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Obamaneycare: Trotskyite takeover or big company bail out?

 Mike Miliard June 15, 2012
Some Republicans are already finding things they like in the Affordable Care Act. And while the Obama administration fails to explain the law's benefits to Americans, Romney's disingenuous campaigning about the ACA's conservative roots might be finally catching up to him.
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Putting healthcare on the map

 John Moore November 01, 2010
The stage is set for an explosion in population health mapping that will serve up a 'visual understanding' of disease trends and directions.
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Todd Park praises galaxy of innovative apps

 Mike Miliard March 27, 2012
Speaking at the HxD Conference, new U.S. CTO says that the future holds more good than we can even imagine right now, touts innovation, government data as drivers.
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Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Health Care

 August 29, 2012
This program provides health care leaders with the knowledge necessary to effectively design, develop, and deploy health information technology. The modules in this series are designed specifically for professionals and executives with technology responsibilities from diverse sectors of health care seeking to improve their organization’s health IT strategy and improve IT outcomes. Topics include: IT strategy and governance, EHR implementation, quality and safety gains from EHRs, and clinical informatics strategy.
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Public health: Where policy is tougher than police work

 Tom Sullivan June 11, 2012
Questions being posed at the Government Health IT Conference in Washington this week relate to standards, EHRs, HIE, and distributed queries -- all geared toward public and population health.
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One-third of nation's primary care providers enrolled in health IT extension centers

 Mary Mosquera November 17, 2011
In 2011, rural providers overwhelmingly sign up for extension centers, physicians begin to exchange information, community colleges graduate health IT professionals, Mostashari says.
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VA taps telehealth to treat vets at home

 Bernie Monegain November 07, 2011
The Department of Veterans Affairs arms some physicians with technology to remotely administer behavioral health, oncology and perioperative care.
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How Occupy Wall Street is affecting healthcare and social media

 Kelly Mehler October 17, 2011
The advocacy group Health Care for America Now has had a loud voice in the healthcare reform debate over the past three years. The company started a Tumblr blog titled "We are the 99 percent," where followers submit photos of themselves holding a sheet of paper, with a message as to why they choose to occupy Wall Street. The site states: "We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution." The list goes on.
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ATA, mHealth Initiative weigh in on proposed FDA mobile app guidelines

 Eric Wicklund November 04, 2011
More mobile healthcare and telehealth organizations are weighing in on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed regulation of mobile medical applications – and each has questions that it feels the FDA must answer.
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EHR vendor to report HIPAA breach

 Erin McCann March 18, 2013
An employee at the EHR maker improperly accessed medical records, the company said, and it is notifying OCR of the breach.
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ONC kicks off consumer health IT campaign

 Mary Mosquera September 12, 2011
ONC and private sector partners will show consumers how to get involved in their health care, starting with making lab results directly available to patients.
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Berwick: Healthcare is broken, fragmented, unsafe

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org December 12, 2011
The former Medicare administrator says the U.S. health care system "isn't built for modern times," but the health care law will help rein in costs and improve care.
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CMS awards 26 projects $122.6M to innovate care, cut costs

Mary Mosquera May 08, 2012
Ground-breaking solutions among healthcare organizations anticipate reducing spending by $254 million over three years.
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The problems with BYOD

 Eric Wicklund August 31, 2012
Yes, there are issues, namely that lax security means great potential for violating HIPAA regulations.
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The Attestation Experience

 John Halamka, MD April 18, 2011
This morning at 8am the CMS attestation website went live. At 8:30am, I completed the attestation for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Here's an overview of the experience.
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Gawande's Rx to change docs from 'cowboys to pit crews'

 Mary Mosquera February 09, 2012
Physicians have long operated as autonomous problem solvers, but healthcare complexity and costs will drive change to act like systems. Atul Gawande outlines 3 key skills that only exist in limited pockets but are central to the transformation.
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Argument against ICD-10 delay doesn't focus on right points

 Carl Natale May 08, 2012
To be honest, I think we're beyond arguing the merits of ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation. It's inevitable.
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House subcommittee votes to defund AHRQ

 Erin McCann July 19, 2012
Controversial bill prohibits federal funding of patient-centered outcomes research. Republicans claim intent is to reduce over-regulation, ineffective spending.
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Northern Ireland health minister touting home projects, pitching to IT firms during Boston visit

 Anthony Brino October 22, 2012
Northern Ireland's health minister will be in Boston with dozens of other European health leaders this week, and he's hoping to build the province's tech reputation and talking of some of his agency's IT and mobile health initiatives.
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FDA: mHealth pending guidelines not just about 'cool' apps

 Eric Wicklund July 26, 2012
At the 4th Annual mHealth World Congress, Bakul Patel, an FDA policy director, tells attendees that people "have to understand the risks and the intentions." Privacy and security topics also took center stage at the conference.
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