Telehealth Network to be Built in New England

November 29, 2012

According to a recent survey from the New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, 42 percent of voters want cuts in health IT. The survey, which was based on the thoughts of 1,202 consumer son their post-election thoughts on healthcare, found that 69 percent of respondents said President Barack Obama has to rein in healthcare costs.

November 29, 2012

A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has determined that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) faces obstacles in the Medicare EHR incentive program because it does not verify whether the self-reported information from providers is accurate and thus the integrity of the program is in question. The OIG charges CMS with not implementing ?strong prepayment safeguards,? in the 38-page report, released this week.

November 28, 2012

More than 400 healthcare facilities across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont will participate in a new telehealth network. The effort is buoyed by Ethernet services from the Portland, Maine-based FairPoint Communications, a broadband internet network provider. It will aim to strengthen the New England Telehealth Consortium?s (NETC), which is a three-state group that has been awarded a $24.6 million Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rural Health Care Pilot Program award to bring telemedicine to the region.

November 28, 2012

A group of researchers from Kansas State University are exploring the effect social media platforms could have on preventing infectious diseases from spreading. The researchers say that a tweet from an influential source could be just as effective as a flu shot.

November 28, 2012

According to a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), nearly half of doctors using an EHR are e-prescribing, a sharp increase from just four years ago. In June of this year, ONC said 48 percent of doctors using an EHR were e-prescribing. In December of 2008, this number was at only 7 percent.

November 27, 2012

Alere Home Monitoring, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of patient home monitoring services, recently disclosed that a company-owned laptop containing protected health information including Social Security numbers and diagnosis codes, was recently stolen from a locked vehicle that belonged to one of the firm?s employees. The company says it has notified approximately 116,000 individuals of the incident.

November 27, 2012

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), a large academic medical center, recently announced a data breach that affected approximately 1,500 patients. UAMS says a former physician, who was fired in 2010, kept patient lists and notes after leaving the hospital in June of that year.

November 27, 2012

According to a recent report from the Mountain View, Calif.-based research company, Frost & Sullivan, the health information exchange market is set to grow significantly over the next 18-24 months thanks to various regulatory factors. The report, U.S. Health Information Exchange Market: A Comprehensive Guide to Market Dynamics, Technology Vendors, and Future Trends, looks at the specific opportunities in this space.

November 27, 2012

In addition to its recently announced patient engagement framework, the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is releasing an affiliated online assessment tool that will help providers and payers evaluate where they stand in this area. NeHC, which worked with HealthCAWS on the platform, says its Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool (CeRT) can be used as a real-time progress evaluator for payers and providers looking to gauge their patient engagement activities. It also can give recommendations to providers on how they can improve.

November 26, 2012

Improving medication adherence remains one of the healthcare system?s greatest challenges. According to a recent study from the Oakland, Calif.-based integrated system, Kaiser Permanente, patients who receive automatic reminders are 1.6 times more likely to fill prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering statins than those who don?t get one.

November 26, 2012

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the first three participants in a new data sharing initiative aimed at getting more information to consumers to improve healthcare quality. The organizations in the Medicare Data Sharing for Performance Measurement program are Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati, Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (serving the Greater Kansas City area in Missouri and Kansas), and Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation.

November 26, 2012

Intermountain Healthcare, a Salt Lake City-based healthcare system with 22 hospitals, recently announced it signed a multi-year contract with Siemens Healthcare (Malvern, Pa.) for $11.7 million to improve upon the system?s enterprise-wide imaging system. The agreement will allow Intermountain to deploy a vendor neutral archive from Siemens, which will allow images of multiple modalities to be stored in a Dell data center and managed with Dell?s clinical data management software.

November 26, 2012

A recent report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research, indicates that as the market for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) grows, providers are looking for vendors that can rapidly improve in the middle of a changing industry. The report, Radiology PACS Technology: The World Looks Under the Covers, looks at various PACS-related feedback from customers and finds the top vendors are those who can offer ?meaningful and timely upgrades with expanded usability.?

November 21, 2012

Pediatricians are not as up to par in the usage of EHRs as some of their fellow doctors, a recent survey led by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital and East Carolina University with accompanying data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), revealed. According to the researchers, pediatricians are up to two years behind the overall rate of EHR adoption, while those that have systems are without basic functionality.

November 21, 2012

Deloitte and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recently conducted a study and found that for providers, life sciences companies, and payers there is clear correlation between return on investment (ROI) from clinical IT systems and high organizational support from health informatics. The organizations where respondents didn?t buy into the idea that health IT leads to significant ROI didn?t have as strong organizational support, alignment, and executive sponsorship as those that did.

