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By: Billie Papasifakis
On the heels of Congress' foray into the healthcare reform debate, there is one overlooked sector of the medical profession that merits increased attention for its ability to actually reduce the overall costs of care: home health.
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By: Daniel Nutkis
On Oct. 16, states will submit their health information exchange, or HIE, grant applications in order to receive their incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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By: Jonathan Simons
In healthcare reform, policymakers need to appreciate that true-cost savings can be best achieved through accelerated research that ultimately allows us to cure more and treat less. To this end, we should carefully examine the institutions and the processes that allocate resources for medical research, with the aim of giving greater emphasis, and more funding, to research that can deliver better patient outcomes.
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By: Alan Miller
As the national discussion over healthcare picks up momentum, most of the debate is focused on who will provide medical insurance and how it will be paid. While medical insurance is an important issue, we should all hope that the government works to lower the cost of healthcare. One important step would be tort reform of medical malpractice lawsuits.
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By: Bruce McPherson
If federal healthcare reform legislation is enacted soon that achieves universal access to coverage, racial and ethnic health disparities and many other difficult health-status problems will remain that are not resolvable by coverage alone. Those problems will of course be compounded by healthcare access problems should current legislative efforts fail completely or fill only some of the coverage gaps.
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