CMS innovation advisors set to evaluate healthcare

Posted by Sofia Downing 8 Feb, 2012

The Centers The program will help healthcare professionals expand skills that will drive improvements to patient care and reduce costs. After a six-month orientation phase, Innovation Advisors will work with the CMS Innovation Center to test new models of care delivery in their own organizations and communities. They will also create partnerships to find effective new ideas and share those ideas regionally and nationally.The 73 individuals, selected from 920 applications through a competitive process, include clinicians, allied health professionals, health administrators and others. The advisors will attend in-person meetings and remote sessions and apply what they learn about topics such as healthcare economics and finance, population health, systems analysis and operations research. Full Post…

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Lasagna Roll-Ups

Posted by Alexis Moysey 4 Feb, 2012

My 3 year old has recently become very independent.  She wants to do everything herself, including all things food.  This makes for some contention in the kitchen.  As much as every mother loves having her very helpful children help with dinner, some recipes are definitely easier for little hands to help prepare.  This is that recipe.   You cant mess it up and it doesnt matter if it looks pretty in the end, because each person gets their own individual lasagna.

Start by boiling your lasagna noodles according to package directions.  Drain and lay them out on a piece of wax paper to dry.

In the meantime, chop your veggies.  I chose spinach and zucchini.  I chopped my spinach very fine and the zucchini pieces were pretty small as well. I used:<

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Too many tests? Routine checks getting second look

Posted by Alexis Moysey 23 Jan, 2012

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent headlines offered a fresh example of how the health care system subjects people to too many medical tests — this time research showing millions of older women don’t need their bones checked for osteoporosis nearly so often.

Chances are you’ve heard that many expert groups say cancer screening is overused, too, from mammograms given too early or too often to prostate cancer tests that may not save lives. It’

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Study Shows How Stress Triggers Immune System

Posted by Archie Dollery 19 Jan, 2012

 

MONDAY, Jan. 23 () — Shedding some light on why stress might be bad for you, a new study finds that parts of your immune system ramp up when you get into personal conflicts with others.

It’s not clear how this effect of stress may make you sick, but the activated parts of the immune system — which cause inflammation in the body — have been linked to conditions such as diabetes and cancer.

“The message is that the flotsam and jetsam of life predict changes in your underlying biology in ways that cumulatively could have a bad effect on health,” said study co-author Shelley Taylor, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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How Gen X reacted to the H1N1 pandemic

Posted by Sofia Downing 19 Jan, 2012
  • How Gen X reacted to the H1N1 pandemic

    Study: More educated most likely to get vaccinated against H1N1

    Author: By William Hudson CNN Published On: Tue Jan 24 06:27:09 CST 2012  Updated On: Tue Jan 24 08:11:15 CST 2012

    In April 2009, the CDC identified a new virus in humans: H1N1, or what was then called swine flu, and the wheels of the public health machine started turning.

    The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global H1N1 pandemic in June, and by October 2009, the first doses of an H1N1-specific vaccine were administered.

    A study published Tuesday looks at how Americans in their thirties reacted to the availability of a vaccine. In

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