Top U.S. States Where Doctors Go Digital - According to a Bloomberg.com article on June 25th, 2013: What's your family's health history? Imagine not having to recount any of that. That's one benefit of electronic medical records. Depending where you live in the U.S., your medical records may still be stuck in the 20th century. In 2012, 29.7 percent of South Carolina's office-based doctors used basic electronic medical records. That's lower than the national average of 39.6 percent. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE
Southern states have too few dentists for residents, Pew study finds - According to the Post and Courier on June 28th, 2013: Several Southern states have some of the most severe dentist shortages in the country. Tony Keck, director of South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, said South Carolina’s Medicaid program doesn’t face the same financial problems plaguing Louisiana. Mississippi ranked at the top of the list with 36.3 percent of its population underserved by dentists, and Louisiana and Alabama tied for second at 24.4 percent. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE
Perspective: Envy-A Strategy for Reform - According to a perspective written by Drs. Nick Seddon and Thomas Lee in The New England Journal of Medicine on June 13, 2013, they believe that envy has an appropriate place in health policy, if in this case it means health systems struggling to address specific weaknesses by identifying strengths in other systems that they could emulate. For starters, the United States should envy the United Kingdom's commitment to universal access to health care, not because it suggests moral superiority but because it confers a strategic advantage. Character traits may be hard to change, but the English could do with a bit of American optimism, whereas the Americans would benefit from a bit of English stoicism.TO READ MORE CLICK HERE
