CMA Press Clips
Daily reports on health care policy and medicine from newspapers and magazines throughout California and around the nation.
Small businesses wrestling with health care reform
Santa Cruz Sentinel - 8/18/10 - Ask Darrell and Karen Darling, who retired and turned over their oceanfront bed-and-breakfast to their daughter, about the impact of federal health care reform on the business. They are covered by Medicare, so the answer is "zip."
Healing Rural Patients With A Dose Of Broadband
NPR - 8/18/10 - Millions of Americans who live in rural areas travel long distances to get health care. Or they may go without it. But high-speed Internet connections now make it possible to bring a doctor's expertise to patients in far-off places, if those places are connected.
L.A. County supervisors call for increased patient safety measures
Los Angeles Times - 8/18/10 - Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday ordered improvements intended to shore up patient safety at the county's hospitals and clinics after reviewing a study commissioned to look at malpractice payouts.
Health care takes digital leap forward
Sacramento Bee - 8/18/10 - Imagine a doctor listening to the heartbeat of a patient half a world away. Or a young child opening wide into the peering lens of a high-definition camera. And doctors collaborating online, exchanging digital X-rays, MRIs and potential diagnoses.
Health centers to get $250 million in grants to build clinics, boost services
Washington Post - 8/18/10 - Health centers across the country are lining up for a shot in the arm from the Obama administration: $250 million in federal grants to build clinics and bolster services at existing clinics for low-income patients such as public housing residents, the homeless, seasonal farmworkers and others who struggle to pay for care.
End to COBRA subsidy means higher health insurance bills
USA Today - 8/18/10 - Jennifer Richards of Park Ridge, Ill., is angry that her family's monthly health insurance bill tripled in August to $1,250 after her husband lost his job and health benefits. But as bad as that is, what really upsets her is the inaction of Congress.
Study: 30% increase in teens with hearing loss
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/18/10 - Nearly 1 in 5 American adolescents has some level of hearing loss, a rate that has climbed substantially over the past two decades, according to a study released Tuesday.
California Telehealth Network to link centers
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/18/10 - Last week at the future Grand Central Station of the West (San Francisco's closed Transbay Terminal), we witnessed, with ceremonial shovels and earth, the groundbreaking for high-speed rail, touted by the nation's transportation secretary as a "really big deal."
New details emerge on $30M effort to launch California Telehealth Network
Sacramento Business Journal - 8/18/10 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Aneesh Chopra, President Obama’s point man for telehealth and related technologies, announced Tuesday the official launch of the California Telehealth Network.
