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<description><![CDATA[Everyone in our industry &#8212; policymakers, clinicians, healthcare facility administrators, public and private payers, technicians, pharmacists &#8212; shares concerns about the state of healthcare in the U.S., each of us from a slightly different viewpoint. The thread that joins us all is that one day each of us will be a patient. As its title [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I had performed this procedure dozens of times before. It was routine. I stand under the bright lights, I take a deep breath, I wait for my hands to stop shaking, and then, I begin. This time was different, though. The lights were blinding, there were lots of people watching, and there were TV cameras. [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I found a recent Associated Press article on an aspect of the new health care law that many of us may have overlooked. It requires consumer-friendly summaries of what insurance plans cover, a provision that now seems to be at risk. The insurance industry is up in arms about implementation costs and added regulatory burdens. [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Jack and John are identical twins, but have varying interests in life. One day Jack, 43-years old, decides he has had enough of these headaches and calls his family doctor and asks what he should do. He is told that his doctor can see him in 4 days and to take some over the counter [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been five years since she was told she was cancer free. Today she was told it was back, and the future was quite grim. My job was to make sure she understood how to properly take the medication that would reduce the swelling around the tumor so radiation could start as soon as possible. That was [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[What could be so simple as a blood test? A quick prick with a needle, a wait of a day or two for results and a discussion with the doctor about those results. In the words of our vaunted politicians, it would be an “up or down vote” on whether there was anything to deal [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Don’t get me wrong, EMRs (electronic medical records) are inevitable. Over the long-run they are almost certainly good for physicians, patients and the healthcare industry. However, their origin and the ulterior motives currently driving their adoption is sowing the seeds of their failure.  First, what is actually happening out there?  The most recent CDC data [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009. The objective of Measure 12/15 of Meaningful Use regulations of the HITECH act which refer to electronic health records, states that eligible professionals “provide [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Many healthcare professionals find fibromyalgia difficult to believe as “a real disease” and most of all difficult to handle, and to be honest it is not so difficult to see why. Doctors and other healthcare professionals have learned how to search for diseases based on the specific symptoms the patients present, but fibromyalgia – and [...]]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When I relocated my radiation oncology practice from Jacksonville to Tampa, Florida, I had to figure out how to compete against urologists in a market that was radically different from the one I had left. Unlike their peers in Jacksonville, Tampa urologists owned their own radiation centers, guaranteeing I wouldn’t receive referrals from them. R
