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October 8, 2014

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Gainesville Sun
By Christopher Curry

The second year of Affordable Care Act enrollment starts in mid-November, and the navigators who help consumers sign up for health insurance coverage are gearing up to begin work.

Enrollment starts Nov. 15, and navigators will begin seeing residents interested in signing up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act on Nov. 3, said Lauren Vagelakos, the project coordinator for the nonprofit WellFlorida Council’s navigator program.

Like last year, the navigator program in Alachua County will be offered through several public […]

October 7, 2014

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The Florida Breast Cancer Foundation, North Central Florida Cancer Control Collaborative and Cancer Connections are hosting “Lunch and Learn—Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Current Practice and Future Promise.” The event is on October 29, 2014 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Hope Lodge in Gainesville. Continuing education credits will be provided by Suwannee River AHEC. Guest speaker Dr. Lisa Spiguel will focus on the surgical care of breast cancer, the assessment of high risk patients and overall breast health. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP […]

September 15, 2014

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Senior Times Magazine
by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, PhD

Feeling unmotivated, unfocused, or in a “fog”? Life in the Information Age makes these sensations more common than ever. Read on to learn the science behind “cerebral congestion” and how to refresh your mind.

Science is showing that there are three major reasons that our brains are getting tired from attention demands.

Reason 1: Too much mental activity and not enough down time. When we are attentive and completing tasks, our minds are functioning in the central executive mode. If we […]

September 9, 2014

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Health News Florida
By Carol Gentry

The University of South Florida has been awarded by far the largest grant in the state to hire “navigators” who help uninsured people sign up for health insurance coverage through the federal Marketplace, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.

Only two other Florida organizations won  navigator grants: the Epilepsy Foundation of Florida, $871,275, and the Pinellas County Commission, $535,156.

This year’s USF grant, of almost $5.4 million, is even larger than the $4.2 million USF received last year. The territory covered […]

September 4, 2014

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Dr. David Willis, chief medical information officer of Community HealthIT and Munroe Regional Medical Center and the medical director of Florida Health Center, will be a guest speaker at the upcoming HIMSS Rural Health IT Community webinar on September 8, 2014. Willis will address how rural healthcare providers are positioned to work collaboratively on projects that improve health information technology (HIT) in their communities. For example, in many cases, the social capital already exists in cooperative relationships, which can overcome rural setbacks such as […]

September 4, 2014

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North Florida School Days

Open Enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace opens on November 15, 2014 with coverage starting as early as January 1, 2015. If you are already enrolled in a plan through the Marketplace from the previous year, you have the opportunity to renew the same plan or pick a different plan for the upcoming year.

Before Open Enrollment begins again on November 15, it is possible to buy insurance through the Marketplace if you experience a qualifying life event such as marriage, divorce, […]

September 3, 2014

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The Veteran Initiated Electronic Care Coordination (VIECC) project at the North Florida/South Georgia VA Health Care System aims to improve care coordination of Veterans receiving healthcare from civilian providers. This project is part of a larger multi-site national pilot project that trains Veterans to use the VA’s Personal Health Record portal, My HealtheVet, to create a Continuity of Care Document (CCD) that can be shared with their civilian providers. The CCD is a summary of their VA health record and includes information such as medications, […]

August 28, 2014

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WellFlorida’s 15-county Ryan White region, Area 3/13, has the highest percentage of any region in Florida of persons living with HIV/AIDS who have suppressed (or undetectable) viral loads. An undetectable viral load means the amount of HIV virus in a person’s blood is so low that current laboratory tests are unable to detect it. It does NOT mean the person is cured—only that the tests are not sensitive enough to measure really low amounts of virus. The good news is that persons with undetectable viral loads […]

August 21, 2014

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Suwannee Democrat
By Joyce Marie Taylor

Members of the Strategic Health Planning Committee for Hamilton County met for a working lunch meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 12, with about 16 people from various agencies present, including Jeff Feller from Well Florida, Inc. The main objective of the meeting was to review the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) and determine if any changes needed to be made.

In attendance with Feller were Ida Daniels, Hamilton County Schools Food and Nutrition Service; Grace McDonald, Hamilton County Alcohol and Other Drug […]

August 18, 2014

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The 2nd Annual Health Information Summit on August 14, 2014 featured MyHealthStory, an electronic patient information and records sharing system for patients and healthcare providers, which was recently the topic of a Gainesville Sun article.

MyHealthStory is free to patients and healthcare facilities’ staff, and is only $25 per prescribing provider per month in ambulatory settings. Learn more about MyHealthStory at www.CommunityHealthIT.org.

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