Webhealth
Webhealth has been specifically developed to provide access for people to
connect with Health and Social Services. This web-based approach builds on
the strengths of people and families to determine their support needs. Within the Webhealth website is Linkage. Linkage is a
partnership between an NGO, Pathways; primary health care, Pinnacle; and a
secondary provider/hospital, Health Waikato. It offers early intervention
services with a “one stop shop” in central Hamilton and New Plymouth.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Page at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured that provides links to two new reports - "One new publication reports on findings from an October 26 discussion with state Medicaid officials on the implications of a Medicare drug benefit for states and dual eligibles. The other report provides state-level estimates on spending on dual eligibles and illustrates the effects of scenarios where the federal government assumes the cost of prescription drugs, Medicare premiums, acute care, and long-term care for this population." The reports are available in Adobe Acrobat format - Coordinating Medicaid and Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage and Shifting the Cost of Dual Eligibles: Implications for States and the Federal Government.
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Portland Press Herald story reprinted at PsycPORT - " A man arrested on a firearms charge outside the Bush family estate last year cannot be forced to take medication to make him mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge in Portland has ruled. The case is the first in Maine and one of the first in the country to rely on a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that is winning praise from mental health advocates while also raising new issues for the legal system. Last week's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Gene Carter says that even though Theodore Miller has been found mentally incompetent, he still has a constitutional right to refuse to be medicated against his will."
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Doctor's Guide article - "Haloperidol may exacerbate the shrinking of the brain that scientists are beginning to link with schizophrenia. Findings of a multi-center study comparing first- and second-generation treatment for schizophrenia were announced here November 9th at the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting."
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