Former HHS Director has created his own company, Leavitt Partners? One area of focus from the website is “Private Equity”. Will there be encouraging advice here on where to invest? You can read about all the areas of focus here. Taylor Leavitt is part...
CCHIT, the certification for electronic medical records and standards has been in the news quite a bit lately, even with a company in Texas making the offer to certify records. As technology gets more complicated and certification of the algorithms used for records gets more complicated, so goes...
The battle heated up today on whether or not CCHIT should be the governing certification unit in it’s present state, the big battle being over including vendors on the board. I think the most unfair portion though is the fee to be certified and if that could be reduced to allow additional vendors...
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Some issues are a result of still being paper driven as timely reports and real time information are not available, but they are not the only government agency in this scenario, only one of the most critical though. Also, some members of Congress don’t use computers either and felt uncomfortable...
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Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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