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With health reform, President Obama had a great opportunity to correct some rampant flaws in the healthcare system. But for several reasons, which I'll itemize, the reform process has become its own worst enemy. The election in Massachusetts is the…

The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would allow parents of adult children to sue medical providers for pain and suffering if their children died as a result of medical negligence, according to a report by the Chicago Tribune.

A survey of more than 1,500 opinion leaders from the healthcare industry, academia and government found that an overwhelming majority of the leaders believe nurses should have more influence in health reform.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal brought the first HIPAA action under the HITECH provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in a suit against Health Net of Connecticut, according to report by AHA News Now.

In spite of recent reports that showed vertebroplasty was as effective as placebo, the Society of Interventional Radiology has come out in support of the procedure as an effective procedure for properly selected patients, as the society says was not…

Orthopedic Associates of Zanesville (Ohio) has completed major renovation to its offices, including significant upgrades to technology, according to a report in the Zanesville Times Reporter.

The California Department of Managed Health Care has set maximum wait times for HMO patients who request appointments with physicians and is the first state to do so, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

1. After President Obama won the election in 2008, the Republicans have won the last three major statewide elections — all in states that voted democrat for President Obama in 2008 — Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.

A clinic-based system to provide healthcare in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina could serve as a national model for providing low-cost primary care to low-income groups, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.

The physician recruiting firm Jackson & Coker is offering an enhanced online tool to calculate the revenue contribution of physician staff in different service lines, according to a release by Jackson & Coker.