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- November 14, 2013
Health equity and racial and ethnic workforce diversity
Read moreTo achieve health equity, health care organizations need to diversify their staff. Diversifying the health care workforce has been shown to help improve access to health and health care for communities of color. Developing a health care workforce that reflects the racial and ethnic composition of the population is...
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What doctor shortage? Some experts say changes in delivery will erase need for more physicians
Read moreYou’ve heard the grim prognosis many times before. Unless immediate action is taken, the U.S. supply of doctors will be 91,500 short of the number needed by 2020 and 130,600 physicians short by 2025, according to an Association of American Medical Colleges estimate. Read the full story here.
- November 14, 2013
North Carolina’s newest medical school focuses on rural
Read moreCampbell University President Jerry Wallace had been waiting for this moment for four years. “There it is,” he said. “The beautiful Leon Levine Hall of Medical Science. It’s already working to make a difference in our state.” Read the full story here.
- November 14, 2013
Clinical management apps: Creating partnerships between providers and patients
Read moreClinical Management Apps: Creating Partnerships Between Providers and Patients
- November 14, 2013
Reflecting on health reform: A tale of two IT procurements
Read moreLast week, the president of the United States, the most powerful person on earth, the man whose finger rests on the nuclear button, struck a bold blow for . . . procurement reform? “There are a whole range of things that we’re going to need to do once we...
- November 14, 2013
CMS unveils tool allowing researchers to access federal healthcare data
Read moreHealth services researchers eager for cheaper, timelier and more accessible federal healthcare data had reason to celebrate Tuesday, when the CMS unveiled a tool to make such information much more readily available. Read the full article here.
- November 14, 2013
Aligning Federal and State efforts on payment reform
Read moreAligningFederal and State Efforts on Payment Reform
- November 14, 2013
Health overhaul debate snags compounding bill
Read moreA year after a meningitis outbreak from contaminated pain injections killed at least 64 people and sickened hundreds, Congress is ready to increase federal oversight over compounding pharmacies that custom-mix medications. Read the full story here.
- November 14, 2013
Poorer women delay examination of breast lumps, study suggests
Read moreYounger women with limited finances are more likely than others to delay seeking medical attention after finding an abnormality in their breast, according to a new study. The study of nearly 600 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer suggested that strategies to improve early diagnosis of breast cancer should...
- November 14, 2013
F.D.A. ruling would all but eliminate trans fats
Read moreThe Food and Drug Administration proposed measures on Thursday that would all but eliminate artery-clogging, artificial trans fats from the food supply, the culmination of three decades of effort by public health advocates to get the government to take action against them. Artificial trans fats — a major contributor...
