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Health policy
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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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Grassley questions hospitals for HIT investigation
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz continue to stay on top of the stimulus/health information technology/Sen. Charles Grassley investigation story for…
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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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AP looks at drug resistance worldwide
The Associated Press has neatly wrapped up its wide-ranging look at drug resistance and the threat it poses to global…
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Reform bills would benefit Indian Health Service
Mark Trahant, writing for InvestigateWest, points out that, because it’s in both the House and Senate versions of the bill…
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List of lists: Top health stories of 2009
The end of the year brings us list after list of the best or top health and medical stories. Some…
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Calif. SSI payouts insufficient, lacking in oversight
Capital Public Radio’s Kelley Weiss explored how cuts to California’s Supplemental Security Income were impacting older disabled Californians and, in…
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Advocacy group: OSHA falls down on the job
Kirsten Stade, advocacy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, writes on The Hill‘s Congress Blog that the U.S. Occupational…
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Hospital says it gives content to short-staffed media
Lindsey Miller of Ragan Communications Inc., a publisher of corporate communications, writes that Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has…