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Donaghue Foundation Annual Meeting & Conference
Wednesday, I went to the Donaghue Foundation Annual Meeting and Conference. The Donaghue Foundation was established to “promote medical knowledge…
New report details questions and answers on implementing medical interpretation for CT Medicaid consumers
A new report, Medicaid Payments for Medical Interpreters: Implementation Questions and Recommended Action, commissioned by the CT Health Foundation lays…
Life expectancy drops for women in 183 US counties
From 1983 to 1999 life expectancy in many US counties decreased, especially for women (183 counties) while life expectancy for…
Retail medical clinic issue brief
Connecticut now has at least fifteen retail medical clinics, mainly Minute Clinics in CVS stores, but more are coming. Go…
CA to review thousands of insurance policy cancellations after consumers get sick, New CT law prohibits this practice
The LA Times reports that the CA Dept. of Managed Health Care will be reviewing thousands of cancelled individual policies…
Desperate Measures
Yesterday, I was catching up with a friend of mine who lives in Memphis when she told me about the…
Yale School of Nursing Bellos Lecture — A fresh view of racial and ethnic disparities
This year’s Sybil Bellos Lecture at the Yale School of Nursing, given today by Harvard’s David Williams, PhD, MPH, focused…
“Sick Around the World” airs tonight
Tonight’s episode of Frontline, Sick Around the World, compares the universal health care systems of five capitalist countries – Germany,…
Community Catalyst at the HealthFirst Authority
Friday, Michael Miller of Massachusetts-based Community Catalyst presented to the Cost, Cost Containment & Finance Working Group of the HealthFirst…