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  • New Interactive Tobacco Map Launched (03/11/2010)

    An interactive map from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will give policy-makers and advocates a nationwide picture of continuing state efforts on key tobacco control.  The “map” is actually three distinct maps, each focusing on a different aspect of tobacco policy: state-by-state breakdowns on smoke-free laws, cigarette tax rates and total tobacco control spending. [Read article]

  • Wisconsin’s Air Dirtiest in Nation (03/11/2010)

    It's not something to be proud of: Wisconsin had the most unsafe air in the country yesterday.  [Read article]

  • CPR Class Could Be Required At High Schools (03/11/2010)

    New legislation (AB 725) being considered at the capitol would require schools to offer high school students instruction in performing cardiopulmonary and cardio-cerebral resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator.  [Read article]

  • Medical Care Vanishing In Rural Wisconsin (03/10/2010)

    Many hospitals in the state are forced to cut services.  [Read article]

  • I'm Just an Ambulance Driver Podcast Series (03/09/2010)

    Tune in monthly for relevant topics to EMS and the input of EMS providers and administrators alike.  Hosted by EMSARN (Emergency Medical Service Agency Research Network for Quality & Safety Improvement).  [Listen]

  • Marketing Your Volunteer Fire or Ambulance Department (03/09/2010)

    Rural America relies heavily on volunteer fire and ambulance departments. With little to no tax base in these areas, it is difficult or impossible to generate the necessary funds to properly finance an emergency services organization. Rural communities have little choice but to form their own organizations, financed by local donations, spaghetti dinners, rib feeds, pancake breakfasts, and whatever other creative effort to raise a dollar comes to mind.  [Read article]

  • Wisconsin Relay of Electronic Data (WIRED) for Health (03/09/2010)

    The goal of the WIRED for Health project is to build substantial health information exchange capacity statewide to support providers' meaningful use of electronic health records and enable efficient, appropriate, and secure flow of information to optimize decisions for health. The approach is to plan, develop, and implement interoperable, standards-based, secure electronic exchange of patient and health data.  [Website; Board members]

  • Hospital CEOs Testify at CAH Assessment Legislative Hearing (03/09/2010)

    The Rural Healthcare Access Act, (AB 770 / SB 553), which would strengthen rural health through a new assessment on critical access hospitals, took a step forward when the Assembly Rural Economic Development Committee passed AB 770 on a 7-2-1 bipartisan vote. The vote came just two days after a hearing on the bill.  [Read article]

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