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New Recovery Act Investments in Health IT

Vice President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius announce the selection of 15 communities to serve as pilot communities for eventual wide-scale use of new health information technology. [+]

PODCAST: Edelman Health Engagement Barometer

Edelman has released their "Health Engagement Barometer" study this week. Their 15,000+ person study spanned 11 countries and engaged multiple industries to determine trust and opinions about health and the importance of health in the workplace.  [+]

5 easy things you should look for when picking an EMR

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) documents patient’s medical history such as test results, medication and general clinical data in an electronic format and allows easy and rapid access to such information to authorized personnel [+]

Mayo Clinic’s thoughts on the health reform bill

The following is publicly available from http://letstalk.mayo.edu. Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 21, we have received numerous questions about the law’s impact on Mayo Clinic. Details remain unclear, [+]

“Health Connections” – Rural Health Care

Today's episode discusses the unique challenges that exist in rural health care facilities and how administrators are forced to deal with them. Adam Rees, CAO (Chief Administrative Officer) of the Austin Medical Center - [+]

Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman on Obamacare

Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman speaks on Fox Business regarding healthcare information technology and healthcare reform. [+]

Minnesota getting $47 million targeted for health care IT efforts, job training

Submitted by reader James Administration officials today announced that Minnesota will get at least $47 million of the nearly $1 billion in stimulus funding meant to boost the use of health information technology and train workers [+]

Bringing Health into the 21st Century

This talk will discuss some of the severe challenges that have hurt our ability to have a healthy people at a sane cost and how, with the intelligent help of the audience, we can turn [+]

The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century

An engaging and in depth conversation about Health Care. This conversation was hosted by the Aspen Institute. [+]

POLL: Now that the Republicans have 41 votes in the Senate, what happens to Health Care?

Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts may have just become the most important Senate member in a very long time. Scott Brown ran on a platform dedicated to killing the current Health Care Reform Legislation [+]

First thing I hear at Xmas was …

So I am sitting at Xmas with all the relatives. The first thing that came up was health care reform. Massive disagreement and disinformation permeate both Republican and Democrat view points. Are you seeing this [+]

Protecting confidentiality with technology

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Health information may be compromised in multiple ways, including from internal and external sources. There may be accidental disclosures when protected information is overheard by another party; there may be internal disclosures [+]

New Funding for Community Health Technology and Patient Centered Medical Home

President Obama announces that the Recovery Act will provide new funding for Community Health Centers to finance new construction, modernize information technology, and build a medical home model. [+]

Accessing medical technology while controlling healthcare costs

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Introduction & Background One of the chief concerns in the debate over healthcare reform is the universal need to contain healthcare costs while still providing reasonable healthcare services to the millions of uninsured. As technology [+]

POLL: What is your medical center’s largest obstacle to EHR adoption?

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Vice President Biden and U. S. Health Secretary visit Mt. Sinai

Vice President Joseph Biden hosted a roundtable discussion at Mt. Sinai Hospital, to talk about our nations health care system and the importance of health insurance reform, including health information technology infrastructure and preventative care, [+]

A rural medical center speaks out on House Bill 3962

The Austin Medical Center (AMC) is a 99 bed licensed hospital with a multiple specialty associated clinic.  AMC is a rural facility located in a service area of ~45,000 people in southern Minnesota.  Their leadership [+]

US Government: Healthcare Cost Containment

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk One of the most important social and political topics of the current environment is healthcare. Skyrocketing costs as well as an aging baby boomer population have driven concerns, especially within the [+]

Healthcare Challenges due to Financial Mechanism Changes

Guest Author: Riley, Michelle http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Due to significant changes in the mechanisms of financing, the entire healthcare system now faces significant challenges. The three most significant challenges are: the ability to service and fund public programs such as [+]

MN Senator Amy Klobuchar discusses her opinions on Health Care

Thank you for contacting me about health care. Knowing your views is important to me as I work to ensure that Americans have affordable, high quality health care choices. I am committed to protecting what [+]

Dear Senator, Have you actually READ the health care bill?

It seems that one of my physician readers is a very fast reader!  He is run through one of the House bills regarding health care reform.  He sent all of these items to the appropriate [+]

A couple of months old, but I bet you haven’t seen the Oregon Health IT Round Table

The Oregon Health Reform Collaborative organized this panel discussion about health care information technology, mostly focusing on medical records. Oregon Health IT Round Table from Archimedes Movement on Vimeo. [+]

Health Care debate gets screams and yells

The debate about health care in America is getting louder and more excited lately. The passion about this issue is inspiring and sometimes surprising as people across America are getting more and more vehement [+]

Government writing checks for Health IT is not the solution

Economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin proposes a business model using information technology to the reform the current US health care system. He argues that Medicare's payment program creates a "schizophrenic system that delivers uncoordinated care with terrible [+]

Health Care Reform Draft Proposal

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified in the second day of a series of hearings held on a draft proposal for health care reform. She focused on the rising costs of health care [+]
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