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Healthcare Via Shipping Containers?
Why not? Being classified as prefabricated structures, containers avoid the regulatory hassles associated with floor area rules or land-use agreements that arise in setting up physical infrastructure. Minimalist in design, it can be transported through rail and used in the remotest corner of the country. Read More »
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Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data
Every year, the analyst firm Gartner publishes between 90 and 100 “Hype Cycles” with insight on about 1,900 different technologies. The Hype Cycle above is the one for Emerging Technologies for 2012 (published in August) and shows “Big Data” heading toward the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.” Read More »
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Healthcare's Death Star Thinking vs. Human Centered Design
I missed it when it first came out, but a providential tweet from the always perceptive Steve Downs tipped me to a most interesting article from Jennifer Pahlka with the wonderful title “Death Star Thinking and Government Reform.” The article is not directly related to healthcare, although it does include healthcare examples, but Ms. Pahlka’s central point very much applies to most efforts to reform healthcare: The need to believe that a Death Star-style solution is at hand — that we have analyzed the plans and found the single point of failure — runs deep in our culture.
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HealthCare.gov And The Inevitably Digital Future Of American Governance
The Obamacare blame game is in full swing, and without other news to fill pages and airtime, it’s likely to continue for some time. Attention is shifting from the myriad problems with the official website HealthCare.gov, and toward the health plans that are being canceled, even though President Obama promised that they would not be. Read More »
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HealthCare.gov Can’t Handle Appeals Of Enrollment Errors
Tens of thousands of people who discovered that HealthCare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock: The government cannot yet fix the errors. Read More »
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HealthCare.gov Data Center Crashes
Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance — even as the website suffered yet another setback. Read More »
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Healthcare.gov Launch May Be Too Big To Succeed
What do you get when you design a website by committee? Something that looks a lot like Healthcare.gov, the home page for the federal online insurance exchange. The problems plaguing the site are not only a political black eye or godsend for whichever party is observing the fiasco, but also very much a technical lesson in how not to build such a large complex system. Read More »
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HealthCare.gov Needs Less Tech, More Jugaad
Operators of the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website could take a few hints from Hindu lore and eastern philosophy to fix things, according to two of the architects of the world's most massive national ID system. Read More »
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Healthcare.gov Relaunches, Prepares For ACA Open Enrollment
The Department of Health and Human Services re-launched its site aimed at providing customized insurance policy information to the public, some three months before the open enrollment period mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Currently, HealthCare.gov contains answers to frequently asked policy questions and a 24-hour call center. Read More »
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HealthCare.gov: Technology Failures Are Government Failures
Is HealthCare.gov synonymous with the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s landmark health care reform law? Or at least with the health insurance marketplaces that act introduced and that launched Oct. 1? Read More »
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HealtheConnections RHIO Migrates eHealth Technologies' Image Exchange On Its Mirth HIE Platform
eHealth Technologies, a leader in streamlining transitions of care including, securely delivering electronic diagnostic images to the users of health information exchange (HIE), and HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) of Central New York, have gone live with eHealth Connect(R) Image Exchange integrated with their new, Mirth HIE platform. Read More »
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HealtheConnections RHIO Transitioning HIE Platform To Mirth Corporation
HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) supporting the 1.4 million lives in Central New York, today announced that it is partnering with Mirth Corporation to upgrade and expand its capabilities and reach. Read More »
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Healtheway Convenes Carequality To Take HIE To Next Level
What will it take to ratchet health information exchange up to the next level? The answer pretty much anyone paying attention would fire back: interoperability. Which is not to suggest that will be easy. Read More »
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HealthQx Chosen By TriWest Health Alliance To Help Assure Health Care Quality For Millions Of Veterans
HealthQx has been awarded a five-year contract by TriWest Health Alliance to help direct Veterans to the most appropriate specialists in the TriWest network, which serves veterans in 28 states and territories. To meet TriWest's requirements, HealthQx will employ its CareQx Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. Read More »
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Heart A-Hack
A group of clinicians and developers won NHS Hack Day Oxford with an open source electronic patient record for cardiologists. Read More »
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