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Provider Defined

Provider is a term used for health professionals who provide health care services. Sometimes, the term refers only to physicians. Often, however, the term also refers to other health care professionals such as hospitals, nurse practitioners, chiropractors, physical therapists, and others offering specialized health care services.

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Online health information sources: the changing face of medicine

Published December 4, 2008, 8:47 pm, vnunet.com

Bernice De Braal, Information World Review , Friday 5 December 2008 at 04:26:00 Does the swelling cabinet of online remedies threaten the career health of information professionals? The public has never had so many choices of health service provider. The NHS Patient Choice programme has given a wide range of places that patients can go to for treatment. Since April 2008, a ...

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Thieves Now Stealing Healthcare

Published December 4, 2008, 8:22 pm, KIAH-TV Houston

 We've all heard of identity theft, primarily used to access a person's financial and credit information. Now, thieves are going after your medical ID, which can compromise your credit and health. Doctor's offices and clinics like the Village Family Practice ask for photo IDs to make sure the health insurance card matches the person presenting it. It's a practice people like Michelle Mecom ...

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Bottom of the abyss

Published December 4, 2008, 8:05 pm, Mail and Guardian

The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. 'No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins -- and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.

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Martin retiring as Crisp Regional head

Published December 4, 2008, 8:01 pm, Cordele Dispatch

CORDELE — Jim Martin, chief executive of Crisp Regional Health Services, will retire at the end of the year, he told the Dispatch Thursday.

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Bacteria found in Post Falls drinking water

Published December 4, 2008, 7:32 pm, KREM.com Spokane

POST FALLS, Idaho -- The Post Falls Water Department is on high alert after tests detected coliform bacteria in six water samples. “This is not an emergency. Total coliform bacteria are generally not harmful,” says Terry Werner, Public Works Director.

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Genetic testing for breast cancer: Psychological and social impact

Published December 4, 2008, 7:08 pm, Mayo Clinic

Genetic testing to estimate breast and ovarian cancer risk may elicit many emotional and psychological reactions. How will getting the news that you've tested positive or negative affect you?

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Mo. company backs out of Rehab Hospital deal

Published December 4, 2008, 6:55 pm, The Woonsocket Call

NORTH SMITHFIELD — A transaction to convert ownership of the Landmark Medical Center-owned Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island on Eddie Dowling Highway to a Missouri-based company that provides physical rehabilitation program management services has collapsed after the company withdrew from the deal on Thursday.

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Woman at Center of Anorexia Lawsuit Against Horizon Talks to WPIX

Published December 4, 2008, 6:06 pm, WPIX 11 New York

FAIRHAVEN, N.J. - A week after the largest health insurance provider in New Jersey agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by parents of children suffering from anorexia, one of the women involved in the case is speaking out in a WPIX Exclusive. Lara Drazin says she started starving herself to death at the age of 14. Now 18, Drazin says at one time she did lose hope on recovering. ...

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Health plan ignites debate

Published December 4, 2008, 5:35 pm, The Bona Venture

The St. Bonaventure University health insurance options available to faculty and staff effective January 2009 have many university employees struggling to swallow the increase in insurance costs and the administration's lack of communication. "The new health insurance plan is not going to break me, and I won't be as hurt as a lot of people, but I fear people will choose to not get health ...

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Government hopes to lure doctors, nurses by paying student loans

Published December 4, 2008, 5:12 pm, 9 News Denver

BRIGHTON - Dr. Kelly McMullen went into medicine after seeing how people in Ecuador live without any physicians nearby. Now, she sees the same problem in rural America.

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