Monday, April 16, 2012

Health Care News--4.16.12

 
Without health care reform, 20-somethings out of luck
CNN
By Jessica Dickler @CNNMoney April 16, 2012: 7:30 AM ET Before the Affordable Care Act young adults had the highest uninsured rate of any age group for health care in the country. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When you're young, health insurance is hardly a ...
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Spacelabs Healthcare to Exhibit at China International Medicinal Equipment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ISSAQUAH, Wash., Apr 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Spacelabs Healthcare will display its wide portfolio of patient monitoring & connectivity, diagnostic cardiology, and anesthesia delivery solutions on April 17-20 at CMEF, Asia-Pacific's largest ...
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Northern Health Drives Improved Care, Efficiency With DotNetNuke
MarketWatch (press release)
Prior to updating to DotNetNuke Professional Edition, Northern Health's website was outdated, costly and difficult to maintain. The organization delivers services to approximately 300000 people in British Columbia, including over two dozen hospitals ...
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The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care
Wall Street Journal
But now health-care providers are also adding a whole different, more subjective measure—how people feel about their condition and overall well-being. They're pushing for programs where nurses or trained counselors meet with people and ask personal ...
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She braves bullets to bring healthcare to women (Feature)
New York Daily News
In the rural healthcare system, an ANM is the key field level functionary who interacts directly with the community and has been the central focus of all the reproductive child health programmes. The ANM mans the sub-centre - the first contact point ...
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Health-care case puts Congress on trial
Palm Beach Post
Joe Pitts (left), R-Pa., and Fred Upton, R-Mich., speaks after the House voted March 22 to cut a Medicare cost-control board from the health care law. President Obama says the Supreme Court hasn't overturned an economic issue passed by Congress since ...
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Palm Beach Post
SF hospital deal could raise health care costs
San Francisco Chronicle
There is growing concern among some city leaders that a controversial deal Mayor Ed Lee has struck with California Pacific Medical Center to build a 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill will undermine San Francisco's efforts to control health care costs.
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Health care debate illustrates how politicans reach too far
Arizona Daily Wildcat
President Barack Obama needs to be patient and wait for the Supreme Court's health care ruling. Obama doesn't seem to worried about the fate of his health care law. He said he is confident the Supreme Court won't "take what would be an unprecedented ...
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What about single-payer?
Baltimore Sun
By James F. Burdick President Barack Obama's vision for health-care reform could have resulted in a much better law had it not been for congressional decrees at the start that a single-payer system was "off the table." But guess what has appeared back ...
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National day to support end-of-life health-care planning
San Jose Mercury News
The experience was so traumatic that the San Jose-based attorney, 43, has devoted her career to elder law and will spend Monday -- National Healthcare Decisions Day -- helping clients document their wishes by completing advance health care directives.
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Blogs
 
New health-care mandate: Send parents to doctor
By -NO AUTHOR-
There's a potential new health-care mandate developing in the state of California, where lawmakers want to crack down on parents to have concerns over the state-required vaccine injections for their children. Unrelated to Obamacare, but ...
WND
Will the ONC provide a huge stimulus to Health 2.0 startups? | The ...
By Dave Chase
I would argue nothing would result in population health improvement (while decreasing healthcare costs) more than having greater engagement by patients in the healthcare process. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) could ...
The Health Care Blog
The Epiphanic Ron Johnson Moment! Fumbles Health Care Mandate.
By Democurmudgeon
Johnson thinks the conservative Heritage Foundation's idea of a health care mandate had something to do with the Massachusetts plan, and not a "tactical" counter proposal to fight "HillaryCare." The Gingrich Republicans backed up such a ...
Democurmudgeon
Nominations sought for Health Care Heroes | Crain's Detroit Business
Crain's Detroit Business is seeking nominations for Health Care Heroes, a special report on health care professionals that will run in the Sept. 10 issue. The program will honor top-notch medical innovators and patient advocates. Winners will ...
Crain's Detroit Business - News Feeds
Why Knowing Your Audience Is Critical To Healthcare Social Media ...
By Marie Ennis O'Connor
Image EXCLUSIVE POST - More than any other form of marketing, social media is a conversation with your audience. It may seem like I have just stated the obvious, but it is amazing how often the audience gets left out of the healthcare social ...
HealthWorks Collective - The...

Web
 
Einer Elhauge: If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional ...
That's right, Congress enacted an individual mandate requiring the purchase of health ...
www.tnr.com/.../individual-mandate-history-affordable-care-a...

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