Community Health Digest

12/17/09 President Announces Funds for Community Health Centers, PCMH Pilot Project

12/17/09 President Announces Funds for Community Health Centers, PCMH Pilot Project

AAFP News Now - James Arvantes

"The fact that medical homes are going to occur and the pilots are going to be expanded is essentially evidence that we are getting much more traction in ...

12/2/09 - Loss of COBRA aid puts people in health care bind

12/2/09 - Loss of COBRA aid puts people in health care bind

Detroit Free Press, freep.com, Detroit, Michigan

Alida Holmes is frightened to be without health insurance for the first time as an adult.

Holmes hasn't been uninsured "since I was 16," she said. "It's very worrisome for me, but there's nothing I can do about it."

On Tuesday, Holmes and several million Americans lost a federal subsidy that helped them buy COBRA insurance ...

11/17/09 - You have health insurance options when COBRA runs out

11/17/09 You have health insurance options when COBRA runs out

USA Today - Sandra Block 

CHIP is particularly valuable if any of your children has a chronic medical condition, such as asthma. Most private insurers charge much higher premiums for ...

10/5/09 - Insuring the Near-Elderly: How Much Would Medicare Save?

10/5/09 Insuring the Near-Elderly: How Much Would Medicare Save?

Annals of Internal Medicine

These differences in medical expenditures between uninsured and insured adults are larger for people with diabetes, heart disease, or arthritis diagnosed by ...

9/30/09 $120 Million for States Made Available as Part of Recovery Act...

9/30/09 $120 Million for States Made Available as Part of Recovery Act ...

Business Wire (press release)

“State health departments are the backbone of the public health system and are uniquely positioned to support and leverage local efforts for chronic disease ...

9/18/09 New Stimulus Funds Will Make Black & Latino Communities Healthier

9/18/09 New Stimulus Funds will make Black & Latino Communities Healthier

PR Newswire (press release)

(RWJF Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity) Nearly 37 percent of African-American children and 43 percent of Mexican-American children are obese or ...

9/11/09 - Young adults a key to health care reform

9/11/09 Young adults a key to health care reform

Baltimore Sun

Scott suffers from asthma and eczema and said that while uninsured, she had to go to the emergency room four or five times a year for treatment. ...

9/11/09 - Curbing Obesity Epidemic Key to Health Care Reform: Experts

9/11/09 Curbing Obesity Epidemic Key to Health Care Reform: Experts

U.S. News & World Report - Karen Pallarito 

Carmona serves as the health and wellness chairperson of the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, whose steering committee includes ...

8/25/09 NHLBI Awards Recovery Act Funds to Support Study of Parents' Role...

8/25/09 NHLBI Awards Recovery Act Funds to Support Study of Parents' Role ...

Media Newswire (press release) (press release) - ‎16 hours ago‎

Funding of Project F-EAT will build upon the NHLBI's commitment to help prevent childhood obesity. As part of this commitment, the NHLBI, the National ...

8/20/09 - CDC launches Web site to help employers combat obesity, reduce costs

8/20/09 CDC launches Web site to help employers combat obesity, reduce costs

Workers Comp Forum

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled a Web site to help employers address the growing obesity problem. Officials said the goal of ...

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8/18/09 Ulitmus Releases Health IT Best Practices for Improving and...

8/18/09  Ultimus Releases Health IT Best Practices for Improving and ...

SYS-CON Media - ‎13 minutes ago‎

... this whitepaper serves to inform healthcare organizations on how they can take advantage of stimulus funding to meet new efficiency standards. ...

8/13/09 - Healthier lifestyles best way to lower medical bills

8/13/09 Healthier lifestyles best way to lower medical bills
Zanesville Times Recorder
The extra weight Americans are packing leads to numerous and often avoidable health problems: heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, ...

8/13/09 - Will Health Reform Include Dental Insurance Coverage?

8/13/09 Will Health Reform Include Dental Insurance Coverage?
eMaxHealth - Deborah Mitchell
... than cervical cancer, and there is evidence that oral infections have an impact on pregnancy outcomes and complicate chronic diseases such as diabetes. ...

8/12/09 - Female food-stamp recipients weigh more

8/12/09 Female food-stamp recipients weigh more
Columbus Dispatch - Steve Bushong
Since 1980, obesity in the United States has more than doubled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Obesity is an important ...

8/11/09 - What Will Health Care Reform Cost You?

8/11/09 What Will Health Care Reform Cost You?
CBS News
Potential cost to you: You'd have to pay taxes on the value of your employee health plan or, more likely, on the amount of its value that exceeds an average ...

8/11/09 Stimulus Funds Help Health Centers

8/11/09 Stimulus Funds Help Health Centers

AAFP News Now - James Arvantes

"Stimulus funding for health centers was the right medicine at the right time," said Amy Simmons, communications director at the NACHC. ...

8/10/09 Five Lessons from Seattle on Adopting Electronic Medical Records

8/10/09 Five Lessons From Seattle On Adopting Electronic Medical Records

Kaiser Health News - Julie Appleby

Under the federal-stimulus legislation, the government plans to spend $32 billion on health-information technology over the next 10 years, and projects $13 ...

8/10/09 States Making Deep Cuts to Health Care, Study Says

8/10/09 States making deep cuts to health care, study says

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Pauline Vu

Before Congress passed the stimulus package in February, states' Medicaid programs were in danger of huge cuts, including removing thousands of people from ...

8/7/09 Health IT: A Shot in the Arm

8/7/09 Health IT: A shot in the arm

Triad Business Journal

With more than $19 billion in stimulus funds pegged to health information technology set to start flowing in about 17 months, IT and health technology ...

8/7/09 Assessing Home Health Wireless Growth

8/7/09 Assessing Home Health Wireless Growth

Health Data Management

One factor fueling the increases is the economic stimulus law's health information technology provisions, which will open new opportunities for wireless ...