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For Medicare, Immigrants Offer Surplus, Study Finds

Sabrina Tavernise | New York Times | May 29, 2013

Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern that goes against the notion that immigrants are a drain on federal health care spending. Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Free Papers Have Reached A Tipping Point, Study Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser | Science | August 20, 2013

Efforts to give the public free access to peer-reviewed papers have reached a milestone: One-half of all papers are now freely available within a year or two of publication, concludes a study funded by the European Commission and released today. [...] Read More »

Interns spend More Time With Computers Than Patients: Study

Rachel Landen | ModernPhysician.com | April 26, 2013

The time medical interns spend interacting with patients continues to drop, taking up only 12% of their working hours, according to a study at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland Medical Center. Read More »

Latest “Red Meat Study” Doubly Flawed

Staff Writer | Designs For Health | April 17, 2013

No, meat is not unsafe—nor is L-carnitine.A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine associates the amino acid L-carnitine, found in red meat, supplements, and sports supplements, with the risk of heart disease. Read More »

Long-Term Marijuana Use Might Kill Motivation From Lower Dopamine

Kathleen Blanchard | Digital Journal | July 1, 2013

Researchers at the Imperial College London, UCL and King’s College London have found long-term cannabis users have lower levels of the chemical dopamine in the brain that is necessary for motivation. [...] Read More »

Prosthetic Hand With Feeling: Re-Creating The Brain-Hand Connection

Melissa Healy | Los Angeles Times | February 5, 2014

The human hand is a wonder of strength, sensitivity and discrimination — not only because of those four fingers and the opposable thumb, but also because of the human brain that controls it. No wonder, then, that for those who design hand prostheses, re-creating the natural dexterity of the brain-powered hand is a daunting challenge. Read More »

Smaller Hospitals Ditch EHRs--But Still Not Happy

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | December 19, 2012

External pressure is forcing small hospitals to transition to different electronic health records systems, according to a new brief from KLAS Research. Read More »

Some In Canada Longing For ONC-Esque Policies, Researcher Says

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | August 28, 2012

The conclusion of a recent study on Canadian and U.S. health IT policy might’ve come from the department of obvious: “successful health information exchange depends on policies that set clear goals and outline intended effects of HIT implementation without being overly prescriptive, and defines frameworks for guiding policy improvement in a continual and systematic manner,” the authors wrote in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Read More »

The Unfulfilled Promises Of Health Information Technology

Juergen Fritsch | Computerworld | February 27, 2013

[...] Realizing that the cost savings and improvements in healthcare delivery are nowhere near what was optimistically predicted in 2005, RAND recently commissioned a new study to take a fresh new look at the state of health information technology.  The new study paints a very different picture... Read More »

Troops With Traumatic Brain Injury Show Symptoms 5 Years Later

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | July 3, 2013

A high proportion of the 273,859 troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continued to experience “significant symptoms and problems” five years after injury, the Pentagon said in its first take on a 15-year TBI study mandated by Congress. Read More »

U.S. Paid Extra $13 Billion for Some Veterans' Care: Study

Andrew M. Seaman | Reuters | June 26, 2012

The U.S. government paid billions of dollars for the medical care of some older veterans twice, according to a new study published on Tuesday. Read More »

VA Patients Ready to Share E-Records, Says Study

Catherine Zaw | Stanford Daily | January 9, 2012

A School of Medicine study found that 80 percent of surveyed Veterans Affairs (VA) patients are interested in sharing their health records electronically with family members, caregivers and outside providers in order to improve their care. Read More »

Why Behavior Change Apps Fail To Change Behavior

Nir Eyal | TechCrunch | July 13, 2013

The “but you are free” technique demonstrates how we are more likely to be persuaded when our ability to choose is reaffirmed. [...] Though the research did not directly look at how products and services might use the technique, the study provides several practical insights for how companies can influence customer behavior. Read More »