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Proposed Regs on Electronic Health Records Released by Medicare and ONC

December 30, 2009

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The United States is moving towards complete digitization of medical records and these proposed regs, recently issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), create financial incentives for health care workers to make “meaningful use” of electronic health records [...]

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Disability from Chronic Pain and the Toll It Takes on Families

December 29, 2009

Another study demonstrates what is well known anecdotally, that chronic pain heightens tensions between the caregiver and the one in chronic pain:
In a study in the December 2009 issue of the journal Pain, Cano and her colleagues followed 106 couples in which one partner had a chronic pain condition, such as arthritis or back pain [...]

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Disability and Navigating the Health Care System

December 29, 2009

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Illness and injury are no respecters of persons. They can strike at any time. In today’s Wall Street Journal online, a once wealthy fitness buff tells his story of navigating the health care system as he battles a rare form of cancer. Many questions left unanswered in the story but [...]

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Legal Research and Writing Using Scrivener v. Pages and Evernote: An Approach

December 26, 2009

David Sparks and Katie Floyd over at MacPowerUsers recently did a podcast on a Mac-only writing tool called Scrivener. (You might want to listen to their discussion before going any further.) As a Mac user and Scrivener owner who gave Scrivener to my English-major daughter for Christmas last year, I share much of David’s [...]

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Running Doesn’t Promote Arthritic Knees

December 26, 2009

Recent research suggests that not only does running not hasten the advent of arthritis in your knees but may actually protect your knees from injury.
. . . osteoarthritis, which affects nearly 20 million Americans, is caused mainly by genes and risk factors like obesity (obese men and women are at least four times [...]

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Health Care Bill May Help People with Disabilities

December 25, 2009

Although the public option is gone and there’s still a lot that could happen to the bill in conference, the new health care reform bill now pending in Congress does eliminate the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. For many people, coverage is the difference between productive [...]

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Food and Disease

December 19, 2009

Here’s an eye-opening 20-minute TED talk by Mark Bittman, a New York Times food writer, on food and health. Made me think how I (and a few of my clients) haven’t thought enough about food. Not diet or food preparation, just food. From among many memorable statements:
There is no question, none, that so called lifestyle [...]

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FDR Signs Social Security Act

FDR Signs the Social Security Act

December 18, 2009

This Year in History.
FDR signs the Social Security Act a mere 75 years ago this past August:

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Fourth Circuit Nominees Actually in Hearings

December 18, 2009

This is good news. It looks like the two nominees for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals have the support of both Senators Burr and Hagan:
Senator Burr, who introduced the nominees, asked the Committee to give the Judges an “expedited review and referral” to the full Senate. The process is already moving quickly. This [...]

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Snow Closes Social Security Offices

December 18, 2009

Got this email from Social Security and now post it to mark the day. A quite beautiful snow here in Winston-Salem.
Dear constituent,
Due to the snowstorm spreading across the southeast and Mid-Atlantic, numerous SSA field offices have either already closed or may close early today (December 18, 2009).
If you plan to conduct business with SSA [...]

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