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15 hours ago ago from Second Amendment Freedom- Firearms Rights

Visit our other blog at armedselfdefense.blogspot.com The Brady group believes that Senators bent over backwards for the “Gun Owners Of America” (GOA) in the soon to be passed extremist liberal health care reform. They claim that Senator Grassley got a provision into Harry Reid’s “ Manager’s Amendment” that says, “ A wellness and health promotion activity under the bill may not require the disclosure or collection of any ...

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7 hours ago ago from Covering Health

New America Media 's Paul Kleyman explores the effects of hospitals cutting corners when it comes to patient transitions from hospital to home, a problem his sources call one of the biggest gaps in the health care system. Citing a widely reported 2009 New England Journal of Medicine article on preventable rehospitalizations , Kleyman explains why the current transition system is both expensive and broken , then chronicles the efforts of ...

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6 hours ago ago from Queens Campaigner

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11 hours ago ago from Rife experts

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23 hours ago ago from Health Business Blog

It's interesting to be in late 2009 and see e-visits described as a disruptive innovation that the medical establishment is fighting. I first started working on e-visits almost 10 years ago, consulting to RelayHealth (then Healinx). It's a sensible concept, fairly straightforward to implement, efficient, and effective for certain situations. Yet growth has been slow. Part of the issue is that it's health care we're talking about, where ...

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19 hours ago ago from The New York Times

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