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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 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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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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