Recently, Senate President Murray hosted a conference on health care information systems. A highlight of the conference was a talk by Dr. Mike Wong about the Ebola epidemic and the information we have about it. Here is the very detailed PowerPoint from Dr. Wong’s talk, which gives a lot of background on the epidemic and many glimmers of hope for a cure or for vaccines.
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Bridgewater State Hospital
It’s tragically difficult to treat patients who are at once (a) truly dangerous and (b) badly in need of mental health care. Hearings on the Governor’s proposed legislation have raised real dilemmas: good legislation on the subject will take some time.
Bill to Assist with Autism
From the Senate President’s office: the Senate on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill to expand treatment and support for individuals with autism or a developmental disability across the Commonwealth.
Gaps in Health Care for Elderly
Hi Will, I believe we need to have the state legislators begin discussing home health care for elderly who have some or limited assets that they would like to hold onto. Many elderly wish to stay in their homes and our current insurers do not provide more than 6 hours per week when they often …
MA Failed Insurance Website
I am astonished at the ineptitude of our state government, in implementing the ACA! Since we already had a working website, I assumed that, with a few tweeks, MA would be in great shape for the ACA (especially in a state with so much technological sophistication). But NO: after totally messing up the first attempt, …
Expired Pharmaceutical Disposal
Without checking, I tried to drop off some expired prescription drugs at my health plan pharmacy for disposal and found, to my surprise, that they would not take them. It was suggested that I check with my town hall. Checking the Belmont web site, I saw that there was a 24 hour drop box at …