By Nadia de la Houssaye Telehealth is one of the most exciting health care developments in decades. It has gained a firm foothold across the ...
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After more than six years since the Affordable Care Act became law in March 2010, officials at the Pennsylvania Medical Society say health care reform has created ...
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When patients with chronic diseases get text reminders from their doctor’s office to take their medicines, it doubles the chances they will take those drugs ...
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Read More »Docs Should Negotiate Health Care Payer Contracts
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Read More »Maybe the Crowd Can Finally Tell Us The Cost of a Mammogram
How much does it cost? That’s the big, unknown question in healthcare. The same medical procedures cost different amounts depending on too many variables. Patients ...
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By Marilynn Marchione ASSOCIATED PRESS Who survives Ebola and why? Health workers treating patients in Sierra Leone, including some who died doing that work, have ...
Read More »U.S. Health Care System Unprepared for Ebola
By Jeff Donn and Garance Burke ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly ...
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