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Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

And the Winner Is...

See how human-centered designers answered our challenge to encourage more people to complete advance directives and document their end-of-life wishes.

Ready or Not

Even with new federal resources to help, a study finds that communities with weaker safety-net systems are lagging in preparations for health reform.

Standard & Poor's Expresses Concern Over California Budget

Rating agency Standard & Poor's is raising concerns about the fiscal implications of lower-than-expected April tax revenues and a ruling that the state controller cannot withhold lawmakers' pay based on budget quality. Sacramento Bee's "Capitol Alert."

Reforms Slow for OPS Investigations of Patient Abuse at State Facilities

Reforms to improve patient abuse investigations are being enacted slowly at the Office of Protective Services, which monitors California's board-and-care institutions for patients with development disabilities. Efforts to retrain OPS staff might not start for months. California Watch.

GOP Report: Employers Would Save Money by Dropping Coverage

A report by House Republicans contends that the largest U.S. companies could save billions of dollars by dropping coverage and shifting workers into the federal health reform law's insurance exchanges. Democrats called the report's predictions "cynical." The Hill's "Healthwatch" et al.

Misuse of Prescription Painkillers Becoming More Widespread Among Young Californians

Tom Lenox of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michael Plopper of Sharp HealthCare Behavioral Health Services, Sherrie Rubin of the not-for-profit organization HOPE and Robert Wailes of the California Medical Association's board of trustees spoke with California Healthline about prescription drug misuse.

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