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16 Healthcare Gamification Startups To Watch In 2014
An in-depth look at sixteen of the most promising healthcare gamification startups to watch in 2014 and beyond...
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Aetna CEO To Justice Department: Block Our Deal And We'll Drop Out Of Obamacare
It's not often in the midst of an antitrust fight that the public gets a look at the gamesmanship that's happening behind the scenes. But thanks to the Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn and Jeff Young, we got a glimpse at how health insurer Aetna is making its case to acquire rival Humana — and new insight into Aetna's decision announced Tuesday to pull out of Obamcare exchanges in 11 states. The reporters obtained a copy of a letter from Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini to the Justice Department on July 5...
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CEOs/HR Execs Facing Personal Liability: Dereliction of Fiduciary Duties Triggering Labor Dept Investigations
The first shots across the bow have been fired highlighting how benefits leaders need to pay as close attention to health benefits as they have been paying to retirement plans. The most recent lawsuits name the HR leaders in the companies involved (GAP and CB&I) as defendants since they are listed as the plan administrator (sometimes CFOs are the plan administrators). It’s clear that there is going to be the increased scrutiny for health benefits that has been commonplace for retirement benefits. For example, you can Google “ERISA class action” to find the many cases surrounding retirement benefits going after plan administrators for failing in their fiduciary duties. Similar cases in healthcare could have as far-reaching implications as Obamacare in driving employers to health benefits that deliver value...
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Cigna Named 2013 Red Hat Innovator of the Year
Cigna recognized for successful Infrastructure-as-a-Service transformation project built with Red Hat solutions Read More »
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How Occupy Wall Street is Affecting Healthcare and Social Media
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. Read More »
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Red Hat Innovation Award Finalists in the Healthcare Arena
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced the finalists of the seventh annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red Hat technology. The following are three of the finalists in the healthcare arena. Read More »
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Red Hat Recognizes Cutting-Edge Open Source Deployments In Seventh Annual Innovation Awards
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the finalists of the seventh annual Red Hat Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red Hat technology. Read More »
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Telemedicine Will Be The Norm As Care Shifts Towards Patients
After nearly half a century advocating for the adoption of remote care, Dr. Jay Sanders, often dubbed the “Father of Telemedicine,” knows a thing or two about using technology to enhance the doctor-patient relationship.
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The Hidden Costs Of Obamacare
It’s the hidden costs that will thin your wallet. Copays, deductibles, and coinsurance to be specific...
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Using Digital Ledger Technology To Put Physicians Back In Control
Our healthcare system is failing. It costs more and has overall worse outcomes than any other industrialized nation. It is failing because those on the front lines of healthcare - the physicians and patients- have no say in how the system is run. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - otherwise known as blockchain - has the ability to change that. DLT allows for secure direct peer to peer (In healthcare this means patient to doctor and doctor to doctor) communication and data transfer. No more storage of private information and transactions on centralized data capturing systems like electronic health records platforms.
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Will Trump Administration Back Rules Treating Health Insurance as a Utility, Not Luxury?
On June 14, 2016 a Federal Court ruled that broadband internet is as essential to American as phones, electricity, water and sewer systems and should be available to all Americans as a utility, rather than a luxury that doesn’t need close government supervision. In the United States, public utilities are often natural monopolies because the infrastructure required producing and delivering a product such as electricity or water is very expensive to build and maintain. As a result, they are often government monopolies, or if privately owned, the sectors are specially regulated by a public utilities commission which severely limits the profits for the private utility company and the associated costs passed on to consumers of that utility...
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“Occupy Wall Street” Should Protest the Wall Street Takeover of Health Care at Insurers' Big Lobbying Group
The lobbyists for U.S. health insurers surely have to be feeling a little uneasy knowing that thousands of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who have been marching and protesting in Washington as well as New York and other cities might target them in the days ahead. Read More »
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Red Hat Summit 2014
Red Hat will hold its 10th annual Red Hat Summit at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 14-17, 2014. The Red Hat Summit brings together thought leaders and executives from across the technology industry to participate in keynotes and sessions on community, innovation, collaboration and customer success. This year's conference will feature a session on Red Hat technology in healthcare that will feature Dr. Seung Ki Mun from OSEHRA.
The session, which will be featured as a town hall meeting on Wednesday, April 16th, will also feature Don Frederick, Senior solution architect, Red Hat, Rob Barker, Director of Application Development at Cigna, and Brijesh Kalidindi, Senior IT manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan.
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