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Daily Report: Health and Welfare

More community clinics switching to electronic health records

September 21, 2012, 12:05 AM

Community clinics are turning technologically savvy. Spurred on by federal funds, they are adopting electronic health records at rates exceeded only by HMOs. Community health centers once had the lowest rate of electronic health record use. Only 8 percent had them in place in 2006. Today,... + read more

Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Money and Politics

Report: Major cities not prepared for growing retiree health costs

August 10, 2012, 12:05 AM

Most major California cities are failing to address the growing health care costs of government retirees, which have ballooned to more than $1 billion in some areas and soon could threaten municipalities' ability to pay other expenses, according to a recent financial analysis by a nonprofit... + read more

Daily Report: Money and Politics

As tobacco sales fall, state budget suffers

February 20, 2012, 12:05 AM

Fewer smokers is bad news for California’s budget. A major bond rating agency sounded an alarm this month, saying the state may have borrowed more than $4 billion against settlement money that might never materialize. A little more than a decade ago, 46 state attorneys general reached a... + read more

MORE ON: health care costs

More community clinics switching to electronic health records

Report: Major cities not prepared for growing retiree health costs

As tobacco sales fall, state budget suffers

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