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  • Online Health Info Access Linked to Clinical Services Use

    Researchers with Kaiser Permanente in Denver, Colorado found health plan members with access to their medical records and the ability to communicate online with clinicians made more use of clinical services than members without online access. The findings of the team from Kaiser Permanente’s Institute of Health Research appear in the 21 November issue of…

  • More U.S. Primary Doctors Using Electronic Health Records

    A greater percentage of primary care doctors in the U.S. now use electronic medical records in their practices, according to an international survey by the Commonwealth Fund, but lag in other indicators of affordability and administrative time. The survey findings were reported online today in the journal Health Affairs. The research team, led by Commonwealth…

  • Americans Use More Gas and Renewables, Less Coal in 2011

    Americans used less energy overall in 2011 than in 2010 due mainly to reductions in the amount of energy wasted, along with natural gas and renewable sources increasing, and coal declining. The findings were published in an annual accounting of national energy supply and demand by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, based on data from the…

  • More Americans Get Blood Pressure Under Control by 2010

    A larger percentage of Americans with hypertension had their blood pressure under control by the end of 2010 than in 2001, a gain attributed to higher use of multiple drugs to treat the condition. The findings from the study conducted by National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and…

  • Clinical Trial to Evaluate Type 2 Diabetes Treatments

    A clinical trial coordinated by George Washington University in Washington, D.C. will test the effectiveness of glucose-lowering drugs in treating type 2 diabetes. The five year, $134 million study is funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at National Institute of Health. John Lachin, professor of biostatistics, epidemiology and…

  • Color Codes, Eye-Level Positions Boost Healthy Food Choices

    A hospital’s program encouraging more healthful cafeteria food choices through color-coded labels and the positioning of items in display cases was found successful across all categories of employees. A team from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, led by Harvard University public health professor Douglas Levy, published a study of the program online in the American…

  • Most Hospitals in Collaborative Gain on Quality Measures

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey says its Aligning Forces for Quality initiative improved the quality of care for patients in measurable ways at hospitals in 16 communities in the U.S. The foundation released results from an evaluation of the program that aims to improve the quality of health care, reduce disparities,…

  • Study: Better Medical Device Security Alerts Needed

    Researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) uncovered indications that security and privacy problems with medical devices may not be adequately reported or tracked by regulators. The team reported its findings yesterday in the online journal PLoS One. The computer scientists and…

  • Report: Business Research Funding Decline Impacts Innovation

    A new report from the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation, says declines in business R&D investment over the past decade, particularly during the recession of 2008-2009, are taking a toll on American innovation. The report, Research & Development, Innovation, and the Science and Engineering Workforce, also notes that reductions…

  • Older Americans Experiencing Fewer Vision Problems

    Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago and University of California in San Francisco say American senior citizens today are having fewer vision impairment problems than older Americans in the 1980s. Northwestern’s Angelo Tanna, a professor of ophthalmology, and UCSF’s Stephen Kaye, a health statistician, report their findings online in the journal Ophthalmology (paid subscription required).…