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L.A. County orders mandatory flu shots for all healthcare personnel
By CBSLA.com | October 16, 2013
Getting a flu shot will be a requirement this year for all healthcare personnel in Los Angeles County. County Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding issued an order Tuesday mandating that healthcare personnel in each licensed acute care hospital, skilled nursing facility, and intermediate...
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Maryland health exchange data privacy under the microscope
By Baltimore Sun | October 16, 2013
Marylanders who signed up for coverage through the state's new health insurance exchange did so under the condition that their information could be shared with law enforcement. That condition has sparked debate about privacy concerns.
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Conversion to electronic records piles work on top of care, doctors say
By Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S.D.) | October 16, 2013
Converting to electronic health records has been a potentially helpful process, but also one that has frustrated South Dakota doctors who find the changeover cumbersome and inefficient, officials said.
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Abbott surprises with huge dividend boost, shares jump
By Reuters | October 16, 2013
Abbott Laboratories reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its diagnostics, and surprised investors with a dividend increase of more than 50%.
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Why some girls are skirting the HPV vaccine
By WBUR (Boston) | October 16, 2013
Public health officials have been somewhat puzzled by low rates of HPV vaccination: only 54% of adolescent girls receive the first dose of the three-part vaccine series, and only 33% complete it. A new study by doctors and public health researchers at the University of Colorado sheds light on who...
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Meet Obamacare's secret (traffic) weapon
By Washington Post | October 15, 2013
HealthCare.gov has, by all accounts, been an absolute train wreck of a website roll-out. But one thing the site hasn't lacked is traffic: It saw 4.7 million unique visitors in its first 24 hours online. And according to the web analytics firm SimilarWeb, which monitors network traffic, it has a...
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Physician assistants fill in at the fringes of healthcare
By NBC News | October 15, 2013
Physician assistants are helping to fill the many holes in the U.S. healthcare system, providing tests, counseling and other basic care when a doctor is unavailable. They expect to get busier as healthcare reform starts making it easier for people to pay for medical care.
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Medicare had messy rollout, too
By Bloomberg.com | October 15, 2013
There are rumblings that the glitches attending the rollout of the Affordable Care Act—along with the relentless campaign to sabotage or delay it in numerous states—mean the program is dead on arrival. But the history of an equally controversial and vast government effort, Medicare,...
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Sizzling drug sales help J&J beat 3Q forecasts
By Reuters | October 15, 2013
Johnson & Johnson reported better-than-expected third-quarter results, as strong growth for prescription drugs overshadowed weaker contributions from its medical device and consumer products businesses.
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Improving patient engagement equal parts technology, empathy
By CIO | October 15, 2013
Improving efficiency and cutting costs in healthcare means better collaborating with patients. Web portals and mobile applications can help, but only if they connect with the myriad systems that doctors actually use. Organizations can't forget that a little empathy goes a long way, too.
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