See Clearly - It Is Healthy Vision Month

Updated April 29, 2024

Some of the original links broke.

You can still read about the same topic here:

Healthy People 2010 - Progress Review Focus Area 28 – Vision and Hearing Presentation - CDC

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May is Healthy Vision Month, a national eye health observance devoted to promoting the vision objectives in Healthy People 2010. The focus for this year is Healthy People Vision Objective 28-3: Reduce uncorrected visual impairment due to refractive errors. The goal of Healthy Vision Month 2009 is to promote the importance of getting eye exams. Learn more about Healthy Vision 2010. Bottomline, it's important to get your eyes checked. Especially if you're not seeing clearly. For more reading about other things you can do to protect your vision, read this Medical News Today post, "Top 10 Tips To Save Your Vision." 

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Accelerating the Use of Electronic Prescribing to Improve Health Care

Updated July 9, 2020

The original post didn't age well.

You might also be interested in this journal article from about the same timeframe, 2009:

Interoperable Electronic Prescribing In The United States: A Progress Report
The adoption of e-prescribing has started to accelerate, but its use is not yet as widespread as policymakers want it to be. (Health Affairs)

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How appropriate for October, which is National Pharmacy Month! There's an effort to help the U.S. health care system transition from a largely paper-based system of prescribing to electronic prescribing, in order to support more effective medication management. The eHealth Initiative in collaboration with the Center for Improving Medication Management, offers a series of guides and reports have been issued over the last several months to support the effective adoption of e-prescribing to drive improvements in the quality, safety and effectiveness of health care:

1. Electronic Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream Practice
2. A Clinician's Guide to Electronic Prescribing
3. A Consumer's Guide to Electronic Prescribing
4. A Guide for Health Care Payers to Improve the Medication Management Process

Related News:
CMS-eRX: Officials Lay Out Cost-Benefit Analysis of E-Prescribing Bonuses
Confab pushes ‘e-prescribing’

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September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

President Bush just proclaimed it. Join the voices of recovery, during September, the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month (check out this HHS website). There are a number of great resources available to you . . .

1. Recovery Month Kit
2. The Road to Recovery 2008 Public Service Announcements
3. Webcasts
4. . . . and so much more!

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