Big Data: What It Means To You with Lucila Ohno-Machado MD
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado of UC San Diego shows how electronic health records from billions of doctor #39;s visits could help scientists learn what therapies work best...
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Dr. Ali of AlignLife Dundee talks about Spinal Decay
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Stephanie Harman, MD, on How Palliative Care at Stanford is Unique
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Ibn Sina Foundation North Shepherd on Univision 45
Coverage of the opening of Ibn Sina Foundation #39;s sixth Community Clinic. This one is located in Houston on North Shepherd. The Ibn Sina Foundation was established in 2001 by a group of local...
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Health care costs and quality, pharmaceutical effectiveness, and a new health strategy.
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Austin TX Chiropractic Health Care - Austin Preferred
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All About That PACE, featuring OKC #39;s Lucky
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Ukraine: Donetsk health care system collapsing, WHO says
The World Health Organization reports that the health system in the conflict-ridden eastern Ukrainian region around Donetsk is collapsing. The WHO says five million people living in the pro-Russian...
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January 2015 Commission Meeting of the Maryland Health Care Commission.
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By Karen Pallarito HealthDay Reporter Latest Prevention & Wellness News
THURSDAY, Jan. 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Although problems persist, more Americans had significantly less trouble getting and paying for needed medical care in 2014, as the health insurance expansions of the Affordable Care Act kicked in, a new survey suggests.
The number of working-age adults who said they didn't get the care they needed because of the cost dropped to 66 million in 2014 from 80 million in 2012 -- the first decline since 2003, according to The Commonwealth Fund's latest Biennial Health Insurance Survey.
At the same time, fewer adults -- 64 million in 2014 versus 75 million in 2012 -- reported medical bill problems, and that's the first decrease since 2005.
"This new report provides evidence that the Affordable Care Act's new subsidized options for people who lack insurance from employers are helping to reverse national trends in health care coverage and affordability," Commonwealth Fund President Dr. David Blumenthal said in a news conference with reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Uninsured rates tumbled to their lowest levels in more than a decade, the survey found. A total of 29 million working-age adults (16 percent of the population) were uninsured in 2014, down from 37 million (20 percent of the population) in 2010.
It is "the first statistically significant decline measured by the survey since it began in 2001," noted Sara Collins, vice president for health care coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, which publishes the nation's longest-running nonfederal survey of health insurance coverage.
The Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," broadened access to health coverage through Medicaid and private health insurance subsidies. Just 26 states and the District of Columbia expanded Medicaid in 2014, after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of that requirement.
Beginning in September 2010, the health reform law made it possible for young adults under the age of 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance plans.
The survey shows young adults realized the greatest gains in coverage of any age group. Among 19- to 34-year-olds, 19 percent were uninsured in 2014, down from 27 percent in 2010.
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Dr. Peter Beilenson thought fighting the intractable rates of drug use and sexually transmitted diseases in Baltimore was tough. Then the former city health commissioner took on health insurance.
"It's the hardest job I've had," said Beilenson, founder and CEO of Evergreen Health Cooperative, a nonprofit insurer created under the federal Affordable Care Act to offer "patient-centered" care and bring cost-curbing competition to the market.
"We're first new commercial insurer in 20 years in Maryland as far as we know," he said. "It's not easy to have a successful startup in a state that basically has a monopoly."
Beilenson is referring to CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the state's dominant insurer. Evergreen is one of 24 such co-ops, officially called Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, established nationwide, and many of them face similar behemoths.
That fierce competition is the biggest hurdle to the co-ops' success, executives and observers say, as the nascent operations enter their second year of business. But there are a host of other potential stumbling blocks, including name recognition and funding, and the co-ops are responding by boosting their industry knowledge, aggressively marketing their services and cutting premium prices to lure customers.
"They're coming on as strong as they can," said Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "No startup organization can be expected to grow more rapidly than they are. But I think it would be tough to judge any organization before three to five years."