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Tom Coughlin comfortable in retail consultant role | Business ...

Once retail gets in the blood, it?s hard to shake, according to Tom Coughlin, former Wal-Mart board vice chairman and a longtime student of legendary merchant Sam Walton.

In his first media interview since his sudden departure from Wal-Mart, Coughlin recently talked with The City Wire about his consultant firm, the evolutionary business of retail he says is customer-centric regardless of the shopping channel, and what he is doing now more than seven years after retiring as one of the top officers of the world?s largest retailer.

Coughlin?s retirement from Wal-Mart in 2005 was followed by a grand jury investigation into fraudulent activity which occurred on the corporate clock. To avoid a lengthy trial, he pled guilty, made full restitution to the court, and served ?a 27-month sentence of home confinement. In August 2008, Wal-Mart settled with Coughlin over his retirement benefits for his 28 years of service during a time of exceptional company growth.??

WAL-MART BEST DAYS AHEAD
At 63, Coughlin appears comfortable in his own skin and he?s passionate about the ongoing and often rapid changes within the retail sector.??Coughlin says emphatically he remains a loyal shopper and ?Wal-Mart?s best days are still ahead.?

?I buy just about everything at the Walmart Store in Jane, (Mo.) and the ?big man?s shop? at Dillard?s,? Coughlin said candidly.

He?s also a fan of Sam?s Club and it?s major competitor Costco. He has a profound respect for Jim Sinegal, founder of Costco.???I truly believe Jim Sinegal is the second greatest retailer of all time. He never let his ego get in his way,? Coughlin said. ?He stuck to what made sense.???Nearly eight years removed from his last days as the No. 2 executive of Wal-Mart Stores, Coughlin is sought out regularly by suppliers and other retail enthusiasts for his ?insight and expertise.?

His firm, Tom Coughlin & Associates, offers a range of services that include everything from being a sounding board to in-depth scrutiny over products, brand expansion and operational efficiencies.

SUPPLIER RELATIONS
During his tenure at Wal-Mart, Coughlin worked closely with suppliers and said the relationship is about give and take ? in the yin and yang concept ? where both sides need each other for mutual success.

He said finding a balance requires open conversation and mutual understanding that the customer must come first.

?I often advise suppliers to keep their Wal-Mart business at a 25% maximum of the total gross revenues. It?s a major temptation for suppliers to want more given Wal-Mart?s size, but discipline is critical,? Coughlin said.

He said that is a lesson learned ?many moons ago from Sam himself.?

Coughlin said he was a young man, new to Bentonville at a time when there was one stop light in town, and he had a lot to learn about the retail business.

?Jack Shewmaker and Sam took me to lunch one day and asked me how I planned to save the company money. As the head of security I had been researching the cost of a security system in a new store planned for Little Rock, a large market for us at that time. I discovered the cost of a security system in a large city would be an expensive thing and I knew we had several other larger city stores planned,? Coughlin said.

The total security outlay of the one store was going to be something like 8% of the entire company costs, he added. Coughlin said he tossed out an idea that they might purchase a security alarm vendor outright, set up a wholesale division for ordering parts and then buy the services from themselves.

?We were using just one company primarily for those services at that time. Sam asked how much it would cost, and we told him the security company owner wanted about $98,000 for his business. I was shocked when Sam said, ?Let?s do it,? because I had never bought a business of any kind at that point in my career,? Coughlin recalled.

?GOOD DEAL FOR BOTH PARTIES?
Over the next few days Coughlin said he studied the business, looked for ways to depreciate assets and finally got the sales prices down to $45,000.

?I was excited to tell Sam how much money this would save our company. I couldn?t believe his response when I told him about the $45,000 deal. He looked at me and said that I had done a good job, and he wanted to buy the company, but he would pay the firm $100,000 for their business. I couldn?t understand why he would want to do that after I had negotiated a lower price,? Coughlin said.

Sam?s decision to go with the $100,000 price bothered Coughlin all weekend.

?On our way home from church on Sunday, I saw Sam?s truck at the office, so I asked my wife, then pregnant with our first child, to let me out so I could speak to Sam about this matter. I told Cynthia I would walk home as we lived in town at that time,? he said.

When Coughlin approached Sam about the sales price that Sunday afternoon he was amazed at the answer.

