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2007
 

Health Care Information Technology

Prevention

Primary Care Physician Shortage

Protection of Patients' Access to Physicians

 

 

2006
 

Implementing Electronic Medical Records

Ensuring the Privacy of Prescription Information

Sustainability of Vermont Blueprint for Health

Restrictive Covenants in Physician Employment Contracts

 

 


2005
 

Principles for the Development of Pay-for-Performance Programs

Establishing Pre-Trial Screening Panels for Medical Liability Claims

Establishing the Dr. Mildred Reardon Scholarship

The Improvement of Vermont's Health Care System

Fluoridation in Community Water Systems

 

   

 

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2004
 

Resolution to Endorse Health-Promoting Activity and Healthy Foods in Vermont Schools

Advocating for Change in the Relative Update Committee of the American Medical Association

Enactment of National Medical Liability Reform

Prompt and Adequate Medicaid Reimbursement

Pain Treatment and Assessment

Repeal of Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate
Reimbursement Formula

Reducing the Secondary Effects of Cigarettes

Physician Reimbursement Under Vermont's Workers' Compensation Medical Fee Schedule

 

2003
 
Preventing Childhood Obesity

Domestic Violence as a Health Care Concern

Improvement of Vermont's Health Care System

Medicaid Reimbursement

Development & Implementation of a Medical Information System

Medicare Reimbursement

Vermont Physicians Confronting the Opioid Challenge Facing Vermonters

Prescribing Authority for Optometrists

Licensing Respiratory Care Practitioners

Waiving VMS Membership Dues Voting Procedures

 

Physician-Assisted Suicide

Memorial Resolution
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Joseph B. Warshaw, M.D.

   


2002

Medical Use of Marijuana
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Cannabis Research
Reducing Childhood Obesity Medicaid Reimbursement
Medical Cannabis Use and Study

Moratorium on the Death Penalty

 

Treatment Availability for Opioid Dependence

Prescribing Authority for Optometrists

Patient Privacy and Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives

Professional Liability Insurance Reform for Physicians

Letter to Vermont Retail Lumber and Building Materials Companies from Members of the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives

Resolution to Eliminate Smoking in All Indoor Public Places

 

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