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September 27, 2012 -- According to officials from the Centers for Disease Control the country is seeing double the number of pertussis cases than we experienced last year and the total number is rising to levels not seen since 1959.

Courtesy of Pac/West Health Care Media Report. Originally published in the The Washington Post News Service with Bloomberg News

September 26, 2012 -- The new coordinated care organizations provide enormous opportunities to further the state’s public health agenda, but the new organizations are more likely to be successful in counties with strong existing public health departments, the state’s top public health officer told The Lund Report.

OPINION – September 25, 2012 -- Back in 2008, when searching to find an estimate of the magnitude of health information technology workforce (HIT) needs, I came up empty-handed, which led me to try to answer the question myself. The best source of data I was able to find was the HIMSS Analytics Database.

Sept. 20, 2012 -- Judging by their bills, it would appear that elderly patients treated in the emergency room at Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas, are among the sickest in the country — far sicker than patients at most other hospitals.