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		<title>It&#8217;s About my Child&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare Advocates work with people of all ages.  While Healthcare Liaison does work with seniors, we also provide services to infants and children and their families, young adults, and middle-aged adults:  everyone needs help with healthcare!   It&#8217;s not just about insurance, although that is confusing enough in itself:  it&#8217;s about the complex decisions that arise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/07/27/its-about-my-child/</link>
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		<title>Is My Mother Dying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had answered my phone and was speaking with an adult daughter who was exhausted from taking care of her 89 year old Mother.  She told me her Mother had fallen several times at home that week and had refused to go to the doctor. The daughter was frantic.  What was wrong? Was her Mother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/07/20/is-my-mother-dying/</link>
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		<title>It’s Going to be a Wonderful Conference…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to announce that  the 2nd Annual Meeting of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants (NAHAC) is fully organized and scheduled for Washington DC, November 4-6 2010! Everyone&#8211;Healthcare Advocates,  Consumers (that&#8217;s all of us who receive health care!)  policy makers and legislators&#8212;are welcome to attend the three-day gathering of this professional association.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/07/13/its-going-to-be-a-wonderful-conference/</link>
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		<title>What is a Healthcare Advocate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In  this newly emerging field of healthcare advocacy, what is it that a Healthcare Advocate does?  How can they assist you? The short answer is:  An Advocate can help you navigate through complex medical situations for yourself, your child, your parent or other family member.  But still, what does that mean? As I currently see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/07/06/what-is-a-healthcare-advocate/</link>
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		<title>About Those Hospital-Acquqired Infections&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has much talk of late about the risk of acquiring an infection while you are a patient in the hospital, so-called &#8220;nosocomial&#8221; infections or &#8220;hospital-acquired infections&#8221;.  These are differentiated from those acquired outside the hospital:  these are known as &#8220;community-acquired infections&#8221;. Over the more recent years, major attempts at educating healthcare providers in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/30/about-those-hospital-acquqired-infections/</link>
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		<title>I&#8221;m Not a Patient:  I&#8217;m a Consumer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost entitled this &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Call Me a Patient&#8221; until I realized this is not something we ask politely for anymore:  this is the new world of the empowered consumer as a self&#8217;-made advocate! In the &#8220;old world&#8221; of medicine, people seeking care were patients.  The origin of &#8220;patients&#8221; is from the Latin for  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/22/im-not-a-patient-im-a-consumer/</link>
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		<title>Medical Lingo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I teach workshops around the country for people interested in the field of healthcare advocacy, either in becoming an advocate for others or learning how to advocate for oneself.  Because there are a mix of medical professionals and consumers in these workshops, I need to be sure that I refrain from using &#8220;medical lingo&#8221; so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/16/medical-lingo/</link>
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		<title>23 and Me&#8211;and You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s newspaper was an item about &#8220;spit parties&#8221; where participants gather together to give saliva samples that can undergo genetic analysis.  There is a company in California that does this kind of testing&#8211;the company name is &#8220;23 and me&#8221;&#8211;and it&#8217;s moniker is &#8220;genetics just got personal&#8221;.  The company name, according to their web site, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/11/23-and-me-and-you/</link>
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		<title>Electronic Medical Records:  Who Benefits?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for the Xerox Corporation, Healthcare IT News reports about half of Americans support the switch to electronic health records, but felt that patients themselves  have  the least to gain from EHR adoption.&#8221; This is very curious!  While EMRs will make billing easier for providers, one of the big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/10/electronic-medical-records-who-benefits/</link>
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		<title>A Sea Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reported today in the California Healthcare Foundation&#8217;s iHealth Beat: &#8220;Three hospitals, 100 primary care physicians and 25,000 patients will participate in a yearlong pilot project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio to evaluate the impact of giving patients online access to doctors&#8217; encounter notes.&#8221; As found in:HealthLeaders Media. What a change! From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareliaison.com/blog/2010/06/09/a-sea-change/</link>
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