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NHSC Offers Loan Repayment Money For Primary Care Providers In Alabama
More than 3,300 primary care providers nationwide will be eligible for approximately $200

Over Half Of UK Believes A Pandemic Outbreak Could Be Realised, Says Survey By 21C
More than half of the UK population feels that a breakdown in communications between healthcare agencies would allow a pandemic outbreak such as swine flu to spread unnecessarily and slow the effective distribution of vaccines, according to a survey by specialist healthcare technology consultants, 21C.
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E-health Enables More Personalized Medicine; Group Fights For Digital Patient Rights
Tonia Odom, a 35-year-old patient with rheumatoid arthritis, a sick father and a young son, each of whom has multiple health problems, has found some relief to the problems of managing her families" array of illnesses in at a Duke University clinic that"s a model of the "medical home" approach to medicine, the New York Times reports. "As President Obama and Congress try to create a national system that provides better care for more people at lower cost, you are likely to hear a lot more about this idea. The term, coined by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1967, is admittedly confusing. It does not mean a return to house calls. Nor need it apply only to people with complex health problems like those of the Odom family."
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AMA Urges Government To Slash GP Red Tape, Australia

Slashing red tape would allow Australia"s General Practitioners to spend more time caring for patients, AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today. Dr Pesce said GPs were spending up to a quarter of their working hours completing paperwork and dealing with bureaucracy. "For every hour a GP spends doing paperwork, around four patients miss out on seeing a doctor," he said. "There are a number of simple measures Government could implement which would free up GPs to spend more time with patients. "These include scrapping the requirement for GPs to seek approval from Medicare Australia every time they need to prescribe certain drugs under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for a patient." Since 2007, doctors have been permitted to prescribe 200 PBS listed Authority medications without approval from Medicare Australia. There has been no appreciable change in prescribing trends for these medicines. "This demonstrates that GPs are adhering to PBS prescribing requirements. Requiring GPs to ring up for prescribing approval numbers is a waste of time for doctors, patients and Government officials," Dr Pesce said. Dr Pesce also called for a reduction in the amount of paperwork GPs needed to complete to comply with a range of programs. "GPs are frustrated that Governments have ignored successive reports recommending that GP red tape should be slashed. It is now time to get on with this task and stop wasting time that GPs could be spending with patients," he said. Australian Medical Association


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