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GSA Seeks Governmentwide Mobile Device Management Contracts

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | February 8, 2013

The General Services Administration is seeking governmentwide contracts with vendors who can ensure the security of federal employees’ smartphones and tablets and the applications that run on them, solicitation documents show. Read More »

Health Care’s Road To Ruin

Elisabeth Rosenthal | New York Times | December 21, 2013

HAVING spent the last year reporting for a series of articles on the high cost of American medicine, I’ve heard it all. [...] As of Jan. 1, the Affordable Care Act promises for the first time to deliver the possibility of meaningful health insurance to every American. But where does that leave the United States in terms of affordable care? Read More »

Health Chaos Ahead

David Brooks | New York Times | April 25, 2013

It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. Read More »

Healthcare Isn't A Free Market, It's A Giant Economic Scam

Mike Masnick | Techdirt | February 22, 2013

You hear stories about crazy medical bills, but what very few people realize is that the reality of hospital bills can often be orders of magnitude more crazy than what most people expect. [...] Stephen Brill has a very long, but absolutely gripping, detailed analysis of the insanity of medical billing for Time Magazine... Read More »

Healthcare Quality Metrics 'Abysmal,' Senate Panel Hears

Cheryl Clark | HealthLeaders Media | July 2, 2013

Quality experts, including the CEO of the National Quality Forum and a former CMS administrator, caution members of the Senate Finance Committee that healthcare quality measures must be better coordinated to be effective. Read More »

Heart Test Costs Rise As Cardiologists Flock To Hospitals

Alan Bavley | The Kansas City Star | December 29, 2013

It was late in 2009, and Willie Lawrence and the other heart specialists in his practice faced a dilemma. Should they renew their expiring office lease and commit themselves to their independent cardiology practice at Research Medical Center or shut down their business and take the jobs that local hospitals were offering? Medicare helped make the decision for them. Read More »

Heather Joseph On The State Of Open Access: Where Are We, What Still Needs To Be Done?

Richard Poynder | Open and Shut? | July 12, 2013

This is the fourth Q&A in a series exploring the current state of Open Access (OA). On this occasion the questions are answered by Heather Joseph. Read More »

Hoffmann And Jeon On Using ICT For Clean Water In Kibera

Staff Writer | CDDRL News | February 10, 2011

The February 10 Liberation Technology seminar titled, Can ICT Improve Clean Water Delivery Systems in Slums? Lessons from Kibera was led by two Stanford students, Katherine Hoffman, M.A. Candidate in International Policy Studies and Global Health together with Sunny Jeon, PhD candidate in Political Science... Read More »

Hospital Charges Bear Little Relationship To The Quality Of The Care, Study Says

Jordan Rau | The Washington Post | July 22, 2013

It’s well known that the charges hospitals list for surgeries and other procedures bear little resemblance to the actual prices most patients pay. An analysis by Castlight Health, a company that helps employers and workers compare prices, has found that the charges also bear little relationship to the quality of the care. Read More »

Hospital Executives Can Lead Transparency Movement

Karen Cheung-Larivee | FierceHealthFinance | February 15, 2013

Transparency of healthcare costs and outcomes rests on hospital leaders' shoulders.

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How Billionaire "Philanthropy" Is Fueling Inequality And Helping To Destroy The Country

Prashanth Kamalakanthan | Truthout | August 19, 2013

Peter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America “just keeps the existing structure of inequality in place.” At meetings of charitable foundations, he says “you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.” [...] Read More »

How Healthcare.gov Went Wrong

Staff Writer | Department of Better Technology (DOBT) | October 10, 2013

Here at DOBT we talk a lot about How To Fix Procurement, but you don’t hear a lot about why things go wrong. The Healthcare.gov Fiasco is instructive in that it highlights every piece of our procurement process that’s broken. How, with a half-trillion dollar a year spend, could something like this botch even happen? Here’s how: Read More »

How Much Will I Be Charged?

Press Release | UCSF | February 26, 2013

It’s a basic, reasonable question: How much will this cost me? For patients in the emergency room, the answer all too often is a mystery. Read More »

Implementing Insurance Exchanges — Lessons from Europe

Ewout van Ginneken and Katherine Swartz | New England Journal of Medicine | August 23, 2012

State-based health insurance exchanges are a key component of the health care reforms included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Starting in January 2014, each state's exchange will provide a marketplace where individuals and small employers can compare and purchase health plans. The idea is both to expand health insurance coverage and to foster competition among insurers, thereby promoting cost containment. Read More »

In Affordable Smartphones, Firefox OS Shines But Nokia's X Phone Strategy Is Murky

Phil Goldstein | FierceWireless | February 25, 2014

One of the major themes I'm hearing here at the Mobile World Congress trade show is that handset makers across the board are focusing on affordable smartphones. Mozilla and its Firefox OS partners seems to be hitting the mark more than others by aligning the user experience they're delivering with the price points they are setting for the phones. Read More »