healthcare reform

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Health Care (Insurance) Reform Upheld, but Concentration and Abuse of Power Remain Largely Unaddressed

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | June 28, 2012

Numerous media reports say that the US Supreme Court has upheld the massive US health care "reform" law...In my humble opinion, the law will likely increase acess to commercial health care insurance, although will likely not reduce the expense of such insurance, or address the misbehavior of many large insurance companies... Read More »

Health IT Implementation And The Importance Of Data Liquidity

Mike Behrmann | Segue Technologies | June 19, 2013

We’ve all heard the latest buzz words: big data, data visualization, data integrity. The prevalence of these terms in Health IT circles are evidence that Healthcare organizations are faced with immense amounts of data, and their “buzz” status is more than enough warning that facing data challenges is an imminent prospect. [...] Read More »

Health Reform’s Problems Run Deeper Than A Glitchy Website

Philip Caper | Bangor Daily News | November 14, 2013

Serious problems with the websites created by the Affordable Care Act continue, and probably will for a long time. Although frantic efforts at incrementally improving them are being made by the Obama administration, and some sites are working better than others, they are a long way from working well. Read More »

Health-Care Reform Creates Boon For Tech Startups

Arlene Weintraub | Entrepreneur | March 11, 2013

In spring 2009, tech entrepreneur Neil Smiley founded Loopback Analytics, a Dallas company that markets software to help hospitals reduce the probability that patients will suffer complications and have to be readmitted. Read More »

Health-Tech Incubators See Influx Of Startups

Arlene Weintraub | Entrepreneur | March 14, 2013

When Seth Freedman co-founded IntelligentM in December 2011, he was confident of the appeal of his company's product -- an electronic bracelet that keeps track of hand washing among health workers so hospitals can improve hygiene and better control the spread of infections. But [Freedman] lacked the connections to break into the competitive hospital market. Read More »

Healthcare Attorneys: New Business Relationships Will Create New EHR Problems

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | December 19, 2013

The healthcare industry already has experienced several unintended issues related to electronic health records [...]. But as implementation of EHRs begins to mature and providers step up integration in response to health reform, there will be additional unanticipated operational and business problems involving EHRs that will arise. Read More »

Healthcare Emergency: Shortage Of Nurses Will Impact Patient Care : Infographic

Jonathan Govette | Referral MD | August 1, 2013

Healthcare reform is here; this coupled with the aging population of the United States, all evidence points to the extraordinary need of advanced Nurse Leaders for today, and into the future. Currently Registered Nurses make up the largest segment of professional healthcare workers in our nation. However, these nurses are not immune to aging. 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 »

Healthcare Reform To Boost Growth In Telehealth Market By 55 Percent In 2013

Press Release | IHS Inc, InMedica, IMS Research | December 19, 2012

From 2010 to 2011 usage of remote patient monitoring, or telehealth, increased by 22.2 percent as the number of patients enrolled worldwide reached 241,200. However, telehealth device revenues only grew by 5.0 percent from 2010 to 2011; and 18.0 percent from 2011 to 2012. Read More »

Healthcare Uncertainty Reigns Supreme

Ken Congdon | Healthcare Technology Online | November 16, 2012

I usually don’t reference studies conducted exclusively by health IT vendors in my columns. [...] However, I’m breaking this self-imposed rule this week by highlighting data from a recent study conducted by Greenway Medical Technologies titled Healthcare Information Technology: Trends And Transformations. Read More »

HealthCare.gov To Be Run By Connecticut Exchange Leader

Darius Tahir | Modern Healthcare | August 26, 2014

The leader of one of the most successful state-based insurance exchanges will head to Washington to become CEO of the federal marketplace. The CMS named Connecticut's Kevin Counihan to the newly created post on Tuesday...

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Here's How Millennials Could Change Health Care

Jason Hidalgo | Reno Gazette-Journal | February 7, 2016

With a presidential election fast approaching, healthcare is an issue that’s getting plenty of traction on both sides of the political aisle. For Republicans, taking down President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act remains a red meat issue. Republican presidential candidates are also trotting out an ACA repeal as a key incentive for voting a member of the party into the Oval Office. Healthcare has been a key issue in the Democratic debates as well, with Hillary Clinton pushing back on rival Bernie Sanders’ plan for universal health care. Amid all the debate, however, one group could prove to be the wild card...

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HIMSS13: What Will Happen When The Health IT Boom Ends?

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | February 26, 2013

With HIMSS13 less than a week away, much of the news surrounding the annual event centers on new products and services health IT developers and vendors are looking to sell to healthcare organizations and providers with the promise of improving patient care and ostensibly reducing costs... Read More »

Hospital CEOs See Double-Digit Pay Hikes

Jim Doyle | St. Louis Today | June 2, 2013

Trimming medical costs is the latest mantra among hospital executives, government bureaucrats, insurers and benefit managers as they grapple for ways to contain U.S. health care spending. Read More »