healthcare policy and legislation

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Berwick Platform: ‘Seriously’ Explore Single Payer, Review Cost Control

Carey Goldberg | NPR Boston | November 21, 2013

Granted, a candidate releasing his platform on health care for a race that’s a full year away might not strike you as big breaking news...That candidate is Dr. Donald Berwick, former chief of Medicare in the Obama administration, and that territory is the idea of a “single-payer” system — a sort of “Medicare for all” that’s common in other developed countries but that faces some strong opposition in the United States...

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Don Berwick's Newest Phase: Candidate, But Still Dr. Quality

Martha Bebinger | Kaiser Health News | August 29, 2013

Dr. Donald Berwick might be running for Governor of Massachusetts, but he's still got a foothold in his former life.  Berwick, most recently known as the acting chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, had a long record as the leading authority on health care quality, including being founder and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement...

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Premier Survey Shows EHR Buyers' Remorse

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | June 2, 2014

Even as healthcare providers across the country are struggling to make their new, expensive technology work, a new survey shows providers are more frustrated with their purchases than ever...

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U.S. Researchers, U.K. Partner On Open Data Healthcare Framework

Susan D. Hall | Fierce Health IT | June 4, 2014

The creation of a blueprint for the use of open data in healthcare was the driving force behind a recent collaboration between researchers at New York University's GovLab and England's National Health Service...

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