healthcare
See the following -
Obamacare Enrollment Company Fumbles Client Data
In a slipup to stoke Republicans' Obamacare security concerns, Enroll Alaska accidentally released email addresses of about 300 clients Monday afternoon. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare Guarantees Higher Health Insurance Premiums -- $3,000+ Higher
President Obama will deliver a second inaugural address later this month. He’ll no doubt reflect on what he’s done during his first four years in office — and on his signature healthcare law in particular. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare Site Flaws Due To More Than ‘Talent Gap’
As Congress begins investigating the rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, technology experts warn that it may not find any easy scapegoats. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare Still Stumping Medical, Non-Medical Professionals
Two speakers at last week's Northstate Economic Forecast Conference followed the same path when it came to describing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare Victory Spells More Work For Healthcare CIOs
First, a bit of transparency: I believe in universal health coverage and don't think the word "socialized," as in socialized medicine, is a four-letter word. How exactly the nation should roll out that universal coverage--without creating a bureaucratic nightmare or bankrupting the country--is beyond my expertise, but in principle it's the right direction. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare Website For Spanish Speakers Has Problems, Too
Lost in the hubbub surrounding the malfunctioning HealthCare.gov is another missed deadline and closed door for millions of Americans seeking health insurance: CuidadoDeSalud.gov. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare's Slush Fund Fuels A Broader Lobbying Controversy
A little-noticed part of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act channels some $12.5 billion into a vaguely defined “Prevention and Public Health Fund” over the next decade–and some of that money is going for everything from massage therapists who offer “calming techniques,” to groups advocating higher state and local taxes on tobacco and soda, and stricter zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare, The Constitution, And The Original Meaning Of The Commerce Clause
Several lawsuits over the health-care reform's individual mandate hinge on interpretations of the constitution's Commerce Clause. This clause is widely believed to grant Congress broad power over national markets. But that isn't what the founders had in mind. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamacare’s Open Source Project Lives On — Even After White House Kills It
Months before the ill fated launch of Healthcare.gov — the website built to give millions of Americans access to affordable health care — government officials were already describing it as something special. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Obamaneycare: Trotskyite Takeover or Big Company Bail out?
It's almost too perfect. Of all the GOP candidates President Barack Obama could possibly face in the 2012 election, he's been matched against Mitt Romney. As presidential opponents tend to be, Romney and Obama are on opposite sides of nearly every policy issue – not least, if only ostensibly, healthcare.
- Login to post comments
Obesity And The AMA
Last week’s announcement by the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) council on science and public health cheered me. It said that the AMA should not designate obesity a disease, because doing so was unlikely to improve health outcomes and because the most widely utilized obesity metric — the body mass index or BMI — was simplistic and flawed. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Ocean Platform Joins apps.health Marketplace to Help Connect Patients with Healthcare Providers
The Ocean Platform, Canada's leading EMR-integrated digital health suite for patient engagement, is now available on apps.health, a digital health app marketplace and innovation hub from WELL Health. With this release, CognisantMD is also launching a series of powerful new tools and features for OSCAR Pro Electronic Medical Record (EMR) through its enhanced Cloud Connect API integration. Over 13,000 healthcare providers across the country use the Ocean Platform to allow Canadians to securely share health information, update their patient record, and connect with their physicians each day.
- Login to post comments
Office Of The National Coordinator For Health IT Tackles Pressing EHR Issues
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to stimulate the adoption of health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Officials Tackling Backlog At VA
Tim Susengill calls it his “in-the-cracks letter.” He sends it to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever a local veteran spends more than a year waiting for a response to a medical claim. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Ohio Dept. Of Insurance: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88 Percent
Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. [But...] Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent”.... Read More »
- Login to post comments