Dr. Bill Crounse has a discussion about how Healthcare.Gov was created and what is offered for consumers to make a choice of insurance carrier easier. Todd Park is the CTO who put together the project to bring the site online, again in an effort to dig through a lot of the rhetoric and get the...
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Today is the day most in Health IT have been waiting for with the new regulations and rules. The New England Journal of Medicine has condensed the 864 pages (embedded below) of the new rules and regulations into a simple graphic format, and you can right click and use “save as” or view the image...
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Here’s some additional clips from “The Vanishing Oath”. Here’s my first post from last week in case you missed it and there’s an additional film clip talking to a doctor who is just out of residency for a few years and the stress levels, as well as working part time at Blockbuster so she...
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We all know the focus is to save money, but at what cost, the relationships that we enjoy as people, especially important when we need healing and depend on our doctors to help us. Granted we have a lot more information online today and should take advantage as patients to be better informed, but...
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The problem here is the math or the algorithms used in Business Plans don’t match so knowledge of Health IT is once again being tested. I made comments last year that leaders in US Government areas of healthcare were going to need some of that knowledge and it looks like this is beginning to come to...
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This is indeed a very heated issue with the rise of new technologies and the need to really educate and demand and request participating of Congress and Legislators with some forms of what is rapidly growing in healthcare technologies. There is a company called PositiveID that has been included...
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It’s getting tough around Washington being a non participant without some tech knowledge these days and one more Congressman Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, said he’s going to retire. So far we have had 20 Republicans announce retirement and 15 Democrats. It’s getting hot in the oven in Washington...
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It certainly could come to fruition if we keep seeing the agreeing to disagree that have been on public display for the last year. There are a lot of good things in the healthcare reform bill and what is odd is that the states under GOP leadership are protesting the mandatory insurance that came...
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Hopefully Mr. Von Eschenbach might be able to add some past experience to the committee to look forward towards a future solution, maybe some on what worked and what doesn’t work. One item mentioned is speeding up the process for approving new drugs, well this is a catch 22 of sorts as we all want...
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The Senate Homeland Security Committee approved a bill week that would give the Postal Service temporary relief from making full payments to the benefits fund and increase their ability to borrow money. The House already passed a bill to allow the Post Office to alter how they finance paying for...
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