Sunday, March 28, 2010

Health Informatics News

Health Informatics News

Medicaid to launch huge data project

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By Christine Jordan Sexton 11/13/2009 © Health News Florida  Florida is preparing to make the health histories of more than 1 million Medicaid patients accessible to 80,000 doctors, clinics and hospitals in the state on a secured-access system, the project director said Thursday. The aims: improve patient care, avoid duplication.

Insurer rethinking rules after chat

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By Christine Jordan Sexton 11/4/2009 © Health News Florida Following a meeting with Sen. Don Gaetz, the state’s largest health insurer is examining its policies for providing health insurance to cancer patients who undergo clinical trials.

Ban balance-billing, advocate says

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By Carol Gentry and Mary Jo Melone 11/3/2009 © Health News Florida  Sean Shaw, Florida's Insurance Consumer Advocate, is shopping around for a lawmaker brave enough to take on the medical lobby. He wants to outlaw balance-billing, a common practice that sticks patients with big bills their plan won't cover.

Public option finds favor even in FL

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10/29/2009 © Miami Herald From the house staff at Jackson Memorial to the president-elect of the AMA, Florida doctors and nurses in quite different venues expressed support Wednesday for health-reform legislation that includes a public option, although there's disagreement on some details.

FL Medicare patients 'overserved'

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10/6/2009 ©  Fort Myers News-Press Every area of Florida except Daytona Beach and Tallahassee showed above-average billing for doctors' services in Medicare last year, according to a GAO report. The state was already a national outlier by 2000, yet recorded a big jump in billings per patient by 2008.

Doctor accused of fondling gives up license

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By Carol Gentry 10/2/2009 © Health News Florida A Bradenton woman who agreed to wear a wire into the office of the doctor she said sexually accosted her -- Bradenton internist Gangadhara Rao Chapalamadugu -- told the Board of Medicine today that Rao should go to jail, and board members agreed after seeing complaints from six other patients. But their jurisdiction involves only medical practice; they accepted voluntary relinquishment  to keep him from ever practicing medicine in Florida again.

State clears doctors, parents protest

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By Carol Gentry 9/25/2009 © Health News Florida Two doctors who are being sued over the high-profile death of Boca Raton teen-ager Stephanie Kuleba will not have to worry about the Board of Medicine. Confidential state documents show the state dropped its investigation months ago, and that the girl's parents were turned away when they tried to offer evidence.

Lawyer wants all records? All?

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By Mary Jo Melone 9/24/2009 Health News Florida Florida patients have a right to ask for hospital records about past mistakes. But do they have the right to every report, every x-ray, every single piece of paper for the last 75 years?  Tampa’s largest hospital says no and has gone to court to fight it.

Today's call for action began in FL

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By Ruth Morris 9/17/2009 © Health News Florida In Washington, D.C. today, 400 of the country’s most prominent healthcare experts unveiled a letter to Congress demanding action on the uninsured and rising costs. And it was all the brainchild of a professor who lives on quiet Anna Maria Island.   

Court asked to revive '3 strikes'

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McMillen By Carol Gentry 9/10/2009 © Health News Florida Using a malpractice case involving a child with an amputated foot, Orlando attorney Scott McMillen has filed a court challenge to legislative limits on “3 strikes and you’re out” -- a 2004 amendment aimed at dangerous doctors. The limits prevent court cases from counting as strikes.  
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