Health Wonk Review #13 @ The Health Care Blog

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Health Wonk Review lucky issue #13 is being hosted over at The Health Care Blog.

So what is the Health Wonk Review?...

Health Wonk Review is a biweekly compendium of the best of the health policy blogs. More than two dozen health policy, infrastructure, insurance, technology, and managed care bloggers participate by contributing their best recent blog postings to a roving digest, with each issue hosted at a different participant's blog. For participants, it's a way to network and share ideas, and for those readers who don't live in this space every day, it's a way to sample some of the latest thinking and the "best of the best."

This issue of HWR features topics on:

• US employers are sending their employees to India for expensive procedures
• Issues with recently proposed Medicare reimbursement cuts
• A report from a couple of conferences that suggest that blogs and social media will transform health care, much like news, politics and entertainment
• An article on how the NHS (Britain’s National Health Service) is basically granting access to advanced medical treatments via a lottery
• An article on the true state of Cuba's state-run healthcare system
• An article on waiting lists for health services in Canada
• A rant by a physician regarding Medicare's decision to not send out payments for services for the last 9 days of September 2006
• A couple of articles on Pay for Performance and Medicare
• A report on a study that says that anesthesia-related adverse events are four times as likely to occur when surgery starts at 4 pm compared to 9 am.
• An article on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ( JCAHO )
• An article on how drinking good water is good for you.
• A report on a new Senate bill that would amend the Public Health Act and Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to establish a competitive grant program to support activities that would improve the health and wellness of individuals with disabilities
• A report suggesting that the Democrats are making Part D “reform” into a major theme of the 2006 elections
• A report on the British fake Lipitor scandal and the issue of importing cheaper drugs into the US
• An interesting report on factors that influence longevity
• A report on a survey for health care bloggers

Head on over to The Health Care Blog to read the full, hyperlinked version.