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Doctors face obstacles in transition to costly EMRs
In his American Journey blog, the Wall Street Journal‘s Andy Jordan considered the impact of stimulus funds on the health-care…
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Study advocates evidence-based medical guidelines
In USA Today, Steve Sternberg covers a study which found that guidelines used to treat cardiac patients are often not…
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Covering Health Policy and Obama’s proposed budget
President Obama has presented his budget outline to Congress, including a proposal for $634 billion for U.S. health care, including…
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Subsidized programs struggle to attract uninsured
Lori Aratani reported in The Washington Post on the difficulties officials face when working to draw the uninsured into subsidized…
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$150 billion of stimulus headed to health care
Dr. Robert Steinbrook broke down health care’s share of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – also known as the…
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Stimulus initiative stirs up controversy
In the Los Angeles Times, Noam N. Levey reviews the controversy that broke out when President Obama included money in…
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Stimulus funds study of effectiveness of treatments
Robert Pear reports in The New York Times that $1.1 billion of the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package will…
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Jost discusses consumer-driven health plans
In the latest installment of the Columbia Journalism Review‘s “Excluded Voices” series, Trudy Lieberman, president of AHCJ’s board of directors,…
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Medical economist has questions for Obama
On NiemanWatchdog.org, medical economist and scholar Rashi Fein has six questions for Obama about health care reform. Each of the…
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Group tackles shady practices of Calif. insurers
In California Lawyer, Jeanette Borzo tells the story of how Los Angeles city attorneys and a private law firm teamed…