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This is a common problem we run across with Kaizen teams. The improvement team is working diligently on a process; understanding and analyzing current state, performing tests of change, developing counter measures and an implementation plan. They gave management and staff the opportunity to check in with the teams during the Kaizen …
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Lead As If You Have No Authority
Toss it or fix it? Anxious backers of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are starting to see a flicker of hope.
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Americans may give it health care law a chance
By Matthew Holt Chaim Indig has been steadily turning Phreesia from an ad-supported patient check-in service to a front end for physician’s offices to manage their relationships with patients, and collect co-pays. As such Phreesia is turning from a content…
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Chaim Indig, Phreesia, on how to spend $16m
With all the upsurge in health care costs, people who aren’t insured or haven’t any funds over and over again are at a loss on how to get the prescription medicine and medical care they require. They need a prescription program assistance program.
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Now That I Have COPD, How Do I Get A Prescription Program Assistance?
At the HisTALK blog 5/31/10 update , a site with thousands of readers involved in all aspects of health IT, the following anonymous (at this point) report appeared: From Tabula Rosa : “Re: EMR usability.
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Did EPIC CEO Judy Faulkner of Epic declare that ‘healthcare IT usability would be part of certification over her dead body?’
Health care reform is looming over every business in America, including Multi-Craft in Newport. Yet, thousands of local businesses aren’t changing anything
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Health care waiting game
Throughout the year-long debate over health care reform, President Obama promised that the legislation would reduce the spiraling cost of health care and that if you liked your health care plan, you could keep it. But a couple of new government reports confirm what many of us who opposed a federal takeover of the health care system feared all along — higher costs, less access and unsustainable …
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Much is wrong with Obama’s health care law
The debate over national health care reform has moved to the California Legislature, which this week will begin taking the initial steps to implement the complex series of overhauls prescribed by the federal government.
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Calif. begins steps to enact health care reforms
The acrimonious political environment surrounding health care reform has led to some “terrible rumors” about the end of Medicare. “This is just not true,” said Ann Kasper, program manager for the Riverside office of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program.
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Health care reform promises to close hated gap in drug medication payments
By Matthew Holt As we get closer to Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7 (Monday) we’ll be ramping up coverage of all kinds of things, and one is a big chance for you all to get to know…
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Regina Holiday, here today & on the Health 2.0 Show Tuesday
By ROGER COLLIER The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March, is a significant step towards a more equitable health insurance system, potentially making coverage available to millions of the currently uninsured. Unfortunately,…
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The Pitfalls of PPACA #1 – The Medical Loss Ratio Rule
By MAGGIE MAHAR Summary: President Obama has tapped Dr. Donald Berwick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus has said that he hopes to hold confirmation hearings before the July 4 recess, though…
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Support for Berwick to Head Medicare Grows
By MATT QUINN, Special Expert, Health IT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The usability of EHR systems, while recognized as a critical factor in the successful adoption, safe and effective use of these systems, has not historically received the…
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New AHRQ-Funded Report Provides Snapshot of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Vendor Usability Processes and Practices
By NAOMI FREUNDLICH Last week Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health proposed important new rule changes for federally-funded investigators that are designed to increase transparency and remove many of the conflicts of interest that abound in…
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Shining a Light on Conflict of Interest in Biomedical Research
Citizen participation, access to information and action usher in much needed reforms. The process to engage citizens is easy to describe but hard to achieve. So how do you grab and keep the attention of community stakeholders and keep them informed?
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Innovative Solutions to the Collective Action Problem: Participedia
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in the field of microcredit. As the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus demonstrated that lending money to poor people to start businesses could be profitable and could transform their lives by raising them out of poverty. Today, Yunus is advocating something even more revolutionary: an entire market system of companies that solve social problems and are financially self-sustaining.
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The Bold Vision of Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus
By VINCE KURAITIS JD, MBA and DAVID C. KIBBE MD, MBA Pop quiz: Among early-stage companies that are successful, what percentage are successful with the initial business model with which they started (Plan A) vs. a secondary business model (Plan…
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Is HITECH Working? #7: Where’s Plan B? Congress and ONC need to address major flaws in HITECH
By Matthew Holt One of my favorite people has the (first of) her (several) 15 minutes of fame in the NY Times today. Alex Drane tells all about growing a small business into a pretty big one (although it’s in…
By MICHAEL TURPIN Infomercials annoy me. They are social polyps that have grown to outlandish proportions on the intestines of a bloated and sick American media. The portmanteau term “ infomercial” is clearly an oxymoron describing the contradiction of programs…
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It Slices, It Dices, It Fleeces
By Matthew Holt Health 2.0 Goes to Washington, the one day conference is coming up on June 7th. We’re going to be featuring a quick series of podcasts with just a few of the presenters and demoers who are going…
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Health 2.0 Goes to Washington–Three questions for Ryan Howard, Practice Fusion