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Why Health IT? Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...
Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in...
Healthcare (health-care) is broadly defined as any care, service, or supply related to the physical or mental health and well-being of an individual through the services offered by the medical and a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of sexual health; "the state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, d...
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Report: U.S. Could Save $2T Over A Decade By Encouraging Cost-Effective Care
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund says the federal government could save $2 trillion on health care costs over a decade it if accelerates provider adoption of more-effective care. Reuters: U.S....
International survey: 69 percent of US primary care doctors now have electronic medical records
(Commonwealth Fund) Two-thirds of US primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records in 2012, up from less than half in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund In...
Study: Almost Half Of Working-Age Adults Have Inadequate Health Coverage
The Commonwealth Fund concluded that, while the number of uninsured adults dropped during the past two years, a large number of working-age adults had little or no coverage. Kaiser Health News: Capsul...
Consumers benefitted nearly $1.5 billion from the ACA's medical loss ratio rule in 2011
(Commonwealth Fund) Consumers saw nearly $1.5 billion in insurer rebates and overhead cost savings in 2011, due to the Affordable Care Act's medical loss ratio provision requiring health insurers to s...
Report Suggests How to Improve Health Care and Save Money
After learning just yesterday about the poor health of Americans relative to other democratic wealthy nations around the world, it is heartening to learn that today the Commonwealth Fund Commission ha...
13.7 million young adults stayed on or joined their parents' health plans in 2011
(Commonwealth Fund) In 2011, 13.7 million young adults ages 19 to 25 stayed on or joined their parents' health plans, including 6.6 million who would likely not have been able to do so before passage...
Last week, I wrote about a Families USA report that invented a version of Mitt Romney’s health-reform plan, and then attacked that invented version with a flawed and partisan analysis originating fr...
Twenty percent of US women were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent in 2000
(Commonwealth Fund) Twenty percent of US women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report on women's healt...
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Road map to better care. U.S. at bottom of Commonwealth Fund's ranking of seven health systems.
The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Long-Term Care Specialists.
The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Long-Term Care of Specialists was administered via the World Wide Web from September 2007 through March 2008. The primary purpose was to characterize the views of those...
Realizing health reform's potential: small businesses and the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes several short- and long-term provisions designed to help small businesses pay for and maintain health insurance for their workers, and to...
Improving quality in long-term care.
How CER Could Pay for Itself - Insights from Vertebral Fracture Treatments.
Two procedures for treating osteoporotic vertebral fracture have been widely adopted, but their efficacy is now in doubt. Their story suggests ways in which comparative-effectiveness research (CER) ma...
