Rabu, 25 Maret 2009

Electronic Medical Record Change Not Easy

Health insurers offer shift on premiums
A proposal from major companies to stop charging sick people more for coverage comes with conditions. The country's leading health insurers Tuesday offered to end their long-standing practice of charging sick customers higher premiums, a significant concession in the face of mounting criticism of the industry in Washington.


Electronic Medical Record Change Not Easy

President Barack Obama is making a major push for electronic medical records. But in a new study, Dr. Ashish Jha of Harvard University's School of Public Health finds 90 percent of the hospitals he surveyed have no electronic records. Jha discusses why it may be difficult to convert.


Metallica's tour is coming to Charlotte
Yes, Metallica's tour is indeed coming to North Carolina -- but the closest it will get is Charlotte's Time Warner Cable Arena on Oct. 18.
City tuberculosis rate hits historic low
Two-century record tied to TB control effort Baltimore has recorded the lowest rate of tuberculosis since it began keeping track of infection rates nearly two centuries ago, city officials said Tuesday.


HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Spacing Births for Mother and Child
KARACHI, Mar 25 (IPS)Health experts in Pakistan are now concentrating on getting women from all strata of society to space births.

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