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Opinion: Academic Publishing Is Broken

Michael P. Taylor | The Scientist | March 19, 2012

Academic publishers are currently up in arms about the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)—a bill that has the perfectly reasonable goal of making publicly funded research available to the public that funded it. Read More »

Report Outlines IT Challenges And Guidelines For State HIXs

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | September 20, 2012

Along with the financial challenges of creating health insurance exchanges, and some of the political resistence to them, state governments have an enormous amount of IT work to do — perhaps chief among all the tasks is replacing arcane software with IT that can link HIX, Medicaid and CHIP systems, and function like Amazon.com. Read More »

Results Of State Legislatures, Ballot Initiatives Could Spark Conflict With Feds

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | November 7, 2012

American voters considered 174 ballot measures in 38 states Tuesday and shifted the balance of power in several state capitals, in some places potentially setting up a battle between state and federal law. Read More »

States' Medicaid Expansion Fraught With Political Consequences

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 20, 2012

States are facing complex choices about whether to expand Medicaid coverage since it’s their call now and they will not be forced to do so under the health reform law. Read More »

The Outlook For “Obamacare” In Two Maps

Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein | ProPublica | November 8, 2012

It wasn’t just President Barack Obama who won Tuesday. His signature health care plan did as well. But while the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains alive, less clear is how its various mandates will proceed and who will participate. Read More »

Time To Pay The Price Of War

Leila Levinson | Huffington Post | September 21, 2012

Help has been slow to come for members of our military and our veterans in crisis. Nearly 1 million veterans from various wars await a ruling from the Veterans Administration on their claims for disability. The VA estimates that in the next several months, another 1.2 million claims will come in as more troops return and more veterans recognize that they suffer from PTSD...
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Top 10 Medical Research Trends To Watch In 2013

Margaret Anderson | Huffington Post | January 11, 2013

Congress has pushed the date of the "sequester" off another two months, delaying the prospect of automatic 8.2 percent cuts in the budgets of NIH, FDA, and other federal science programs. But a sequester (or other cuts) could still happen. [...] Read More »

Treating Organizational Ills Via Patient-Centered Care

Andrew Ritcheson | Government Health IT | September 6, 2012

To truly deliver “more for less” government health agencies should look to organizational advancements made by another community fraught with complexity, trying to cut costs and improve quality simultaneously — the medical community.
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