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"As the federal government prepares to spend up to $27 billion in stimulus funds to promote electronic medical records," a health and insurance providers "are violating federal security rules on patient data," The Center for Public Integrity reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how lawmakers are scrambling to grasp health reform's new political landscape.
Using reconciliation to advance health reform appears to be picking up support among congressional Democrats, but time will tell -- as leaders say they will wait for Senator-elect Scott Brown to be seated before action is taken.
The New York Times explores efforts across the U.S. to craft and implement affordable solutions to infrastructure problems around the world, and programs geared toward supporting the work of local entrepreneurs to build solutions to the problems on the ground.
"A strong earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a previous quake," the Canadian Press reports. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 6.1 magnitude quake was approximately 35 miles northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince. "It was not immediately possible to ascertain what additional damage the new quake may have caused," the news service writes (Faul, 1/20).
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s chief executive officer Andrew Witty on Tuesday unveiled the company's plans to allow "free access to its library of 13,500 potential malaria treatments and devote the profits from its experimental [RTS,S] vaccine to battling tropical illnesses that beset poor countries," Bloomberg reports (Randall, 1/20).
Performing circumcisions on newborn boys to lower their risk for HIV infection later in life is more cost-effective than adolescent or adult circumcision, according to researchers at Rwanda's health ministry, Reuters reports. The findings, published in the journal PLoS Medicine, suggest that "the operation, which has been shown to cut dramatically the virus' transmission from women to men, is quicker, simpler and more cost-effective in newborns," the news service writes.
News reports ruminated Wednesday on a key question: How did the Massachusetts Senate seat left behind by Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy fall into Republican hands?
Democrats are weighing options for passing health care reform after their loss of a Senate seat took away their filibuster-proof majority.
A sampling of opinions and editorials from around the country.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of coverage of state budget issues.
The American Society of News Editors on Tuesday joined C-SPAN in calling for "more openness and transparency" on health care reform, The Washington Times reports.
Nearly half of Americans consider the current health reform legislation a step backward while 38 percent approve of the way President Barack Obama has handled the issue, a newly released NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds.
Health shares rise as traders bet that Republican's election could put health care overhaul in jeopardy.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of state and local stories from around the country.
RadioIowa reports that Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says hospital officials around the country are seeing bugs in new health information technology software that are putting patients at risk.
Leading GOP lawmakers took Republican Scott Brown's victory in Tuesday's special election for a long-blue Massachusetts Senate seat as a sign that Democrats health reform proposal should be "scrapped."
The administrators for many insurers' prescription drug programs, known as pharmacy benefit management companies, see business expanding with aging population and possibility of health overhaul.
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