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Former FDA Commissioner, CMS Administrator McClellan adds Johnson and Johnson Board Membership to Positions with General Atlantic LLC, Capital Royalty, Castlight Health, and AvivReit
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12:54 PM
Our latest example of the interchangeability of top insiders within corporate health care and the government agencies that are supposed to r...
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The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2: The NWB Methodology
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6:53 PM
The Final Rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been released. It is at this link (PDF). It is a mere 672 pages in length, a quick read dur...
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Divide by Zero: Weird Math in CMS Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) Criteria
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6:13 AM
From the CMS " Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program - ATTESTATION USER GUIDE For Eligible Professionals (EPs) ...
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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Quiet Coziness with Wall Street
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9:21 AM
An article from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) reveals a new aspect of the growing coziness between the US government and big c...
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Novel Idea on Healthcare IT: Worth a Billion Dollars!
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4:56 AM
From an AMIA announcement: CMS Innovation Center Announces $1 Billion Funding Opportunity: CMS announced a new initiative, the Health Care ...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
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Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...