Health Informatics News |
- Doctor blocks bill on medicating kids
- Patient or fetus -- whose rights prevail?
- As records go digital, cultures clash
- Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week
- Medics overwhelmed by injured
- Insurers, state reach pact on cancer
- Latest outrage: home-care scams
- Medicaid to launch huge data project
- Insurer rethinking rules after chat
| Doctor blocks bill on medicating kids Posted: 4/30/2010 © Miami Herald Rep. Paige Kreegel, a physician and chair of the Health Care Services Policy Committee, said he didn't know much about the bill, aimed at preventing overmedicating of children in foster care. But he said doctors are already regulated enough. |
| Patient or fetus -- whose rights prevail? Posted: 1/26/2010 © Associated Press The case of Samantha Burton, who was forced to remain in the hospital for the welfare of her fetus, is drawing attention to the question of whether pregnancy deprives patients of their rights. |
| As records go digital, cultures clash Posted: By Sammy Mack 1/21/2010 © Health News Florida The switch to electronic medical records has been rocky for doctors in Broward who refused to pay what they called unwarranted charges and were turned over to collections. More disputes are arising as midcareer physicians bump up against the world of high-tech software sales. |
| Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week Posted: By Carol Gentry 1/15/2010 © Health News Florida Since 2004, a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed almost 14 million pills to Medicaid patients at a cost to taxpayers of $43 million, a feverish pace of 1,000 prescriptions a week. A state senator says the doctor should be the "poster boy for tougher enforcement actions." |
| Posted: 1/14/2010 © New York Times First aid responders and doctors tried to triage the massive number of injured in Haiti as the death toll estimate rose to 45,000. They didn't even have aspirin, much less anesthesia. |
| Insurers, state reach pact on cancer Posted: By Christine Jordan Sexton 1/13/2010 © Health News Florida The state’s largest insurance companies on Wednesday said they have signed a voluntary pact committing them to cover routine medical treatments for cancer patients who enroll in clinical trials. |
| Latest outrage: home-care scams Posted: 12/7/2009 © Associated Press A new report says scams in Miami- Dade brought half a billion dollars in Medicare payments for home health-care into the county last year, more than the entire rest of the nation combined. Many "patients" got big-screen TVs or free maid service. |
| Medicaid to launch huge data project Posted: 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 Posted: 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. |
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