Weiner said federal officials gave the co-ops a leg up with billions in federal loans and grants, which competing insurers derided as unfair. But the co-ops only enrolled about 450,000 in the inaugural year, missing government projections by 125,000, largely because of dysfunction on many new health exchange websites such as Maryland's, where the co-ops expected to get their customers.
Evergreen set up a traditional network of doctors in preparation for the business but also opened its own health centers to directly employ health care providers. But it struggled, only getting about 400 customers last year from the troubled exchange.
That near-death experience pushed Evergreen to look to small businesses that it could attract on its own and enroll in groups. So far, about 1,000 small businesses employing about 12,000 people have switched to the co-op.
Studies suggest these customers pose less risk because they previously had health care unlike most of those from the exchanges. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that about 60 percent of individuals buying policies on exchanges were previously uninsured for two years or more and in worse health than those who already had insurance.
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Answers to the tough questions of how oil and gas drilling is affecting Coloradans health havent come easy in recent years, and there wasnt much more clarity offered for members of the Colorado Oil and Gas task force on Thursday.
It was as simple as the goods on the table that sat before the 21-member task force assembled at the 4H Building at Island Grove Regional Park.
Members giggled a little as Dr. Larry Wolk, director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, presented them with products hed picked up at local stores: a bottle of Coke, a bottle of beer, a pack of cigarettes, a bag of Skittles, a quart of motor oil, some marijuana and a cup of caffeinated coffee.
Which is really the worst for your health? he asked. Which would be worse if you ate it? Or would it be worse if we aerosoled it and breathed it? Which would be worse if you were pregnant, a child, or elderly, or just had one Skittle versus 12 (bottles of Coke)? Is it better to smoke the marijuana or eat it?
Its about exposure we want it to be simple, and we want a simple answer to the question. This is a complicated question.
Wolk was one of four health care experts presenting before the task force in the groups fifth meeting to determine recommendations to solve resident concerns of increased urban drilling. About 200 people attended Thursdays meetings in Greeley.
Residents have fears that close proximity to oil and gas drilling and storage is dangerous to their health. Studies in recent years suggest increased risk in closer proximity to facilities, but nothing definitive. Its dependent on topography, temperature, wind direction, genetics, and length of exposure, among others.
While the four collectively seemed to agree that more study is needed to discover solid health effects, none said they had enough information to recommend to the task force a setback, or a minimum distance drilling should be from residential structures or schools.
I dont think we know quite enough for me to recommend a number, said Gabrielle Petron, a researcher at the University of Colorado, and a contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who has been part of team conducting air studies along the Front Range for about seven years.
Oil and gas opponents throughout the state last year sought to increase the distance from oil and gas operations and residential structures to 2,000 feet up from the current 500 feet in law today. The task force was formed as a compromise by Gov. John Hickenlooper to avoid a public vote on the matter. The task force will take up that discussion in more detail today.
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Health care stocks were pushing to their best levels of the session with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index ahead by 1.2% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 adding 1.9% as a group.
In company news, PharmAthene ( PIP ) turned lower again this afternoon despite the Delaware Court of Chancery late Thursday adding $81.5 million in interest and other costs to the $113 million previously awarded to the biotech company in its long legal fight with one-time partner SIGA Technologies over its Tecovirimat smallpox antiviral.
PIP sued SIGA over eight years ago, arguing it deserved a share of the potential profits for Tecovirimat after helping fund its development. The Delaware court earlier this month agreed with those claims, awarding PIP $113 million for lost profits, with yesterday's decision lifting the amount now owed above $194 million.
The meter also is continuing to run for SIGA, with the court yesterday ordering it to pay $30,663.89 per day in interest while the company appeals the decision to the Delaware Supreme Court.
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British People #39;Appalled #39; By U.S. Health Care
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Paul Pepper: MU Health Care, "Asthma" Chris Fitzgerald, Clean Sweep Columbia
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Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center staff and supporters share their mental health self-care tips for feeling more peaceful, or changing perspective on a difficult situation.
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Are Transsexuals Safe At the Doctor Office?
This video in which I share a personal blog about horrible experience at places where I receive my health care.
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