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Department of Health and Human Services today launched the first online collection of the federal resources and capabilities available to mitigate the health impacts of emergencies....to aid state, tribal, territorial, local officials in health and emergency management as they guide communities in responding to and recovering from disasters.

as specialty pharmacies proliferate, questions are emerging about their role and business practices

• onerous refill policies that require hours on the phone
• shipments that are delayed or error-ridden
• difficulty reaching a pharmacist or other representatives
• patients are limited to one specialty pharmacy..often one owned by their insurer or pharmacy benefit manager
• conflicts of interest,.many of the bigger specialty pharmacies are owned by insurers or pharmacy benefit managers

Find Nursing Home Problems in Your State...Use this (interactive) tool to compare nursing homes in a state based on the deficiencies cited by regulators and the penalties imposed in the past three years. You can also search over 60,000 nursing home inspection reports to look for trends or patterns…

healthcare industry is infamous for its overuse and misuse of buzzwords and acronyms…arise from the ever-changing regulatory shifts designed to improve quality care and reign in increasing costs…One …commonly misused or misunderstood buzzwords today is "population health management,"…

Greek debt crisis this past few weeks has understandably been about what this will mean for the financial system,.. another storyline that is starting to emerge as it becomes more apparent that there is no good way out of the crisis for the Greeks...could be entering a health crisis, too.

Pharmacists in hospitals across the U.S. are performing more medication-related patient transition of care interventions, medication order review, and patient medication counseling,...Pharmacists’ movement into more direct patient care roles combined with the widespread use of medication-use technology are improving efficiency, safety, and clinical outcomes,..

Improving access to care is one of the primary mandates of the Affordable Care Act....many health systems are stepping up efforts to offer convenient, fast and lower-cost alternatives to the traditional in-person office visit. One strategy they are adopting is video visits. Patients can use their computers or their smartphones to consult with their primary or specialist physicians...

Your.MD aims to change the way we self-diagnosis online…By using artificial intelligence to eliminate unlikely causes of a disease, the company claims to do away with many of the flaws common to the old method of googling ones symptoms..

Some facilities fail to properly oversee Coumadin. Too much can cause bleeding; too little, clots. Nursing homes are “a perfect setup for bad things happening,” one expert says. .. Given Coumadin’s challenges — and the coordination required among doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratories – nursing homes are the “perfect setup for bad things happening,”...

Charitable drug distributors are improving access to essential medications for low-income, uninsured patients...Dispensary of Hope...has collected more than $150 million in medications from both manufacturers and health-systems...motivated to donate by moral imperatives and economic incentives....