Legacy Topic: Health Care
Affordable Care Act needs traction with minorities
Feb 17, 2014
The Affordable Care Act continues to encounter traction issues. One big problem: the administration’s apparent failure to connect meaningfully with minorities
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Hospitals are sharing data to save lives
Feb 14, 2014
Sharing data and best practices have caused dramatic savings
Why a health insurance company entered the housing market
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Annie Baxter
Feb 13, 2014
Taking action on research suggesting health has a lot to do with where you live
Study casts doubt on value of mammograms
Feb 12, 2014
But years of awareness campaigns and PSAs have patients asking for them, and doctors prescribing
Robyn Beck
Healthcare teams 'wrapped around' patients
Feb 11, 2014
Making primary and specialty care for the poorest - and sickest - patients accessible
Delays for Obamacare, on the business side
Feb 11, 2014
In early February, the Obama administration announced again it was pushing back some health care rules.
Another day, another delay for the Affordable Care Act
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Kai Ryssdal
Feb 10, 2014
Companies have more time to figure out how the healthcare law affects them
For public good, not for profit.
Delivering better medical care, at $15 an hour
Feb 10, 2014
Community health workers: an inexpensive and extremely effective medical resource
Problems in the U.S. drug pipeline
Feb 10, 2014
Ahead of the release of a GAO report and a Congressional hearing Monday on drug shortages, we look at what’s behind the increasing number of problems in the U.S. drug pipeline (quality control and closed plants are two reasons) and play out how the shortages affect the cost of delivering care and patients’ health.
Health care data is becoming big target for hackers
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Molly Wood
Feb 6, 2014
Turns out a lot of our medical records aren't very secure, and might be even more valuable to hackers.