A health information technology project may revolutionize how health care is managed by using medical records to coordinate patients' records.
(Daily Report) Nov 19, 2009
Some say moving kids from the Children's Health Insurance Program to health exchanges would add stability, but others fear they could lose benefits and their families could face higher co-payments for coverage.
(Story) Nov 18, 2009
A study sponsored by the United Health Foundation and other groups says 43 percent of Americans could be obese by 2018, costing $344 billion annually.
(Daily Report) Nov 18, 2009
Some say moving kids from the Children's Health Insurance Program to health exchanges would add stability, but others fear they could lose benefits and their families could face higher co-payments for coverage.
(Daily Report) Nov 18, 2009
States consider how health legislation on Capitol Hill might affect their Medicaid programs and budgets.
(Daily Report) Nov 18, 2009
Health reform is scrambling local politicians in Louisiana. Meanwhile, Washington State and Kansas are working to get residents out of, and into, state-run insurance programs.
(Daily Report) Nov 17, 2009
NPR reports on a town in Wisconsin with the highest rates of living wills in the country.
(Daily Report) Nov 17, 2009
Activists met Monday with a top White House aide in Jackson, Miss., to call for more federal funds to help fight AIDS in the South.
(Daily Report) Nov 17, 2009
The bills pending in Congress could alter some restrictions on insurers and channel money to state health programs.
(Daily Report) Nov 16, 2009
News outlets report on a variety of state health issues including the upcoming launch of a Medicaid data project in Florida, health care changes that could reduce spending in Georgia and a model for reform in Vermont.
(Daily Report) Nov 16, 2009