?Sam told me that Lewis (the security firm) had been with him since his first store. He said there were times early on when sales were down and he had to ask for a month?s extension and Lewis always gave it. Sam said when we asked for six months dating on new stores to allow time for them to get up and running before paying, Lewis was there. Sam told me offering a lower price at that time wouldn?t be a good deal for Lewis. And I will never forget what he said next,? Coughlin continued.

?If it?s not a good deal for both parties, then it?s not a good deal.?

Coughlin said the story illustrates the trusted relationship between supplier and retailer.

?This had a profound impact on me as I continued to work directly with suppliers throughout my career in retail and now as an advisor,? Coughlin said.

POST RETIREMENT
When Coughlin retired from Wal-Mart in early 2005, he came home to a 2,100-acre ranch near Centerton and a large herd of registered Angus cattle he amassed over several years.

?Cynthia had become so adept at managing the cattle business she didn?t need or necessarily want my help,? Coughlin joked. ?We call her the cattle baroness around here.?

He said the consultant business is a natural extension for him because of the relationships he has maintained inside retail circles and the outlying vendor community.

?I was fortunate to run the largest business in the world. I got tremendous satisfaction from my relationships both at Wal-Mart and the vendor community and though I have had opportunities to run other organizations since then, that?s not for me.? Coughlin said.

But he does serve as a board member for New York City-based Ken?s Krew, a nonprofit corporation that provides vocational training and job placement services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This organization was founded by Ken Langone, co-founded of Home Depot and a close friend to Coughlin.

Coughlin also serves on the board of directors for Geeknet.com, a web-based retail site catering to the tech-savvy demographic. This venture is also run by Langone. Fairfax, Va.-based Geeknet was acquired by Dice Holdings on Sept. 18. The company reported third-quarter revenue of $17.3 million, up from $14.7 million in the 2011 period. The company posted a $2 million loss from continuing operations in the quarter, but posted an $8.4 million accounting gain based on the $14 million sale of its media business.

When asked if he is comfortable at this place and time in his life, Coughlin, smiled and said: ?Retail provided me wonderful opportunities over the years and sharing that expertise today feels right.?

Source: http://www.thecitywire.com/node/25339

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Human-caused climate change signal emerges from the noise

ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) ? By comparing simulations from 20 different computer models to satellite observations, Lawrence Livermore climate scientists and colleagues from 16 other organizations have found that tropospheric and stratospheric temperature changes are clearly related to human activities.?

The team looked at geographical patterns of atmospheric temperature change over the period of satellite observations. The team's goal of the study was to determine whether previous findings of a "discernible human influence" on tropospheric and stratospheric temperature were sensitive to current uncertainties in climate models and satellite data.

The troposphere is the lowest portion of earth's atmosphere. The stratosphere sits just above the troposphere, between 6 and 30 miles above earth's surface.

The satellite temperature data sets were produced by three different research groups, and rely on measurements of the microwave emissions of oxygen molecules. Each group made different choices in processing these raw measurements, and in accounting for such complex effects as drifts in satellite orbits and in instrument calibrations.

The new climate model simulations analyzed by the team will form the scientific backbone of the upcoming 5th assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is due out in 2014.

In both satellite observations and the computer model simulations of historical climate change, the lower stratosphere cools markedly over the past 33 years. This cooling is primarily a response to the human-caused depletion of stratospheric ozone. The observations and model simulations also show a common pattern of large-scale warming of the lower troposphere, with largest warming over the Arctic, and muted warming (or even cooling) over Antarctica. Tropospheric warming is mainly driven by human-caused increases in well-mixed greenhouse gases.

"It's very unlikely that purely natural causes can explain these distinctive patterns of temperature change," said Laboratory atmospheric scientist Benjamin Santer, who is lead author of the paper appearing in the Nov. 29 online edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"No known mode of natural climate variability can cause sustained, global-scale warming of the troposphere and cooling of the lower stratosphere."

The team analyzed results from climate model simulations with specified historical changes in human and natural external factors, and from simulations with projected 21st century changes in greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols. They also looked at simulations with no changes in external influences on climate, which provide information on the year-to-year and decade-to-decade "noise" of internal climate variability, arising from such natural phenomena as the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

The team used a standard "climate fingerprint" method to search for the model signal pattern (in response to human influences, the sun and volcanoes) in the satellite observations. The method quantifies the strength of the signal in observations, relative to the strength of the signal in natural climate noise.

Other contributors include researchers from Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa; the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Australia; the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton; the University of Colorado, Boulder; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; the U.K. Met. Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, U.K.; the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France; North Carolina State University; the National Climatic Data Center, Asheville; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder; the University of Adelaide, South Australia; the University of Reading, U.K.; and the Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Camp Springs.

