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Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said now is the time to break the logjam in Congress over his health-care initiative and push the legislation through, as some lawmakers warned that further delay could jeopardize passage.
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Obama Says Health Care Needs Final Push in Congress (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said now is the time to break the logjam in Congress and push his health- care initiative through to passage.
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Obama Says Health Care Needs Final Push in Congress (Update1) (Bloomberg)
My essay ” Virtual Medical Devices and Vendor Liabilities ” was published at the HisTalk website, a website that serves as a healthcare IT industry news/gossip/watchdog site. It addresses the hold-me-harmless, business IT-type claims made to Sen
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Virtual Medical Devices and Vendor Liabilities
In the battle over health care reform, two ideas seems to bridge the divide between Democrats and Republicans: Private insurers should be required to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions and be banned from charging older, sicker people much more. But where the two camps jibe could also cause the most damage to health care.
Scott Shane thinks universal coverage will increase the creation of new businesses. But he says health-care-reforms could result in a net loss of jobs
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Eliminating Health Care ‘Job Lock’ Will Generate Few Jobs (BusinessWeek)
By KENT BOTTLES The task of health care reform in 21st century America is to decrease per-capita cost of care and to increase the quality of care delivered to patients. It’s complicated. A famous Rand study concluded that Americans only…
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Check Lists and Decision Trees versus Spontaneity and Imagination
By Ian Morrison “I want your Ugly. I want your Disease I want your Everything, as long as it’s Free.” —America’s leading contemporary philosopher, Stefani Germanotta (aka Lady Gaga) Insight comes from unlikely sources. Lady Gaga nailed the health reform…
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American Healthcare: Caught in a Bad Romance
By Matthew Holt When you’re at a party and someone explains to you that they just read a great article in the NY Times explaining why Peggy Noonan doesn’t understand basic math, and you know that they’re referring to Uwe…
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Uwe and Heritage agree: we need a tax-funded universal pool
At ” As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash, Bringing to Life Secrets the Health IT Companies Don’t Want You to Know ” I wrote of the used-car nature of the healthcare IT market, where lemon laws do not seem to exist and “physician buyer beware” seems a defining characteristic. The Huffington Post Investigative Fund now has a report of their own on this phenomenon: Shopping for Health Software, Some Doctors Get Buyer’s Remorse By Emma Schwartz Huffington Post Investigative Fund Jan. 29, 2010 Computerizing American medical records within five years is a key goal of federal health policymakers, but disputes between some doctors and their technology vendors highlight the many challenges for individual medical practices making the conversion
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As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash – Part 2
Yes, as records go digital, cultures clash: the culture of medicine, and the culture of the Barbary pirates.
By MERRILL GOOZNER Dartmouth scholars have revisited their analysis of regional variation in health care spending and found contrary to the assertions of some critics that cost-of-living differentials do not account for much of the difference. However, they confirmed that…
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Regional Variation Revisited: Price Differences Not A Significant Factor
The announcement of the Apple iPad has been accompanied by the usual irrationally exuberant, buzzword-laden statements and bellicose grandiosity from the IT punditry about how it will “revolutionize ” or “transform” medicine. However, this will not occur anytime soon, for in medicine, the device may help solve a portability and visibility problem (compared to PDA’s), but it will not solve this problem: the mission hostile user experience
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Why The Apple iPad Will Not Revolutionize, Change the Game, Transform or Create New Paradigms in Medicine Anytime Soon
Barack Obama began his presidency with one of the most ambitious programs of change in history — with major initiatives in defense, foreign affairs, economic recovery, health care, the environment, and more. Now that the administration has completed its first year, politicians and pundits are assessing what the President has accomplished.
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Obama’s Change Management Report Card
In his State of the Union speech on Wednesday, President Obama directly addressed one of the biggest threats to his presidency: that the American people have thoroughly lost faith in their government to address the country’s biggest problems. Americans don’t understand, said Obama, “why Washington has been unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems
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Obama’s Challenge: The Process, Not the People
By DON KEMPER, CEO HEALTHWISE Regardless of the U.S. administration’s “meaningful use” requirements, if health information technology (HIT) is to become meaningful for patients, it must include the prescription of information and tools to help each patient better manage his…
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The Info-Button Standard: Bringing Meaningful Use to the Patient
Kevin, MD continues his takeover of the media, with another very good editorial in USA Today : Doctors ignore Internet at their own peril By Kevin Pho Raise your hand if you've ever left a physician's office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an office visit. As a primary care physician, being unable to clearly communicate with patients is frustrating
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Column: Doctors ignore Internet at their own peril – Opinion – USATODAY.com
By BILL KRAMER A week ago, before the Massachusetts special election, health reformers felt that their house was almost finished. The edifice of health reform had been built painstakingly using blueprints designed by policy and political experts during the past…
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House of Straw or House of Bricks?
By Matthew Holt Gilles Frydman is one of the leading ePatients. He started and runs ACOR (Association of Cancer Online Resources) and has discussed the role of engaged patients with rare diseases at the last few Health 2.0 Conferences. We’ll…
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ACOR, Health 2.0 in the US & Europe: Gilles Frydman tells all
In an essay that ties together recent exposés of serious IT security flaws (starting with Operation Aurora ) and a culture of secrecy that pervades the IT industry and industries who use IT, I ask the question: Is universal healthcare IT really a good idea in 2010?
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Operation Aurora And a Widespread Reluctance to Discuss IT Flaws: Is Universal Healthcare IT Really a Good Idea in 2010?
By Jeff Goldsmith The shocking surrender of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat to an insurgent Republican state legislator, Scott Brown, has imperiled President Obama’s health reform initiative. The Massachusetts “massacre” has unleashed a tidal wave of second guessing from Democratic pundits….
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Panicky People Make Bad Decisions : Salvaging Health Reform after Scott Brown