CMA Press Clips
Daily reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.
U.S. Eases Funds to Adopt Electronic Medical Records
Wall Street Journal – 7/14/10 – WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Tuesday loosened the rules for hospitals and doctors to qualify for federal funding to replace paper medical records with electronic files for patients.
Standards Issued for Electronic Health Records
New York Times – 7/14/10 – WASHINGTON — The federal government issued new rules Tuesday that will reward doctors and hospitals for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records, a top goal of President Obama. The rules significantly scale back proposed requirements that the health care industry had denounced as unrealistic.
Los Robles Hospital expansion approved
Ventura County Star – 7/14/10 – The Thousand Oaks City Council approved a controversial expansion plan for Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center early this morning following a marathon five-hour hearing.
California cracks down on Medicare fraud targeting seniors
Sacramento Bee - 7/14/10 - State health insurance regulators are cracking down on insurance brokers who prey on elderly consumers confused by new federal health insurance rules.
Opinion: Health care reform and Medicare: Knowledge is power
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin – 7/14/10 – As health care reform begins to take shape, the old adage "knowledge is power" has never been more poignant, particularly for seniors. It is estimated that California's senior population is expected to double from 3.3 million in 1993 to more than 6.6 million in 2020 - the demand on our health care system will be great.
Study: Many docs don't blow whistle on colleagues
Associated Press – 7/13/10 – CHICAGO — Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle.
White House to Unveil List of Free Preventative Services
Wall Street Journal – 7/14/10 – WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Wednesday will unveil new rules specifying which preventive health services will be free to consumers under the new health law.
Obama's AIDS strategy a test of will
San Francisco Chronicle - 7/14/10 - This country has a better record on fighting AIDS overseas than it does at home. In 2003, Washington launched a $15 billion overseas effort to stem the outbreak in 15 hard-hit countries, but it neglected to focus on the plague here.
White House unveils national HIV/AIDS strategy
Washington Post - 7/14/10 - The White House on Tuesday unveiled the first formal national HIV/AIDS strategy, a plan that aims to reduce the number of new cases by 25 percent in the next five years, officials said.
