News outlets examine health policy issues around the country.
The Seattle Times: Gregoire Outlines Grim Choices For Budget Cuts For the fourth year in a row, Gov. Chris Gregoire on Thursday outlined more than $1.5 billion in state cuts to health care, social services, prisons and education.The latest round would increase public-school class sizes, eliminate subsidized health care for the working poor and release hundreds of inmates early…. The state’s Basic Health Plan would close, ending state-subsidized insurance for about 35,000 low-income people (Garber, 10/28).
The Associated Press: Doctors To Sue Over New Kan. A
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iWatch News/The Center For Public Integrity: Health Information Technology: Incentives May Not Always Serve Intended Purpose About half of the first batch of federal dollars meant to encourage doctors and hospitals to switch to electronic records went to providers who were converts to the technology long before the stimulus program was announced, an iWatch News analysis suggests. The analysis could raise questions about whether the government will be able to meet its goal of widespread adoption of health information technology (Israel and Leonard, 10/12).
Reuters reports on a new poll of health executives that indicates that the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients’ digital health records. Still, according to the Boston Globe, Dr. David Blumenthal, offered a positive view of medical technology in a Wednesday night speech, saying that electronic medical records made him a better doctor.
Reuters: Health Industry Lacks Patient Data Safeguards: Poll New technologies are flooding into the health care world, but the industry is not adequately prepared to protect patients from data breaches, according to a report published on Thursday.
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- Testicular Cancer
- Symptoms of Testicular Cancer
- Signs of Testicular Cancer
- How to check for testicular cancer
- What does testicular cancer look like?
- Testicular Cancer Pictures
- Causes of Testicular Cancer
- Testicular Cancer Statistics
- Testicular Cancer Prognosis
- Testicular Cancer Screening
- Testicular Cancer Staging
- Testicular Cancer Survival Rate
- Testicular Cancer Prevention
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- Diaphoresis
- Diaphoresis Definition
- Diaphoresis Causes
- Diaphoresis Symptoms
- Diaphoresis Tests
- Diaphoresis Differential Diagnosis
- Diaphoresis Treatment
- Diaphoresis Prognosis
- Diaphoresis Complications
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