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Want to Improve Patient Relationships? Let Them Express Their Preferences 

May 02, 2020 at 01:40 am by pj

  By JEFF JARVIS   Selecting preferences is commonplace in our digital world. Users subscribe or unsubscribe from email lists, request notifications from their fa.... Read More
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AMA Highlights Health Coverage Options for Newly Unemployed

Apr 30, 2020 at 06:15 pm by pj

AMA urges individuals who lost their employer coverage to seek out coverage through ACA marketplaces or Medicaid; Warns consumers against sham insurance policies With the sig.... Read More
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Parrish Medical Group Announces the Expansion of Telehealth Services

Apr 30, 2020 at 06:08 pm by pj

Parrish Medical Group (PMG) announces the expansion of telehealth services to help patients get the care they need without having to leave their homes. Patients can use a smar.... Read More
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CMS Announces Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes 

Apr 30, 2020 at 06:05 pm by pj

Commission will comprehensively examine best practices in responding to COVID-19 in nursing homes   As a part of President Trump’s Opening Up America Again effort.... Read More
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Orlando Health Hospitals Add Additional Safety Measures for Patients Undergoing Procedures or Giving Birth 

Apr 30, 2020 at 02:15 pm by pj

  As the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 continues to decline across the Orlando Health network, and officials begin easing elective surgery restricti.... Read More
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A Question for Nurses Month: Is It Possible to Stay Inspired in the Pandemic?

Apr 30, 2020 at 02:12 pm by pj

National Nurses Week typically takes place from May 6th to May 12th. This year, we're celebrating the whole month long. Rich Bluni, RN, offers seven simple, yet powerful tacti.... Read More
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As Coronavirus Strikes, Crucial Data In Electronic Health Records Hard To Harvest

Apr 30, 2020 at 01:57 pm by pj

    Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News  When President Donald Trump started touting hydroxychloroquine as “one of the biggest game changers” for tr.... Read More
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Free Clinics Try To Fill Gaps As COVID Sweeps Away Job-Based Insurance

Apr 30, 2020 at 01:53 pm by pj

(Michaela Morris for KHN)     Michaela Gibson Morris, Kaiser Health News   TUPELO, Mississippi — Joe Delbert hadn’t needed the Tree of Life Fre.... Read More
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Fear Of Coronavirus Propels Some Smokers To Quit

Apr 30, 2020 at 01:49 pm by pj

 (Hannah Norman/KHN)   April Dembosky, KQED, Kaiser Health News In 40 years of smoking, Katie Kennedy has tried four times to quit but always went back to cigar.... Read More
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AdventHealth Outlines Procedures for Re-opening Operations

Apr 30, 2020 at 01:20 pm by pj

  AdventHealth announced Thursday morning, that in conjunction with Governor DeSantis’ phased-in reopening of the state’s economy, it will be ready to contin.... Read More
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Gov. DeSantis Beginning Phase One of "Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step" Plan to Reopen State Monday, May 4

Apr 30, 2020 at 08:21 am by pj

Governor DeSantis held a press conference Wednesday in Tallahassee to announce Phase I of the Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan to Re-Open Florida.   At the con.... Read More
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Liability Protection Under State or Federal Emergency Declarations

Apr 29, 2020 at 12:52 pm by pj

  By MICHAEL R. LOWE, Esq. and BRIAN C. EVANDER, Esq.   During declared emergencies the legal environment changes. Emergency declarations trigger an array of nont.... Read More
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How COVID-19 May Change A Trip To The Dentist’s Office

Apr 29, 2020 at 11:18 am by pj

   By Dr. Kyle Bogan    As the coronavirus pandemic swept the U.S., state governments mandated that dental offices open only for emergency procedur.... Read More
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Widely Used Surgical Masks Are Putting Health Care Workers At Serious Risk

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:28 pm by pj

(Lynne Shallcross/KHN illustration; Getty Images)   Shefali Luthra, Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News With medical supplies in high demand, federal authorities.... Read More
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Amid Coronavirus Distress, Wealthy Hospitals Hoard Millions

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:19 pm by pj

(Hannah Norman/KHN Illustration) Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Inova Health System, with campuses in some of the wealthiest suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Truman Medical.... Read More
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Health Insurers Prosper As COVID-19 Deflates Demand For Elective Treatments

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:15 pm by pj

Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News and Steven Findlay  As doctors and consumers are forced to put most nonemergency procedures on hold, many health insurers foresee str.... Read More
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Telehealth Will Be Free, No Copays, They Said. But Angry Patients Are Getting Billed.

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:09 pm by pj

    Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News  Karen Taylor had been coughing for weeks when she decided to see a doctor in early April. COVID-19 cases had just exceed.... Read More
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Born Into A Pandemic: Virus Complicates Births For Moms And Babies

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:05 pm by pj

(Courtesy of the Pease family)   JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News and Laura Ungar  Mallory Pease’s contractions grew stronger as her husband, Mitchell.... Read More
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Seniors With COVID-19 Show Unusual Symptoms, Doctors Say

Apr 28, 2020 at 02:00 pm by pj

    Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News   Older adults with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several “atypical” symptoms, com.... Read More
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Anti-Vaccine Activists Latch Onto Coronavirus To Bolster Their Movement

Apr 28, 2020 at 01:56 pm by pj

    Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News  While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, som.... Read More