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Managed Care June 2004 Jack McCain	P&T Committees in Position To Reduce Medication Errors Pharmacy & Therapeutics Society works with Institute of Medicine and Leapfrog Group to improve processes.
Managed Care June 2004 Tony Berberabe	Welcome to the Brave, New (Electronic) World, Doctor WellPoint is providing free handheld or even desktop computers in an effort toward minimizing medication errors. Will docs finally abandon pen and pad?
Managed Care June 2004	Bush Launches 10-Year-Effort To Create National EMR System The Bush administration is plowing toward a goal long sought by health plans and long-resisted by physicians: putting every patient's health history on electronic medical records.
Managed Care June 2004	90 Million Left In Dark About Medical Info The rush to create consumer-directed health plans might not go as far as some hope, based on findings in a recent study by the Institute of Medicine.
Managed Care June 2004 Michael S. Victoroff	One Hospital's Dubious Approach To Reducing Uncompensated Care When uninsured immigrants fail to pay their bills, the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., might just report them to the Department of Homeland Security.
Managed Care June 2004	Providers Retain Upper Hand Over Health Plans Hospitals in recent years have been successful in getting higher rates, decreasing their exposure to risk and obtaining other advantageous contract provisions from health plans, according to a new study.
Managed Care June 2004	Use of Attention-Deficit Medications Surges 369 Percent in Children Under 5 ADHD medication spending for pediatric patients outpaces antibiotics, allergy, and asthma treatments.
Managed Care June 2004 Thomas Morrow	Laronidase Opens Door To Treat Other Rare Disorders The release of alpha-L-iduronidase also demonstrates the wave of future treatments for many other mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) diseases.
Wired July 2004 Chris Mooney	Cocktail Hour Get ready for high-speed pharmbots that mix and match drugs and doses by the millions.
Technology Research News June 30, 2004	Nanotubes boost neuron growth The method is a step toward neuron-electronic interfaces that would allow for direct biological control of computers and prosthetic devices.
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