The Senate HELP Committee has released for feedback a staff discussion draft of the committee’s bipartisan legislation to improve health information technology, including electronic health records. The draft legislation is the result of a biparti…
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari tipped me off to the interesting video below: " Dr. Karen DeSalvo at the 2012 ONC Annual Meeting Below is a note from Secretary Sebelius to HHS staff, followed by a note from Dr. Reider to ONC staff. Colleagues, I would l…
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Over ten years ago Intel launched the Proactive Health Research Project , a multiyear effort to bring ubiquitous computing to eldercare. Since that time Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and now general manager of the Health Strategy & Solutions Gro…
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Steven Brill, Giovanni Colella, M.D., and Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. Ph.D. examined how to lower the high price of healthcare at a recent Center for American Progress event, "The High Price of Health Care" on March 13, 2013. Steve Brill's …
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Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have voted by 257-167, with 172 Democratic votes and only 85 Republicans voting in favor, to approve the previously Senate-passed bill that will avert the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic…
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