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Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren gestures while answering questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren gestures while answering questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren answers questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren pauses as he answers questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren answers questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Former Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren answers questions during a news conference Monday, Nov. 26, 2012, in Berea, Ohio. Holmgren is leaving the team immediately rather than stay on as an adviser through the end of this season. His exit raises more questions about a possible return to coaching and what he truly accomplished during his time with Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

BEREA, Ohio (AP) ? Mike Holmgren's run as a team president is over, ending prematurely and before he planned.

For weeks, he has hung around Cleveland's offices doing what he could to help new owner Jimmy Haslam. Holmgren attended meetings, practices and games. He talked with players, coaches and consulted with his replacement, CEO Joe Banner, now in charge of running the Browns.

Holmgren made his pitch for the team to keep coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert beyond this season.

And now, there's nothing left. It's time for Holmgren to move on to the next phase of his life, which may or may not include another foray as an NFL coach.

Last week, he knew his work was finished.

"I was done," he said. "I already passed the baton."

Less than three years after signing a five-year contract with former owner Randy Lerner to fix Cleveland's franchise, Holmgren is leaving. His final day with the Browns will be Friday, and after that he and his wife, Kathy, will return to their home in Arizona, where the 64-year-old will contemplate his future.

"We are going to fly to Phoenix on Saturday and catch my breath a little bit and take it easy and ride my motorcycle," Holmgren said. "I honestly don't know if I'm going to go back to work immediately or not and I don't know if it's going to be in football."

This was not the exit he envisioned.

Holmgren thought he would leave amid a playoff push or as Cleveland celebrated finally winning a Super Bowl title like the one he helped bring to Green Bay. But everything changed when Haslam bought the Browns for $1.05 billion and hired Banner, who built the Philadelphia Eagles into perennial contenders.

Holmgren was the odd-man out.

He stayed to assist Haslam and Banner with the transition, and while he got some things accomplished, it became obvious he was no longer needed.

The Browns went just 12-31 under Holmgren, but he's proud of restoring the business side of the Browns and an on-the-field turnaround that may not be evident for several more years.

As he walks away, Holmgren was asked if he feels somewhat unsatisfied.

"Any time you don't reach your goals in this business on one hand then, yeah," he said. "Having said that, though, I really can feel good, and the guys who have been here can feel good about what the future holds. But time will tell."

It wasn't until he left the sideline that Holmgren realized how much he missed coaching. He longed for the interaction with players, and the chance to teach. He still hasn't gotten comfortable watching games from the press box, and he's hinted that he might coach again ? in the right situation.

After reports surfaced that he would be interested in coaching in Dallas if Jason Garrett was fired, Holmgren said he did not know where those rumors started. However, they gained more traction when he recently met owner Jerry Jones on the field before the Cowboys hosted the Browns.

Holmgren said he called Jones beforehand and they agreed it was OK to be seen together publicly.

"I phoned him and said if this caused any problem for anyone I apologize for that," Holmgren said. "He said absolutely not. I said, 'Listen, every time we play against each other, and it's been a number of times, we've always said hello and been cordial.' I said maybe this time I shouldn't do that if you rather I'd not do that. And he said, 'If you don't come and see me' in typical fashion, if you know him. I said, 'OK.' I talked to Stephen (Jones' son) before then Jerry came out. We talked about the stuff we always talk about ? family and the Salvation Army."

Holmgren, who last coached for Seattle in 2008, insists he isn't close to making a decision on a return to coaching.

"As of right now, I really haven't given it much thought other than the fact there are no plans right now," he said.

Banner said if Holmgren decided to coach, the Browns don't have any agreement where they would be compensated.

"Mike's free to do what he wants next in this field or whatever he'd like to do," he said.

Banner has spent time over the past few weeks meeting with Holmgren and has gotten a better handle on where the Browns are as an organization.

"He was just incredibly helpful and professional and supportive," Banner said. "As you know, we were more than happy to have him stay. But as he said from the beginning that once he kind of made the difference he could, it would probably be time to leave. I'm really appreciative of the time we had together. I think it helped me. I learned a lot through it."

During what he called "brutally honest" conversations with Banner, Holmgren gave strong endorsements not only for Shurmur and Heckert, but others working for the Browns. Before leaving, he wanted to make sure some of the people he had hired were given a fair chance to keep their jobs.

