Obama’s Health Care Town Hall
The President’s health care town hall, context and opening remarks: “fix what’s broken, build on what works” appears here: http://bit.ly/YDfayThe President just concluded a town hall at Southwest High School…
The President’s health care town hall, context and opening remarks: “fix what’s broken, build on what works” appears here: http://bit.ly/YDfayThe President just concluded a town hall at Southwest High School…
HIT Policy and Standards Committees Commence Work on National Health Information Infrastructure HITSP (Health Information Technology Standards) updated to the National eHealth Collaborative in early June 2009. Here are a…
While at the America's Health Insurance Plans conference in San Diego (AHIP) we met with Rob Scavo, President of Product Management and Core Administrative Solutions at TriZetto.We asked Rob to…
While at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) conference in San Diego, we interviewed Carl Scarabelli from EDI Watch. The company's solution promises to reduce a huge problem for health insurance…
Market for EMRs pegged at $1.6 billion by 2013 http://ping.fm/WrpmSNEW YORK – The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is…
While at the San Diego AHIP conference we interviewed HCI Insight, a company that promises to reduce the cost of health care by addressing fraud. HCI's loss calculators indicate that…
Today while entering the AHIP conference we encountered demonstrators who want the health care industry to change. We intereviewed Kathy Rallings, an employe at California Techers Association. The people *inside*…
Slate Magazine analyzed the Obama administration's forecasted $2 trillion in health care savings, then questioned which initiatives would provide true savings. The highest ranked initiatives were encouraging coordinated care… and…
An article in the New Yorker asks: Why does the border town of McAllen, Texas, spend more per person on health care—an average Medicare enrollee there costs $15,000 per year—than any U.S.…
How will education play out in the future given the use of technology and information sharing? Children starting school in 2006 will be retiring in 2065. We aren't sure what…
"Streamlining administrative processes while continuing to invest in patient care is not mutually exclusive. Business process management, or BPM, can provide a clear view of processes across all systems, including billing, accounting and other legacy systems.