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Just For Grins
Just for grins today I downloaded the 1018 pages of the House Resolution for health care reform from house.gov. No wonder no one really knows what is going on, but this much I did find out. It spells...
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The End of Congress
So, according to Charles Babington of the Associated Press, President Obama has disbanded Congress and "guarantees" that health care overhaul will pass and will abide by his four "bullet points" of...
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Long Piece
I am working on a long piece entitled "Does Healthcare Have to be Nationalized to be Reformed?" and it will be a couple of weeks before I am done with the research. If you would like to help me with...
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Interesting Tidbit
We have all seen the chart that shows the US is spending more for health care as a percentage of GDP than any other industrialized nation. The latest chart I have seen is in T. R. Reids book "The...
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A Departure of Sorts
Let us depart from the tried and true (and often overworked) vision of VistA and take a new slant that will enhance our discussion of the software life cycle. Instead of looking at VistA as the EMR of...
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Troubling Question
As with most Americans I have approached the question of healthcare reform with an "us" or "them" attitude. As with most Americans I have not had to do without any form of insurance during my lifetime....
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The Long Haul
It has taken some time, but the raucous over heath care reform seems to be dying down. Does that mean the task is over, or does it just mean that Congress is not in the limelight right now? It means...
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A Point of Ponderance
As a point of ponderance tonight I did a couple of Google searches - the first was on "electronic medical records software" which netted the usual million or so hits, but of particular interest was the...
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The State of Health Care
The stunning victory of the Republican Party in Massachusetts yesterday sent a message loud and clear to the White House and Congress that the American people do not like the direction health care...
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Health Care Overhaul
What looks like the end of the President's health care overhaul has some people shouting for joy, but it should not be that way. As Washington Senator Maria Cantwell noted even with no health care...
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The Cleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic is being touted as the model for American health care reform, and that’s fine. What the Cleveland Clinic has done is to discover the benefits of Fluxus Quo in developing their own...
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New Health Care
The President is putting forward a new "compromise" health care bill that is still going to cost over $1 trillion in the next ten years. Suddenly it seems we have to pass something to earn political...
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Safety Oversight for Electronic Medical Records
As reported in the Huffington Post Investigative Fund (subject link) the Federal Government is looking at how best to provide oversight of electronic medical records as they prepare to spend billions...
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If There Is A Way To Make a Buck...
If there is a way to make a quick buck, someone will find it and someone else will use it to their advantage. The old adage of “buyer beware” is alive and well, it would seem, in healthcare...
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And So It Starts...
It looks like the Congress is going to get a healthcare reform package through the doors, finally, by resorting to budget reconciliation to match up the House bill with the Senate version. It looks...
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Healthcare Reform
The founding fathers did not think it mutiny to rebel against a system of government which did not represent the best interests of the governed. That is why we have the United States today. Our...
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CPOE Errors
As Doctors Shift to Electronic Health Systems, Signs of Harm Emerge Reports Link System Malfunctions to Injuries, DeathsBy Fred Schulte and Emma SchwartzHuffington Post Investigative FundOne day in...
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Where Do We Go Now...
The healthcare reform bill has been signed into law, and the iron triangle is hard at work formulating the regulations that will be put in place to enforce the law.Already several states are joining in...
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So where are we going with health care?
So where are we going with health care? Today it is hard to get through the hype and hyperbole to find some modicum of truth. We passed the health care bill so we could see what it said, and depending...
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New Digital Networks
There is a lot of tax-payer money being thrown at electronic medical records lately. While the new emphasis on EHR's is certainly welcome, some caution needs to be exercised. The subject news article...
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