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Hospital marketing can be an effective way to attract doctors and new patients, but some critics say hospitals should spend the money on health care instead.
The federal government is investing tens of billions of dollars in health information technology, but the medical groups that stand to benefit from the money are less enthusiastic than their government benefactors, arguing that the push is too aggressive.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a range of health policy developments -- from health reform implementation to the marketplace and the political arena.
Three of the large carriers blame the bulk of their deficit on the governor's decision to cap rate increases for individuals and small businesses, The Boston Globe reports.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Monday's opinions and editorials from around the nation.
SciDev.Net reports on two recent studies published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal which look at how frequently health care providers and researchers in developing countries access research-based evidence. The studies "[t]he researchers, who examined research and practice in four areas at the heart of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], surveyed 1,500 healthcare providers and just over 300 researchers in 10 [low- and middle-income countries]
Democrats are trying a reliable strategy, Politico reports: "front-loading their legislation with consumer-friendly, insurance industry reforms and other fixes they hope will generate support for the new law in the run-up to the pivotal midterm elections."
A 21 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements that has loomed over physicians all year will go into effect on June 1, unless Congress acts to further delay the cuts.
As "HIV prevalence among gay and bisexual men has hit alarming levels in Asia," an estimated 90 percent of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Asia Pacific region lack access to HIV prevention and care, according to a report released Monday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCPM) and the University of Hong Kong's Center for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL), Reuters reports.
Officials and stakeholders are examining the new health reform law for changes that the reform will mean for their organizations and industries.
Insurance groups are wrangling with regulators on defining a few key terms that will significantly alter how they do business under the new health reform law.
The annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA) convened on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/Monsters and Critics.com reports. According to the news service, influenza vaccines, the fight against tuberculosis, intellectual property and reducing counterfeit drugs will be discussed (4/17).
Economic policies that help the poor will bring the world closer to meeting the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs]
"[O]n his first visit to Africa since taking charge as the administrator of USAID in January," Rajiv Shah said in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday that the agency "is working to make Africa a bigger priority within the organization," the Associated Press writes. USAID, which "funds and runs programs to improve health, food security, democracy and entrepreneurship in Africa," has offices in 23 countries on the continent, according to the AP (5/15).
Medicaid rolls continued to swell in Utah, but growth was slower than in recent months. Arizona's children's health insurance program, meanwhile, blocked new enrollments in January and has seen its numbers shrink by 26 percent.
The National Federation of Independent Business joined a lawsuit filed by mostly Republican attorneys generals challenging the new federal health reform law.
"Dartmouth College is getting $35 million to open a center it hopes will help the nation take the next big steps in health care reform: improving quality while lowering costs," The Associated Press reports.
A New York hospital system has become entwined in a corruption scandal that sent a state lawmaker to prison for six years.
News outlets report on employer-provided health insurance and suggest that the overall number of Americans who are insured through their workplace is unlikely to change substantially under the health law.
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