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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the policy focus has the potential to secure a healthier economy, healthier communities, and a healthier future for all.”

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Defanging HIPAA: How Your De-identified Data Was Re-identified For Profit.

The Health Care Blog

But its commercial worth quickly became evident resulting in a sale to GE Health in 2002, becoming their “must-have” MQIC database. The doctors were assured that the data housed in their proprietary medical record system was de-identified and intended for altruistic purposes.

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Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)

The Health Care Blog

A significantly large number of health policy people in settings like MedPac carefully avoid mentioning, discussing or even considering those additional benefits and those direct member savings because, they say, those benefits in Medicare Advantage happen for individual people. Part 2 coming soon).

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Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part two)

The Health Care Blog

George Halvorson is Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14.

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Medicare Advantage Saves Lives, Limbs, Sight, And Major Amounts of Money – (Part 1)

The Health Care Blog

Part 2 coming soon) George Halvorson is Chair of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14. Plans do the right thing to keep people from needing emergency room care, and they do it very consistently by providing better direct care.

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Truth and Trust in Science: Are They Negotiable?

The Health Care Blog

This was two years after the close of the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic with 8,469 cases and an 11% case fatality, and six years before MERS jumped from Egyptian camels to humans, infecting over 2,500 humans with a kill rate of 35% (858 known deaths.).

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Kamala will Win The Popular Vote And No One Is Pointing That Absolutely Certainty Out In The Popular Media 

The Health Care Blog

George Halvorson is Chair and CEO of the Institute for InterGroup Understanding and was CEO of Kaiser Permanente from 2002-14 The news media should be ready for that massive electoral vote difference because we know now that those numbers are absolutely going to happen.