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Community paramedics program could help provide primary-care services, help address state's provider shortage
Next spring, the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services could establish a community paramedics pilot program that has the potential ...
Health care's culture doesn't encourage doctors to report medical errors of colleagues; article says patients should come first
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Doctors are often aware of their colleagues' medical errors, but fail to report them because of ...
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Prescriptions for better health care and health: empowering patients, increasing health education and collaboration
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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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1 in 3 don't get potentially life-saving screening for colon cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in Ky. and U.S.
Federal officials said Tuesday that although detecting colon cancer early saves lives, only about two-thirds of Americans aged 50 to 75 have...
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Primary care clinics added to Ky. Health Cooperative's network
The Kentucky Primary Care Association , a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care servic...
Physicians say they dislike regulations on use of electronic health records, but they don't want to go back to paper records
Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes
New survey shows physicians feel need to limit health-care costs but make that secondary to the interests of their patients
A new survey about health-care costs reveals that 85 percent of U.S. physicians feel a responsibility to address costs but say other profess...
Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road
Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
Rushed transition to managed care is cautionary tale for other states, especially those with large rural populations
As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
New York Times starts series that will study Affordable Care Act's implementation and impact in Louisville area
Kentucky and online audiences hear discussion of proposed system for patients to report medical errors; comments due July 8
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration is creating a new system for patients to report medical mistakes because exi...
AMA calls obesity a disease; could spur coverage for treatment
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Lexington internist, Dr. Ardis Hoven, becomes president of the AMA, the nation's largest physician organization
Ky. is already short of doctors, dentists; how will its health-care system handle expansion of Medicaid and private insurance?
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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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...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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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...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
