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Medicaid cuts in Oregon were followed by increases in both hospital emergency department (ED) use and hospitalization of the uninsured. A study published online April 17, 2008, in the Annals of Emergency Medicine says federal legislation facilitating similar Medicaid changes in other states may lead to higher ED use and hospitalizations elsewhere.
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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.