"All I could do is be honest and tell him what I thought," he said. "We had to make a bunch of changes in our first year, too. And so, we talked about that. We talked about all that stuff and that was the transition period. And now all the talking is done and I said what I had to say and now we'll see happens at the end of the year."

Holmgren exits the Browns with one regret ? not winning enough.

He feels he did all he could, and although he thought he understood the city's passion for the Browns, it was only when he came here that he fully grasped it.

He's leaving, but some of him will stay in Cleveland. When he watches the Browns from now on, he'll do so with pride.

"When they do well, I'll feel good about that," he said. "I'll feel good for the players and I'll feel good for the coaches and the organization and the people because I was here. I am very thankful that I got this opportunity to do this."

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Chelsea is held 0-0 by Man City

By ROB HARRIS

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updated 10:01 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2012

LONDON (AP) -Rafa Benitez endured a hostile reception and gave the restless Chelsea fans nothing to cheer about as his first match in charge ended in a drab 0-0 draw with Manchester City on Sunday.

An insipid performance extended Chelsea's winless run to five matches with Benitez, four days after replacing Roberto Di Matteo, failing to engineer an immediate uplift in fortunes amid constant jeering.

"My experience in England is that when the fans are singing I don't understand what they say," said Benitez, whose last job here ended at Liverpool in 2010. "I can understand the rivalry in the past (between Chelsea and Liverpool), but I am sure the majority of fans will understand I am a professional and I just want to do my job."

The meeting of the champions of England (City) and Europe (Chelsea) failed to produce any real attacking moments of note.

Fernando Torres was restored to Chelsea's starting lineup but the misfiring striker, who was so prolific under Benitez at Liverpool, squandered his only meaningful chance in the second half.

"You could see he was trying hard - the team has to help Fernando create more chances to score goals," Benitez said.

Chelsea dropped to fourth below West Bromwich Albion, while City remains unbeaten but lost top spot to Manchester United, which leads by one point.

But it is was the intense venom directed by Chelsea fans at Benitez that provided the most memorable moments and revealed their verdict on the ninth managerial change of Roman Abramovich's nine years in charge.

Di Matteo lost his job after a loss to Juventus left Chelsea's hopes of progressing in the Champions League in jeopardy, although Mancini's City went out in the group stage for the second successive season on Wednesday.

And the Italian manager urged the Chelsea fans to give Benitez time.

"I don't think Rafa is a magician," Mancini said. "I don't think in two days he can change everything."

After chanting Di Matteo's name, Benitez's introduction before the match was greeted with persistent jeers from all around Stamford Bridge.

The on-pitch announcer had to plead with the fans to mute their dissent so that tribute could be paid to former manager Dave Sexton, who died on Saturday.

But after a minute's applause, the Chelsea fans turned on Benitez again with chants of, "We don't want you here," while "Rafa Out" banners appeared in the ground.

"How many people do you need to write a banner? One," said Benitez, who has a contract until the end of the season. "And maybe two to hold it."

Perhaps the only thing that can appease the home fans who are angry that their Champions League-winning manager was fired is that Benitez's "interim" position was highlighted in the match program and team sheet.

It took 20 minutes for the first scoring chance - and that fell to City - with David Silva heading over the bar, while Sergio Aguero went close at the end of the first half when he headed straight at goalkeeper Petr Cech.

"I think we are playing very well but are missing a goal," Mancini said. "We had a lot of chances, but were missing the last pass or shot. When you are near the box you should be very strong, if you are soft you cannot score. We dominated the first half, second half Chelsea did better."

As Chelsea imposed itself more after the break, Ramires fired over from 25 yards (meters) and David Luiz was off target with a header.

Torres was starved for service and cut an isolated figure up front, rarely looking like scoring his fifth league goal of the season.

His only opening came after Juan Mata and Eden Hazard combined to set up the Spain striker, who blasted over in the 61st.

"We didn't link with the players in the second line as much as I was expecting," Benitez said. "It's something I want to improve and then we will create more chances."

City goalkeeper Joe Hart only had one key save to make, palming a strike from Ashley Cole over the bar late on, although the home fans were annoyed that a corner wasn't awarded.

For close to the first time in the game, referee Chris Foy was the target of the Chelsea fans' anger rather than their own manager.

"He is here to try to change things to put us in a winning mode ... and he needs to get a chance to prove he's worth (it) to have a chance - we have a new start," Cech said. "Today was about starting from zero again and getting a positive result.

"You need some time when you change the manager to get a positive result, and the mood and 0-0 against the champions is not a bad result."

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