This guest post was written by Kenneth C. Frazier, the chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., one of the world's largest drug companies. He was among the top business leaders who met with Barack Obama in November to discuss the United States' fiscal problems.
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Outstanding Volunteers 2012: Tony Arrell
Chairman of Burgundy Asset Management, Tony Arrell believes in investing in value-value in business assets and the community. For more than 20 years, Tony has been an ardent champion of education, health care and the arts demonstrated by his philanthropic leadership of St. Michael #39;s Hospital, the Canadian Opera Company (Incoming President), the University of Guelph, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, the Schulich School of Business, the Bishop Strachan School (Chair 1997-2001), the Gardiner Museum and others. Overseeing the $140 million campaign that created the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael #39;s Hospital, Tony #39;s remarkable influence and fundraising acumen have resulted in raising $170 million to build the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, $6 million for the Cystic Fibrosis Breathe Campaign (2006-2009) and $73 million for the University of Guelph (2003). Together with his wife, Anne, Tony #39;s invigorating commitment and unbending generosity have set him apart as an outstanding visionary and a volunteer committed to giving, and motivating others to give.From:AFPTorontoViews:2 0ratingsTime:03:11More inNonprofits Activism
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H1N1 Infection -- Part 2
In Part 2 of his interview with Mayo Clinic Proceedings regarding his review article on H1N1 to be published ahead of print in early December 2009 Available at: tinyurl.com Dr. Greg Poland, Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Mayo Clinic and Director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group, addresses primarily a health care professional audience and discusses the likelihood that the H1N1 will become part of the seasonal vaccine next year, when to provide/seek treatment with antiviral agents, the usefulness of antiviral treatment even after the ideal 48-hour window has passed, the speed of progression of the disease, and the importance for health care workers to be vaccinated.From:Mayo ProceedingsViews:0 0ratingsTime:05:55More inScience Technology
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Nurses Give Back
Nurses and CNAs with Salem Health are committed to helping the community year round through an outreach program they created called, "Nurses Give Back." This video highlights the ongoing effort, including volunteering at a dental clinic for people with little or no income. More than 40 nurses volunteered to help staff the event and offer information about local assistance programs. The non-profit group "Without Strings" organized the clinic, which continually provides preventative health care education and services to Salem #39;s underserved citizens. Salem Health is comprised of Salem Hospital, West Valley Hospital, Willamette Health Partners and other affiliated health care organizations offering exceptional care to people in and around Oregon #39;s mid-Willamette Valley. Visit us at salemhealth.org and facebook.com/salemhealth; follow us on Twitter: @salemhealth; and view us at youtube.com/salemhealth.From:salemhealthViews:4 0ratingsTime:02:11More inNonprofits Activism
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Rogers asks questions about Home Care
To read the full exchange from question period, please visit our web site: nlndpcaucus.ca MR. SPEAKER: The hon. the Member for St. John #39;s Centre. MS ROGERS: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, families are under extreme financial and emotional stress trying to find reliable home care or respite care for their disabled children. Under the current system families can pay $2000 to $3000, or more a month. SOME HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh! MR. SPEAKER: Order, please! MS ROGERS: Mr. Speaker, the minister has already said government spends $161 million on seniors and people with disabilities, but home care must be an integral part of our public health care system. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister of Health and Community Services: When will this government stop charging families for home care for their disabled children?From:NLNDP CaucusViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:13More inNews Politics
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Kevin Lembo - Connecticut State Comptroller
Connecticut State Comptroller, Kevin Lembo joins Comcast Newsmakers host Nathan O #39;Leary to discuss his top priorities. Among the topics are the Connecticut state budget, the economy, health care, the Health Enhancement Program the Man-Up Program.From:Comcast Newsmakers NEViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:31More inNews Politics
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Putting Patients First: Transforming Health Care in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is the first province in Canada to attempt large-scale improvements in patient-centred care using Lean; the video gives an overview of what our health system hopes to achieve with this approach. It features clips of Drs. Shaw, Kopriva, Groot, and Fourie, Dan Florizone, Heather Thiessen, Rosalee Longmoore, and Bonnie Brossart.From:SaskHQCViews:0 0ratingsTime:06:44More inEducation
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DENVER—A major deadline looms Friday for states to comply with the new health care law.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Tiger Institute and the University of Missouri Health Care achieved another milestone in electronic medical record adoption with the HIMSS Stage 7 award. This puts MU Health Care in the top 1.8% of hospitals in the nation in the use of technology to deliver safe, quality patient care. In 2009, the University of Missouri and Cerner (CERN) created the Tiger Institute for Health Innovation as a unique, groundbreaking partnership designed to transform the health and care of Missourians. Since its founding three years ago, the Tiger Institute has led MUHC from HIMSS EMRAM Stage 3 to Stage 7 across five facilities.
