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HHS agenda looks to IT for self-management, patient engagement
HHS' newest 10-year health goals for the country, Healthy People 2020, focus on prevention, shared decisionmaking between patients and providers, personalized self-management of health conditions
H1N1 rates down, but many children still positive for virus
It looks like the latest wave of the H1N1 pandemic has loosened its grip a bit on the U.S., though almost 40 percent of U.S. children are testing positive, according to results released by a national
SPOTLIGHT: Reporter details personal H1N1 experience
Your editor, fortunately, has been spared direct knowledge of how it feels to contract the H1N1 virus. That's not the case for HealthDay News reporter Serena Gordon, who went through a 10-day fight
SPOTLIGHT: Public blames drugmakers for H1N1 vaccine shortage
Consumers are quite frustrated by the problems they're having getting an H1N1 flu vaccination, and doubtless, there's plenty of blame being handed around out there. But according to a new survey by
Most people who want H1N1 vaccine can't get it
It's a poor reflection on our public health status, but it seems to be the reality. According to a new study by researchers form Harvard University School of Public Health, the majority of Americans
Pharmacists say PBMs are holding up Tamiflu supply
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) is taking pharmacy benefit managers to the woodshed, upset with policies that seem to hold up claims for materials needed to create the liquid
Hospitals' H1N1 response suggests deeper capacity for change
Generally speaking, I don't give hospital executives much of a break. In fact, I'm the sort of critic that castigates hospitals for their traditional, rigid management style and palpable resistance
SPOTLIGHT: NYC students get H1N1 vaccination without parents' permission
This week, leaders with New York City schools had to admit that they'd made the kind of error that damages the image of H1N1 vaccination treatment. As part of its effort to vaccinate students against
Liquid Tamiflu shortage puts pressure on pharmacists, parents
Not a day goes by without some fear that the H1N1 vaccine will remain out of reach for too many, too long. Now, it's the children's dose of liquid Tamiflu that has parents scouring pharmacies,
Los Angeles hospital required to reduce ED wait times
Official attitudes, pre-H1N1 outbreak: Long hospital emergency department waits are a complex problem that isn't going away anytime soon. Official attitudes post-H1N1 outbreak: Long ED waits are a
