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July 2009 Blog Posts (22)

Seattle Area Health Co-op Offers Model for U.S. Healthcare Overhaul

Colleagues,



As reported in the New York Times ... Dr. Harry J. Shriver III, chief of a clinic near Seattle run by Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound ... one of the country’s few surviving health insurance cooperatives, has recently embraced electronic medical records and a collaborative model of primary care, allowing him to practice proactive medicine for the first time in years.



On Capitol Hill, those innovations have made Group Health a prototype for a political… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on July 7, 2009 at 8:44am — No Comments

Infectious Diseases In-Theater: Risks and Mitigation

The executive summary from this roundtable, held on June 5, is available on the Institute of Federal Health Care website: www.fedhealthinst.org



The roundtable produced a frank assessment of current and emerging threats and actions that might help deal with them.



Also on the IFHC website is a brief piece by Ellen Embrey, currently performing the duties of assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, on DoD's… Continue

Added by Nancy Tomich on July 1, 2009 at 2:12pm — No Comments

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