"Achieving the highest level of electronic medical record adoption is not only an honor, but a reflection of the hard work and dedication of our clinicians and information technology staff," said Joanne Burns, chief information officer at MU Health Care. "The Tiger Institute's ultimate goal has always been to use health information technology to enhance the quality and safety of the care we provide. MU Health Care shares Cerner's belief that a solid technology infrastructure is the foundation for improving the health and care of patients and the community."
Working side-by-side, MU Health Care and the Tiger Institute are implementing solutions at an unprecedented rate, exceeding clinical and operational expectations and fostering clinical innovation. Since the founding of the partnership, MU Health Care has earned the following awards:
"The Tiger Institute is one of Cerner's core strategies that supports our belief that health care is too important to stay the same. It is a partnership between two Missouri organizations who are committed to seeing the latest technological innovations put into practice for the betterment of the health of our communities," said Jeff Townsend, Cerner executive vice president and chief of staff. "Our impatience for change and passion to make a difference make this a personal mission for our associates."
With nearly three years of collaboration, the Tiger Institute is creating innovative health care delivery systems, connecting care providers throughout Missouri and engaging individuals in personal wellness. While the HIMSS Stage 7 award is a significant achievement, it's really just the starting point of the journey. Having reached the highest level of electronic medical record adoption, MU Health Care and Tiger Institute have laid the foundation for further innovation.
Through the unique partnership of the Tiger Institute, Cerner and MU Health Care look forward to the trial and testing of new innovations, reaching a greater level of patient care coordination and speeding the innovation and adoption processes. On the horizon in 2013, Tiger Institute will use a $13.3 million grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement a project called "Leveraging Information Technology to Guide High Tech, High Touch Care" or LIGHT2. During its 3-year execution, LIGHT2 is expected to enable disruptive innovation required to create a new primary care patient engagement model while lowering the cost of care.
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Yahiden Lopez takes medication from his mother at their home, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012, in Alamo, Texas. Lopez was born in the United States, but his mother is an illegal immigrant.
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Several hospitals in the state have laid off staff recently, and some officials said new health care regulations and requirements played a role in their decision.
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Commissioner Cavoukian urges the health care professionals to secure all portable storage devices - encrypt by default and avoid the harm
TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2012 /CNW/ - As portable storage devices become increasingly prevalent in the health care sector, concerns also arise regarding the privacy and security of personal health information (PHI). Medical professionals in high-availability data environments, from family doctors to large hospitals, need to ensure data security and protect information through encryption as the default, as the potential for privacy breaches that can be costly and cause lasting damage to their reputation. Taking these steps provides a positive-sum, Privacy by Design approach which benefits both patients and caregivers.
That is why Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is taking a proactive approach and launching a new joint paper on December 14, 2012 at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre co-authored with Sam Marafioti, V.P. and CIO, and Jeff Curtis, CPO, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Nandini Jolly, President and CEO of CryptoMill Technologies Ltd. The paper introduces the "Circle of Trust" concept, modeled by CryptoMill Technologies after PHIPA's "Circle of Care," which refers to the mobile encryption deployment scenarios and role-based access that enables the free flow of PHI among authorized health-care providers as needed, while at the same time, ensuring PHI remains encrypted and inaccessible to everyone else.
The paper entitled, Encryption by Default and Circles of Trust: Strategies to Secure Personal Information in High-Availability Environments, seeks to stimulate discussion of the challenges and opportunities for assuring PHI security beyond the current state of adoption within health care. In the past, doctors, hospitals and other medical professionals had to deal with stacks of paper-based medical records which are now increasingly moving onto portable storage devices. Commissioner Cavoukian emphasizes the message that, "now is the time to address potential security breaches and additional concerns about privacy. Whether you are a large hospital, a small clinic, a research facility, public service institution, or a private-sector contractor, the message remains the same - encrypt by default and avoid the harm of a privacy breach."
