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Government
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FCC’s broadband plan includes wireless health tech
The Federal Communications Commission will release a report next month outlining a national broadband plan that is expected to include…
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Calif. maternal death on rise, according to report
Citing investigators who wrote a yet-to-be-released report, Nathanael Johnson of California Watch reports that the “mortality rate of California women…
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More vets come home as result of psychiatric issues
On Shots, NPR’s Health Blog, Nadja Popovich reports on a recent Johns Hopkins study that found, more troops were evacuated…
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Is U.S. ready for Haiti-style mass casualty event?
The GAO’s latest release, “State Efforts to Plan for Medical Surge Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical…
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Gawande, Google and health systems analysis
Earlier this month, New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande brought his checklist gospel (video) to the President’s Council of…
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Open government directive bears fruit, databases
In December, 2009 Peter Orszag, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, issued an Open Government Directive…
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Health Policy and the Supreme Court
Sarasota Health News‘ David Gulliver and Health News Florida’s Mary Jo Melone considered exactly how last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling…
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How Health Policy lost popular support
Kaiser Health News staff writers, including Jordan Rau, Mary Agnes Carey, Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz, teamed up to figure…
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Myth surrounds reform’s ‘Safeway Amendment’
Throughout the health care reform process, politicians have held up Safeway’s health incentive program as a model for future government…
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FDA launches transparency site with help of tongue depressor
In the first step of a planned three-part transparency initiative, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rolled out FDA…