5:00 p.m., Fri. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) strongly hinted that House would pass a sweeping health reform package Saturday night despite her second in command clearing the legislative calendar through Tuesday. ... FULL STORY
5:59 a.m., Sat. - The Department of Energy would spend $163 million through 2014 to evaluate and support projects to produce medical isotopes in the United States under a bill passed by the U. ... FULL STORY
HHS has issued an interim final rule that stiffen penalties for privacy and security violations under the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996. ... FULL STORY
I think we need government officials on both sides of the aisles to grow up! They are the most dysfunctional group of people I have ever seen. ... FULL STORY
The IOM published a report in June 2009 called Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which I read with interest and noted that no nurses were included on the IOM... ... FULL STORY
After reading the article “One-day stays a big reason for excess pay to hospitals, RAC project finds,” if I were a consumer of services, I would want to know specifically the criterion... ... FULL STORY
State lawmakers are criticizing a plan from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to ask outpatients for their permission to contact them about making donations to medical research. ... FULL STORY
This is the fourth installment for 2009 of the Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey. More survey results can be found at the Commonwealth Fund's Web site, commonwealthfund.org.
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