The paper also examines the challenges of encrypting numerous portable devices in a large and complex health care institution such as Sunnybrook - one of Canada's largest hospitals, with a world-class reputation for research, innovation and patient care. While Sunnybrook's current policy is to "encrypt by default," it is not always easy to ensure in such a large and dynamic operating environment. However, Sunnybrook has shown its leadership in privacy and security practices by understanding the message that health care can benefit from improvements in security technologies and access to information without significant user or institutional burden.
"Electronic health information improves the quality of health care by enablinginformed decision-making wherever the information is needed, but mobile devices have to be kept safe," saysSam Marafioti,Vice President Development and Corporate Strategy and Chief Information Officer, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. "At Sunnybrook, encryption technology is mandatoryfor all portable storage devices to ensure that personal health information is kept safe and secure wherever these devices go, allowing our health care teams to do what they do best: care for patients."
Nandini Jolly, President and CEO of CryptoMill Technologies, explains that, "At CryptoMill we take a proactive approach to protecting data and preserving privacy - the very basis of Privacy by Design principles. The necessity to make privacy the default while ensuring a win-win outcome is exactly what we want to achieve by establishing a Trust Boundary solution -- Protect Data, Prevent Accidental breaches and allow for Easy Group Sharing."
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ALAMO, Texas (AP) - For years, Sonia Limas would drag her daughters to the emergency room whenever they fell sick. As an undocumented immigrant, she had no health insurance, and the only place she knew to seek treatment was the hospital - the most expensive setting for those covering the cost.
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Obama health care law may leave fewer options for Texas' undocumented immigrants
Insurers, government squabble over whether a provision of the new health law will hike premiums.
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Medicaid insurer Centene Corp. falls 9% after it says it will miss on its 2012 per-share earnings by as much as 85% due to higher medical costs.
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ALAMO, Texas (AP) -- For years, Sonia Limas would drag her daughters to the emergency room whenever they fell sick. As an illegal immigrant, she had no health insurance, and the only place she knew to seek treatment was the hospital the most expensive setting for those covering the cost.
The family's options improved somewhat a decade ago with the expansion of community health clinics, which offered free or low-cost care with help from the federal government. But President Barack Obama's health care overhaul threatens to roll back some of those services if clinics and hospitals are overwhelmed with newly insured patients and can't afford to care for as many poor families.
To be clear, Obama's law was never intended to help Limas and an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants like her. Instead, it envisions that 32 million uninsured Americans will get access to coverage by 2019. Because that should mean fewer uninsured patients showing up at hospitals, the Obama program slashed the federal reimbursement for uncompensated care.
But in states with large illegal immigrant populations, the math may not work, especially if lawmakers don't expand Medicaid, the joint state-federal health program for the poor and disabled.
When the reform has been fully implemented, illegal immigrants will make up the nation's second-largest population of uninsured, or about 25 percent. The only larger group will be people who qualify for insurance but fail to enroll, according to a 2012 study by the Washington-based Urban Institute.
And since about two-thirds of illegal immigrants live in just eight states, those areas will have a disproportionate share of the uninsured to care for.
In communities "where the number of undocumented immigrants is greatest, the strain has reached the breaking point," Rich Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association, wrote last year in a letter to Obama, asking him to keep in mind the uncompensated care hospitals gave to that group. "In response, many hospitals have had to curtail services, delay implementing services, or close beds."
The federal government has offered to expand Medicaid, but states must decide whether to take the deal. And in some of those eight states including Texas, Florida and New Jersey hospitals are scrambling to determine whether they will still have enough money to treat the remaining uninsured.
Without a Medicaid expansion, the influx of new patients and the looming cuts in federal funding could inflict "a double whammy" in Texas, said David Lopez, CEO of the Harris Health System in Houston, which spends 10 to 15 percent of its $1.2 billion annual budget to care for illegal immigrants.
Realistically, taxpayers are already paying for some of the treatment provided to illegal immigrants because hospitals are required by law to stabilize and treat any patients that arrive in an emergency room, regardless of their ability to pay. The money to cover the costs typically comes from federal, state and local taxes.
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