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Health Department Launches $1B Innovation Initiative

WASHINGTON – The government will award up to $1 billion to fund innovative projects across the country that test creative ways to deliver high quality medical care and save money.

The Department of Health and Human Services launched the Health Care Innovation Challenge Nov. 14. The initiative will also give preference to projects that rapidly hire, train and deploy healthcare workers.

Oakland Clinic Provides Medical Care to Ex-Offenders

Most people who leave state prisons do so with no consistent place to get medical care. Instead, former inmates rely on scarce county-funded clinics or fall back on county-funded emergency rooms, straining California’s already stretched medical safety net. Some relief has entered the system in the form of early funding from the federal government’s health care overhaul. Reporter: Sarah Varney

HHS Toolkit of Public Health Emergency Text Messages Available

A new toolkit of prepared cell phone text messages advising people how to protect their health after a disaster is available now through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. These messages support state and local emergency managers in disaster response and are available online at http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa.

Software Error Incorrectly Allowed 1,500 Inmates to be Placed on Unsupervised Parole

Corrections officials installed a computer program to assess an inmate’s likelihood of reoffending and in March 2010 reported that refinements to it had determined more than 600 inmates had been placed on non-revocable parole who should not have been.

Emerging Solutions to Help Reduce Recidivism

The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. There are more than 2.4 million incarcerated Americans, one in every 100 adults. In addition, more than 7 million adults, one in every 31 adults, are under federal, state or local correctional control.

>> Download the White paper about how to reduce recidivism.

HHS Announces Proposed Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule

HITECH lets people know who has accessed their health information

A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the accounting of disclosures requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, is available for public comment.

Growing Evidence of the Benefits of Health Information Technology (HIT) Study

A study completed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and published in the journal Health Affairs finds growing evidence of the benefits of health information technology (HIT). Using methods that were employed by two previous independent reviews, the new study finds that 92 percent of articles on HIT reached conclusions that showed overall positive effects of HIT on key aspects of care including quality and efficiency of health care.

WellCare Launches HealthAssist Medication Adherence App for Smart Phones

WellCare has announced the release of HealthAssist, a medication adherence and health management application available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The company said the application is free and can be downloaded through the Apple apps store.

According to WellCare Today, the HealthAssist SmartPhone application helps users, especially those with chronic diseases, with the following features:

– CalendarAlert provides the user with a scheduled text reminder for each medication

– RefillAlert provides the user with a reminder of when they need to request a prescription refill

– HealthAlert provides the user each month with “condition- related:”

– Breaking-news headlines

– Health management articles

– Dialogue forums or chat rooms

– Clinical trials

– EMRAlert provides the user with a way to store and update a private electronic medical record

WellCare Today (WCT) specializes in providing improving healthcare outcomes via applications on smart phones. By texting application users medication reminders and educating patients via web links to condition-related articles and social media sites, WCT said it expects to improve chronic disease outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The applications are free of charge to the user and sponsors get condition-related branding opportunities.

More Patients Making Appointments Online As Doctors Embrace Web

About 16 percent of family doctors used online scheduling in 2009, up from 6 percent in 2005, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Most are doing it on their own or through health systems where they work.

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

NPR Reported on this issue.
The immigrants that are detained will be taken to prison, and money comes from the state/fed to pay for their staying, instead of just deporting them. Bottom line: the prison business will boom in Arizona!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741