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Public health hero makes healthy options the default
Philadelphia's top public health advocate is the commissioner of public health, Dr. Donald Schwarz, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Here are just a few of the changes he has backed:
To make it
Winning the war on obesity
Obesity rates have doubled in the last 30 years, according to three news studies published in the British medical journal Lancet. Among developed nations, Americans were the fattest worldwide. That's
Name change highlights importance of care continuum
What's in a name? Last week, the group known as the Disease Management Association of America and, more recently, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, changed its name to the Care Continuum Alliance .
Humana acquires Hummingbird Coaching Services
Humana Inc. holds a strong position in the Medicare Advantage market, but the Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer could run into problems meeting minimum medical-loss ratio requirements in the
Hospitals, insurers said to provide patients with similar wellness data
With so much health information still not interoperable, is it any surprise that there's bound to be a lot of duplicated data? A report from IDC says patients often get the same information on their
Study: Paperwork discourages wellness visits by consumers
Given that an automation vendor issued the study, the conclusion isn't a huge surprise, but its conclusions are still pretty intuitive. According to research commissioned by IBM, one in four U.S.
