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| Guest Blog | Brian Klepper
 January 06, 2009 | Health Care Reform | | The Obama health care team should consider a wide range of useful, innovative health IT options |  [By David C. Kibbe & Brian Klepper] Yesterday we tried to put EHRs into perspective. They're important, and we can't effectively move health care forward without them. But they're only one of many important health IT functions. EHRs and health IT alone won't fix health care. So developing a comprehensive but effective national health IT plan is a huge undertaking that requires broad, non-ideological thinking. | | |
| Story of the Week | January 06, 2009 | | The story of lead poisoning | By Mike Magee, MD The recent financial crisis in the U.S. unleashed a passionate debate on the absence of sufficient regulation to protect the interests of Americans. But as regulations associated with health in America well illustrate, it's not enough to have regulation. You must have the right type of regulation at the right time, and it must be enforced. Case in point? Lead poisoning. | | |
Guest Blog | Brian Klepper
January 05, 2009 | Health Care Reform | | To get its health care infrastruction buildout effort right, the Obama team should think more broadly than EHRs | [By David C. Kibbe & Brian Klepper] On December 19th, we published an Open Letter to the Obama Health Team, cautioning the incoming Administration against limiting its Health Information Technology (IT) investments to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Instead, we recommended that their health IT plan be rethought to favor a large array of innovative applications that can be easily adopted to result in more effective, less expensive care. | Topic Tags: Brian Klepper, David Kibbe, EHRs, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMRs, Health 2.0, Health Care Reform, Health Information Technology, HIT, Obama Health Care Team | |
| Story of the Week | January 05, 2009 | | A serious condition that shouldn’t be ignored | By Mike Magee, MD Postpartum depression is a serious condition that can have devastating consequences when it goes unrecognized or untreated. It affects one in eight women who give birth, yet it is just now getting the attention it deserves. | | |
| | January 05, 2009 | Health Care Reform | | 7 VISIONS to guide the build-out of a new health care system | By Mike Magee, MD  As we move toward a new administration, and our new leaders and their challenges are laid out before us, it is useful to ask ourselves, "Do we know what we want to build?" For health care, I've given this question some serious thought over the past 24 months, and come up with "7 VISIONS" to guide our health care future. I call them "TransVisions," value-driven aspirations capable of bridging our country from its segmented, exclusionary, interventional past to an integrated, inclusionary preventive future. Here are my thoughts, which I invite you to share with others.
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Guest Blog | Judith A. Salerno, MD, MS
January 05, 2009 | Diet and Nutrition | |  When it comes to sodium, excess is the American way. Convenience is to blame as much as the kitchen table salt shaker: the most common sodium culprits are not created in our own kitchens but come already packaged from the grocery store or served through a drive-thru window. However, high sodium in our diet, with the potential to contribute to high blood pressure and heart disease, is not something we can ignore for the sake of our fast-lane lifestyle. If, in order to cut down on sodium, we have to be uber-prepared with bagged snacks and sandwiches or home-cooked meals, and give up all frozen meals, canned soups and fast foods, it’s just not going to happen. Not to mention, many of us have acquired a taste for high salt levels in our foods. | | |
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|  I think we should have health care paid for by the government for everyone. It doesn't have to be elaborate, but a socialized medical system like Canada has."  Hard for the insured, too  Keep health care private!  Work to stay healthy  Testing is important  Please keep it affordable  Everybody deserves a chance  | Dr. Tom Linden's Health Blog | | |  Water Disinfection for Developing Countries No Time for Health Like the Holidays Don't go to the Hospital Without these Ten Safety Tips Ain’t Nobody’s Fault But Mine An Open Letter to the Obama Health Team Post-Election Healthcare Reform Yearning for Universal Coverage Is Not Universal Is America's Health Care System Failing? Probiotics: Hope or Hype? |
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