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Almost all states are actively engaged in e-health strategies to facilitate use of information technology to make the health care system more efficient and provide greater value and higher quality.
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Pennsylvania has become the first state in the nation to receive the federal government's permission to spend federal Medicaid dollars on services that enable autistic adults to live more independently.
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For the first time, newly proposed guidance puts a number and a cost to the respirators needed to protect health care workers during an influenza pandemic: 480 respirators at a cost of about $240 to protect a single employee, or a single reusable elastomeric respirator with three filters at a cost of $40 per employee.
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If you could give health care workers the ideal respirator, what would it look like? For the first time, an interagency task force is considering that question in a project they hope will result in a more effective, less cumbersome respirator perhaps one that doesn't require fit-testing.
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It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees.
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Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment?
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting comments on its proposed guidance on antiviral prophylaxis during an influenza pandemic.
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"At what price is cure a goal? And what price does hope carry?" Lindsay E. Rockwell, MD, a Northampton, MA oncologist, wrote in a 2007 JAMA article.
