Doctors: No Painkillers Until You Sign Our Pain Contract
April 05, 2011
Pain Meds:
Health Reform: Hoping to influence the health reform debate and get its message of coordinated care closer to national lawmakers, California-based Kaiser Permanente opened a Washington, D.C. demonstration clinic near the Capitol Building, Gardiner Harris reports for the New York Times.
Health IT Prize: The CEO of the Heritage Provider Network in California is offering a $3 million, X prize-style award to anyone who create a set of equations that can best predicts which patients will be hospitalized and for how many days within one year, based on a given data set. But could the contest really help make health care more efficient? Annie Lowrey investigates for Slate.
Immigrant Health: Mexican migrants are more prone to mental health disorders compared to Mexicans who were born in the United States, according to a new study examined by Shari Roan for the Los Angeles Times.
Blood Test, Remade: Wired magazine's effort to explain and retool the traditional blood test is fascinating – and just won a National Magazine award.
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