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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Washington State To 8,000 Obamacare Enrollees: 'We Goofed On Cost Estimate'
Staff Writer | Government Health IT | November 12, 2013
About 8,000 Washington residents will soon receive letters informing them that the price they are expecting to pay for health insurance purchased on the new online exchange marketplace is incorrect. Read More »
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We Are Number Last
Margalit Gur-Arie | On Health Care Technology | June 23, 2014
The Commonwealth Fund just published its fourth Mirror, Mirror on the Wall study comparing the U.S. health care system with other countries, and as in all previous studies, we ranked as the absolutely worst health care system in the developed world, bar none...
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We Need A Moore’s Law For Medicine
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | September 3, 2013
Technology is the primary cause of our skyrocketing health-care costs. It could also be the cure. Read More »
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We Paid Over $500 Million For The Obamacare Sites And All We Got Was This Lousy 404 [Updated]
Andrew Couts | Digital Trends | October 8, 2013
It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress. Read More »
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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 Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov
James Turner | O'Reily Programming | October 4, 2013
The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage. Read More »
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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 Feds' Push To Share Health Data Means For Patients
Charles Ornstein | NPR | May 9, 2016
Two years ago, when the federal government first released data on how much Medicare paid physicians, the media coverage was widespread. Doctors who earned significant sums were dubbed "Medicare millionaires" and journalists highlighted unusual patterns in how some doctors bill for services. When Medicare released its third round of data last Thursday, the coverage was practically nonexistent. In some ways, that's because data releases from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have become almost routine...
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What Happened At The White House Mental Health Conference?
Kat Dawkins | PsychCentral | June 10, 2013
There is a lot of interest about what the Obama administration had to say about the state of our mental healthcare system and perceptions of mental illness in the United States. Straight from the White House itself, I bring to you highlights of their press release on the Mental Health Conference... Read More »
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What Happened With The HealthCare.Gov Security Breach
Adam Mazmanian | FCW | September 4, 2014
Hackers breached the HealthCare.gov system in July, according to officials at the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. Federal officials had no evidence of information being compromised, and it's unclear if HealthCare.gov was specifically targeted for the trove of personal and financial information on Americans that it contains...
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What If Millennials Start To Hate Obamacare?
Alex Roarty | Nextgov | October 24, 2013
Republicans are searching for an in with Millennials, and they think Obamacare's glitchy rollout is it. Read More »
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What Kind Of Problem Is The ACA Rollout For Liberalism?
Mike Konczal | Next New Deal | October 23, 2013
“This massive IT launch sure came in on time, under budget, and without headaches” is a statement that nobody has ever said. But even controlling for that, Healthcare.gov looks to be having a disastrous launch. Read More »
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What The U.S. Can Learn From Brazil's Healthcare Mess
Olga Khazan | The Atlantic | May 8, 2014
Here’s what it looks like when a sprawling, diverse nation tries to cover everybody....By a lot of measures, Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde—or SUS—has led to huge health gains.
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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’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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