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DoD Names Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 April 2007-US DOD: DoD Names Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health AffairsC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16042007 The Department of Defense announced today that Dr. S. Ward Casscells has assumed the duties as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs....
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-04-17
According to a Health Affairs and University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center survey, 60% of Americans believe smokers should pay more for health insurance, and 29% believe that obese policyholders should see premium hikes for health care cover
According to a Health Affairs and University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center survey, 60% of Americans believe smokers should pay more for health insurance, and 29% believe that obese policyholders should see premium hikes for health care coverage. More than half of those surveyed noted that people should be...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, survey, University of Chicago
Research articles 2007-01-01
J. Jarrett Clinton tapped as new acting Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 August 2000-US DOD: J. Jarrett Clinton tapped as new acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14082000 Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced the designation of Dr. J. Jarrett Clinton, to serve as acting...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2000-08-15
Johns Hopkins Vice President for Medicine/Dean named Vice President for Health Affairs at Emory
ATLANTA--BW HealthWire--Dec. 20, 1995--Michael M. E. Johns, M.D., vice president for medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, and dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named executive vice president for Health Affairs and director of The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University.As director of the...
Tags: Benefits, Dr., Emory University, HEALTHCARE, Johns Hopkins University, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1995-12-20
Health Affairs Publishes Research Paper Demonstrating Benefits of Gainsharing
The May-June issue of Health Affairs magazine has published a research paper that clearly concludes that gainsharing has a positive financial and clinical impact on the health care organizations that pursue it. The research paper examines the results of the Office of Inspector General OIG approved gainsharing arrangement designed...
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Research articles 2008-05-15
Universal Detection Technology Analyzes the Recent Budget Increase of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Health Affairs
Universal Detection Technology ( http://www.udetection.com ) (OTCBB: UDTT) (Frankfurt: PO8), a developer of early warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and a provider of counter terrorism training and solutions, provided an analysis of the Recent Budget Increase of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Health Affairs. On...
Tags: health care, Microsoft Office, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Research articles 2008-04-08
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) to Announce Results of Smallpox Vaccination Study at NPC Morning 'Newsmaker'
News Advisory: Dr. William Winkenwerder, Assistant Secretary of Defense Health Affairs, will announce results of a study of a large-scale smallpox vaccination program that has implications for all Americans. The results of the project are being released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director, National...
Tags: Benefits, Dr., HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2003-06-24
-U.S. NAVY: DOD holds conference on expanding health care initiatives by DOD Public Affairs
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 July 1998-U.S. NAVY: DOD holds conference on expanding health care initiatives by DOD Public Affairs C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:020798 Two new family health care initiatives were announced June 23 by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Sue Bailey, in Nashville, Tenn. The...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 1998-07-02
How Much Health Plan Requirements Cost Physicians
The largest and most detailed national survey of physician practices about their costs of dealing with health plans found that they spend $31 billion a year on it. According to the study, which was published in Health Affairs, physicians spend about three hours a week interacting with insurers; clinical and...
Tags: Physician, Health Care, Medical Group Management Association, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-05-17
Health IT Study: Good Try, But No Cigar
A highly publicized study of Texas hospitals found that the use of health IT significantly improves quality and efficiency. But some observers question whether the results reflect the use of electronic records or simply the correlation between health IT adoption and a culture of excellence in some hospitals. ...
Tags: Hospital, Physician, Information Technology, Cigar, Geisinger Health System, Health Care, Kurt Williamsen, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-01-29
OMAN: HEALTH OFFICIALS TO ATTEND WHO MEET IN MEXICO.(Dr Ahmed bin Abdul Qadir al Ghassani for World Health Organization meeting)(Brief Article)
According to "Oman Observer", Dr Ahmed bin Abdul Qadir al Ghassani, Health Affairs Under-Secretary at the Health Ministry, left for Mexico to attend a ministerial meeting to be held there from November 16 to 20. The meeting is organized ... According to "Oman Observer", Dr Ahmed...
Tags: health care, World Health Organization
Research articles 2004-11-15
United States Adults Health Care System Views and Experiences, 2001
This data brief based on The Commonwealth Fund 2001 International Health Policy Survey focuses on the health system views and experiences of U.S. adults. Comparative findings from the five-nation survey were reported in the May/June issue of Health Affairs. The data brief includes additional analysis of the survey that does...
Tags: Health Care, Survey, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2002-05-22
USA: DOD INCREASES EMPHASIS ON DEPLOYMENT HEALTH.(Brief Article)
DoD Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of Defense Health Affairs, has established the Deployment Health Support Directorate as a permanent organization and appointed Ellen P. Embrey, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense (Force DoD Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of Defense Health Affairs,...
Tags: directorate, health care, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2002-05-16
News conference on DoD efforts to help rebuild the Iraqi Health System. Page 1 of 2.
M2 PRESSWIRE-28 July 2003-US DOD: News conference on DoD efforts to help rebuild the Iraqi Health System. Page 1 of 2.C1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07252003 DoD News Briefing Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. William Winkenwerder Friday, July 25,...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Iraq, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2003-07-28
News Flash: 1945 Law Allows Concentration of Power in US Health Insurance
Last week, some media reports noted that US Congressional Democrats countered an insurance industry study suggesting health care reform would cost much more than estimated by threatening a repeal of the McCarran-Ferguson Act's anti-trust exemption for health insurance. For example, in the New York Times Prescriptions Blog : ...
Tags: Health Care
News items 2009-10-20
New deployment health care guideline announced.
M2 PRESSWIRE-8 February 2002-US DOD: New deployment health care guideline announced C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07022002 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. William Winkenwerder announced today the implementation of a new clinical guideline for use by...
Tags: Benefits, Gulf, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2002-02-08
The Senate Health Reform Bill: A First Look
As readers of Health Affairs are undoubtedly already aware, the Senate Democratic leadership has released HR 3590, the 2,074-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  The bill combines the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions HELP Committee bill marked up this summer and the Senate Finance Committee bill marked up...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Health Care
News items 2009-11-19
America's primary health care backbone needs reinvestment and re-imagining
59% of U.S. physicians say their patients have difficulty paying for health care and medicines. The foot soldiers of American health care are front-line primary care physicians PCPs. Compared to their colleagues in ten other developed countries, American PCPs say their nation is far behind other countries' health...
Tags: Health Care
News items 2009-11-06
Health Spending Will Double By 2007: HHS.
National health care spending is projected to double over the next decade, rising from $1 trillion in 1996 to $2.1 trillion in 2007, according to a study by the Department of Health and Human Services published in the Sept./Oct. issue of Health AffairsNational health care spending is...
Tags: health care, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Research articles 1998-09-21
DoD increases emphasis on deployment health.
M2 PRESSWIRE-10 May 2002-US DOD: DoD increases emphasis on deployment health C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05092002 Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of Defense Health Affairs, has established the Deployment Health Support Directorate as a permanent organization and appointed Ellen...
Tags: Benefits, directorate, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2002-05-10
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