations published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
A new study has found that few drug evaluations compare treatments in ways that help doctors make better decisions, Reuters reports...
Integration Provides Better Health Outcomes - Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PST
The Government's new hospital funding package is a welcome first step in the health reform process, but will be better served when complemented through implementation of a preventive health strategy to help minimise hospitalisations, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says...
General Practitioners Participate In National Pain Summit On 11 March 2010 In Canberra published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PST
Concerns about the alarming number of Australians suffering from persisting pain during their lifetime underpins the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' (RACGP) participation at the National Pain Summit, which will be held in Canberra at Parliament House on 11 March 2010...
Care Improving, Cost Saving Indiana Network For Patient Care Expands published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST
The Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding beyond central Indiana to serve patients from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind...
Differing Patient And Doctor Expectations From Joint Replacement Surgeries published
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST
While physicians strive to set realistic expectations for patients undergoing knee and hip joint replacements, a new study reveals that doctor and patient expectations are sometimes not aligned...
Virgin Plans To Coordinate GP Care Across Country, UK published
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 PST
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin empire plans to use its newly acquired network of polyclinics to co-ordinate GP services across the country, Pulse can reveal...
Senate Test Vote Today On Bill To Extend COBRA Subsidy, Doc Fix And State Medicaid Funding published
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
The Senate is poised to consider a measure today that would include extending subsidies for COBRA benefits and unemployment insurance, prevent the Medicare payment cut for doctors and provide additional funding to state Medicaid programs...
Physician's Perspective: Bundling Medicare Payments Could Cut Costs, Without Reducing Quality published
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PST
The Washington Post has a section today titled "Scenes from the 21st century doctor's office." One feature, written by Manoj Jain, an infectious-disease specialist in Memphis, advocates for a new system of "bundled" Medicare payments to doctors. He notes that currently, "patients, insurance companies and Medicare pay separately for each procedure in the predominant 'fee-for-service' model...
Many Doctors, Hospitals Unhappy With Health IT Rules, Despite Windfall published
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PST
Though the federal government plans to give doctors up to $44,000 each, as well as millions of dollars to hospitals, to help buy health information technology, many providers are unhappy with the stimulus-funded program, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reports...
Need For Broader Use Of Individualized Learning Plans For Physicians published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
Physicians would be better prepared for the accelerating rate of scientific discovery - and more in step with the latest in patient-care - if they added an important tool to their medical bags: a plan for how to keep pace with emerging health-care advances...
Health Care Partnership Examined In Canadian Medical Association Journal published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients...
Computer Reminders For Physicians Less Effective Than Expected published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PST
Computer reminders to physicians regarding prescribing produce much smaller improvements than initially expected, found a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Computerized systems for entering orders and electronic medical records are the two most widely recommended improvements in health care...
Collaborative Care Plans Between Physicians And Pharmacists Have Little Impact On Clinical Outcomes published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PST
The use of a physician-pharmacist collaborative care plan to manage lipid control in patients with high cholesterol does not have significant clinical impact, found an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). The role of community pharmacists is expanding worldwide...
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: March/April 2010 published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PST
Convenience of Retail Health Clinics Attractive to Patients The time and cost savings offered by retail clinics are attractive to patients, and they are likely to seek care for minor illnesses there given sufficient cost savings, according to a telephone survey of nearly 500 adults...
Prostate Cancer Therapy Correlates To Specialist Seen published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PST
New research published in today's issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170, No. 5), by an investigator at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, shows that the type of specialist that men with localized prostate cancer see can influence the form of therapy they ultimately receive...
Preparing Tomorrow's Physicians Today published
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST
The world of medicine is rapidly changing. In less than 100 years the way medicine is practiced and administered has been transformed with the introduction of sanitation measures, pharmaceuticals and technology advances that are ever-evolving...
Legislation Requires Hospitals To Disclose Prices In Wisconsin published
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "The frustration of finding out what hospitals and doctors charge for common services -- from routine office visits to diagnostic tests and surgical procedures -- could soon get a lot easier in Wisconsin...
Study Examines Perceived Barriers To Care For At-Risk Patients With Diabetes published
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PST
Diabetes affects approximately 8 percent of the people in the United States and adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates two to four times higher than adults without diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association...
AMA Enters Health IT Partnerships published
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PST
The American Medical Association has made deals with computer retailer Dell, and Ingenix, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, to "help physicians adopt and implement electronic health records", the Chicago Tribune reports. The terms of the deals were not released, but one part of the arrangement with Ingenix will be to offer doctors a Web-based medical record system called CareTracker...
Federal Court Rejects California Medicaid Cuts published
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PST
The San Francisco Chronicle: "A federal appeals court barred California on Wednesday from lowering Medi-Cal payments to doctors and hospitals by 5 percent and from cutting in-home care workers' wages by nearly 20 percent, saying the state's budget crisis doesn't justify violating federal laws that protect the poor and disabled. In four rulings, the Ninth U.S...
Washington State Cracks Down On Prescription Fraud With New Paper And Ink published
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 PST
The Seattle Post Intelligencer/Everett Herald: "Patients who get written prescriptions will see changes this summer aimed at curbing fraud. Come July 1, prescriptions will be printed on tamper-resistant paper with Mission Impossible-like ink that changes color when rubbed with a finger...
New Jersey Hospital Offers Luxury With Health, Wellness published
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PST
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on Virtua Health system's newly opened Health and Wellness Center in New Jersey, and calls it "the new face of luxury." The center was a $31 million investment by the non-profit group and it is expected to do well. "While many New Jersey hospitals grapple with barely-there operating margins and a national slowdown in construction, Virtua is growing. ...
Treatment Errors Report, Germany published
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PST
Current health care is not as safe as it should be. In the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2010; 107[6]: 92-9), Barbara Hoffmann and Julia Rohe explain the reasons for adverse events, as well as measures to ensure better patient safety. Treatment can make you ill...
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