The Squirrel Hill Health Center in Pittsburgh is one of many community health centers that will see a significant funding increase under the health overhaul law, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "Probably the biggest provision in the reform package is $11 billion earmarked for new funding for the community health centers program over five years beginning in fiscal year 2011, which starts in October. A total of $9.5 billion of the amount is for the health centers to expand their operations to serve nearly 20 million new patients. The remaining $1.5 billion will be allocated for expanding existing facilities and to build new ones."

News outlets report on the way that health information technology is changing the practice of medicine.

Health Affairs: Physician-Ownership Of Ambulatory Surgery Centers Linked To Higher Volume Of Surgeries – The authors analyzed data from Florida, using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State Ambulatory Surgery Databases, revealing "a significant association between physician-ownership of surgicenters and greater use" of certain outpatient procedures. And, the "data reveal that the acquisition of ownership status coincided with significant increases in a physician's use of carpal tunnel release, cataract excision, colonoscopy, and knee arthroscopy," the authors report.

LONDON (AP) -- British doctors say they have used an inert gas to prevent brain injury in a baby boy who was born in critical condition....