Latest California Healthline Stories
Hearing Targets Foster Kids’ Medication
Foster children are prescribed psychotropic medications at a higher rate than other kids, and lawmakers convened to find out what’s being done about it.
California’s Precision Medicine Initiative Targets Hard-To-Diagnose Diseases
Gov. Brown, UC-San Francisco researcher Esteban Burchard, UCSF researcher Atul Butte, UCSF infectious disease specialist Charles Chiu and patient family member Julie Osborn of Wisconsin spoke with California Healthline about California’s initiative to boost precision medicine research to help prevent and treat the root cause of illnesses such as encephalitis and sepsis, which sometimes can be difficult to diagnose.
Survey: Doctors Wary of Quality Metrics
Half of primary care physicians have a negative view of quality-of-care metrics, and they worry that those measures could compromise care, a new survey says.
What’s Behind the Committee Door?
In the scrum of Sacramento politics and influence, some controversial bills are buried into the ground at the committee level. But recently, in a neat political power play, a few given-up-for-dead anti-tobacco bills pulled a little end-around.
Duals Allowed To Designate an Assistant
State health officials have established a process allowing dual eligibles to designate a friend or relative to make decisions about enrollment choices.
Clinton Meets With Home Care Workers
Home care providers and consumers gathered in Los Angeles yesterday to meet with Hillary Clinton in a roundtable format.
Medicaid Recipients Continue to Use ED for Dental Work, Even With Coverage
Medicaid beneficiaries with dental coverage still go to hospital emergency departments for dental work — in part because access to dental services depends on the availability of enough willing providers of care, authors of a new study say.
IBM Hopes CVS-Watson Partnership Leads to More Connections in Cloud
IBM officials hope a new partnership with CVS pharmacies will create a platform in the Watson Health Cloud to allow many organizations and agencies to collaborate with the goal of eventually improving the country’s health care delivery system.
Oscar Wants To ‘Revolutionize’ Health Care. But Will It Even Survive Covered California?
Oscar, the buzzed-about health insurance startup, will join Covered California this year. Can it deliver on its hype, or will it get lost in the crowd?
Telehealth Niche for Special-Needs Kids
Better care for the 1.4 million children in California with special needs could come through telehealth, according to a new report.