Many organizations have asked me to comment on the impact of the Trump Presidency on Healthcare and Healthcare IT. I served the Bush administration for 4 years and the Obama administration for 6 years. I know that change in Washington happens incrementally. There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole. What am I doing in Massachusetts? I’m staying the course, continuing my focus on social networking for healthcare, mobile, care management analytics, cloud, and security while leaving the strategic plan/budget as is...
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US Won't Reveal Records On Health Website Security
Jack Gillum | SF Gate | August 21, 2014
After promising not to withhold government information over "speculative or abstract fears," the Obama administration has concluded it will not publicly disclose federal records that could shed light on the security of the government's health care website because doing so could "potentially" allow hackers to break in...
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Vendors Compete to Add EHRs, Provider Data Exchange to Blue Button Initiative
Unknown | U.S. Medicine | September 1, 2011
When VA went live with its Blue Button download format last year, the goal was to give veterans the ability to download their personal-health information directly from their MyHealtheVet account. A new initiative announced this summer will expand that capability to private health-care records. Read More »
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Verizon, WellPoint, CVS, Walgreens Ally With Former Senators To Push Telehealth Policy Reform
Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | February 11, 2014
A cohort of big players in connected health is joining three former senators in pursuit of policy that supports broad use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring. Read More »
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Want To Make A Lot Of Money In Healthcare? Don’t Become A Doctor.
Abby Norman | BHM Healthcare Solutions | May 29, 2014
This week the New York Times ran an article about the top earners in healthcare- and perhaps a surprise to none, doctors did not top that list: administrators did...
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What Are the Real Consequences of ObamaCare?
By Leonard A. Zwelling, MD, MBA | January 10, 2015
If America has anything, it’s a disease care system that focuses on episodic interventions by health care professionals trying to salvage a patient from the ravages of chronic diseases, many of which are self-induced. It’s a system that does not focus on health maintenance, something that really would alter the nature of the country’s well-being. I would argue that using the same money we are spending on this ObamaCare nonsense to teach kids in elementary school how to eat, shop, cook, exercise, not use drugs or tobacco and to have safe sex would probably improve health in the country far more than this bill ever did or will.
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What Does the Trump Presidency Imply for Healthcare and Healthcare IT?
By John D. Halamka, MD | November 16, 2016
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What Would Universal Healthcare Look Like In The U.S.?
Staff Writer | The Real News | December 10, 2013
David U. Himmelstein M.D. is a Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College and a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a medical residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard and practiced primary care internal medicine at the public hospital in Cambridge, MA for 28 years... Read More »
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What You Don't Know About Your Doctor Could Hurt You
Rachel Rabkin Peachman | Consumer Reports | March 29, 2016
Thousands of doctors across the U.S. are on medical probation for reasons including drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and making careless—sometimes deadly—mistakes. But they're still out there practicing. And good luck figuring out who they are. The state medical board's report on Leonard Kurian, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Southern California, tells in stark clinical detail what it says happened to several patients in his care. And it's not easy to read...
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What’s Next in Federal Healthcare Policy? Two Industry Observers Offer Predictions
Mark Hagland | Healthcare Informatics | March 14, 2017
On Monday, March 13, Healthcare Informatics Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland interviewed two healthcare industry observers regarding current developments in federal healthcare policy. Hagland interviewed Jeremy Miller and Miranda Franco just hours before the news broke of the “scoring” of the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the healthcare legislation introduced by Republican leaders of the House of Representatives on March 6, to replace elements of the health insurance provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed by Congress and signed into law in March2010 by President Barack Obama...
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Where’s The Outrage Over Our Failed Health Care System?
Philip Caper | Bangor Daily News | August 15, 2013
For the next few months we’ll be bombarded by messages from the Obama administration urging people, especially young, healthy people, to sign up for insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act. Without them, premiums for that insurance will soon climb to unaffordable levels. Read More »
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Why 99 percent of health care should be angry
Roy Poses | KevinMD.com | October 18, 2011
As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent parallels between the issues it is raising and the issues we have been raising in health care grows. Read More »
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Why Americans Are Drowning In Medical Debt
Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | October 8, 2014
Healthcare is the number-one cause of personal bankruptcy and is responsible for more collections than credit cards...
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Why an MRI Costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
Ezra Klein | The Washington Post | March 3, 2012
There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher.
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Why Cloud Hackers Could Come For Your Health Data Next
Todd Campbell | The Motley Fool | September 14, 2014
The revelation that Community Health Systems (NYSE: CYH ) servers were hacked, resulting in the loss of 4.5 million patient records, and that a server for the Affordable Care Act's healthcare.gov website was breached, puts the issue of healthcare privacy front and center even as industry watchers warn that health care security is far too lax...
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Why Computerized Medical Records Are Bad for Both You and Your Doctor
Samuel Shem | Newsweek | November 1, 2019
We should not click for cash, but for care. We can use the data to benefit the patient-and the medical professionals...The EMR could have been a lifesaver. It still can be. If we get rid of on-screen, for-profit billing, and use electronic screens exclusively for care, we solve a lot of problems. We could create a true national health care system, modeled after our existing two national systems-Medicare/Medicaid and the VA. As in all other national systems, each procedure would cost about the same all over the country. On longitudinal charts showing the health of Americans as they age, a sharp rise in good health suddenly increases at age 65, when Medicare kicks in. Read More »
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