Two basic premises behind the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law last year by President Obama, were the high costs of healthcare and the sizable number of Americans lacking health insurance. A seemingly even more basic premise is that advances in biomedical research and develop...
Read More →On August 16, 2011, Dr. Alfred Hamilton from the School of Public Health and Health Service at George Washington University and Dr. Jay Conyers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) moderated a symposium on the George Washington University campus titled, “Th...
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Understandably, the attentions of health-policy watchers are focused intently on the implementation of the landmark 2010 health reform law. The future of the law seems as unsettled as ever. “Obama-care” draws sharp barbs in the nascent presidential-nominating race. Meanwhile, appella...
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Affordable Care Act New federal guidelines are eliminating out-of-pocket costs for women’s preventive care – including birth control. These new guidelines are part of the affordable care act which requires everyone to have insurance and the goal is to stop health problems before they sta...
Read More →Many rural physicians don’t have access to newer technological advances to help them sort through patient information easily. But, thanks to a new federal initiative, paper patient charts can now be obsolete. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley made a stop in Selma and visited Pediatric Adolescent Med...
Read More →Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act funding will be awarded to help hospitals and providers improve care with new technology-backed programs, training and monitoring, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid announced June 22. The funding, part of the public-private Partnership for Patient...
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