Comments on Health Policy Commission ACO Appeal Regulations

5/25/2018

, the definition of which includes patients receiving emergency services and patients at the end of life. For some …

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Comments on Health Policy Commission ACO Appeal Regulations

5/25/2018

, the definition of which includes patients receiving emergency services and patients at the end of life. For some …

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Physicians targeted by scammers: How to stay safe

5/18/2018

is best known by the brand name Suboxone.  House passes life science bill The bill (H 4501) provides about … $463 million in new capital authorizations for the state Life Sciences Capital Fund, with an emphasis … on capital grants to increase diversity and opportunity in the Massachusetts life sciences and biotech …

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Shared Decision Making: Essential Skills for Prostate, Lung & Breast Cancer Screening

5/17/2018

4294981842 For patients, making decisions about getting screening tests for cancer involves weighing the benefits of early cancer detection and the possible harms.  The benefit is reduced risk of death from the cancer. Harms include over-diagnosis with associated over-treatment, the adverse effects of unnecessar

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OMSS Activities Updates 2018

5/10/2018

: 1. Recognition of Out of State DNR / Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Forms 2 …. Providing for Prescription Drug Donation 6. Proposal to End the Federal Certification of EHRs Programs 7 …

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The Evolution of Death: Bioethicists’ Ongoing Effort to Define End of Life

5/1/2018

The Evolution of Death: Bioethicists’ Ongoing Effort to Define End of Life … — including how our life and death will be defined. Implications of Technology The definition of death …. Two converging technological advances — ventilators/life support and organ donation — challenged this …

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Vital Signs May 2018 (pdf)

4/30/2018

with Serious Illness How can patients and their loved ones navigate serious illness and the end of life … It is one of the greatest honors of my professional life to address you, friends and colleagues, in my … relation- ship with a patient ends for one of several reasons: the patient seems unable to follow …

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Free financial wellness workshops for physicians

4/27/2018

Administration and several federal, state and local authorities in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine ended … a statewide commitment to quality of life.   Hospitals look to merge to compete with Partners Some …

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Committee on Public Health - April 5, 2018

4/5/2018

Attendance Heather Alker, MD Nicolas Argy, MD, JD Sanjay Aurora, MD, MPH Julia Benedetti, MD Sophia Bogdasarian James Broadhurst, MD Catherine Brown, DVM John Burress, MD, MPH, vice chair Adepeju Champion, MD David Crandell, MD Alfred DeMaria, MD Anand Habib Michael Hirsh, MD Louis Fa

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Committee on Preparedness - February 13, 2018

4/4/2018

Attendees Eric Goralnick, MD, Chair Christopher E. Barsotti, MD (by telephone) Paul D. Biddinger, MD (by telephone) Catherine M. Brown, DVM, MSc, MPH Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD Christina H. Hernon, MD John J. Looney, MD Kevin M. Ryan, MD Frederick J. Stoddard, Jr., MD  Brian Tashjian Daniel Willner,

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