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AMA CEO Calls Digital Products Modern-Day ‘Snake Oil’
When it comes to electronic health record technology, the American Medical Association has been an outspoken critic about what it perceives as the shortcomings of EHRs, voicing the widespread dissatisfaction of the doctors who use the systems. However, the nation’s largest physician group is now taking aim at new and emerging health IT technologies—such as mobile healthcare apps—that it believes are leading to practice disruption...
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Are We Getting Enough Bang For Our Healthcare Buck? Hardly.
The U.S. healthcare system costs each of us about twice as much as those in other wealthy countries. Are we getting our money’s worth? Not by a long shot...
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Changes In The Health Care System Driven By Self-Service And DIY Health
Health care is migrating from the bricks-and-mortar doctor’s office or care clinic to the person him or herself at home and on-the-go–where people live, work, play, and pray. As people take on more do-it-yourself (DIY) approaches to everyday life–investing money on financial services websites, booking airline tickets and hotel rooms online, and securing dinner reservations via OpenTable–many also ask why they can’t have more convenient access to health care, like emailing doctors and looking into lab test results in digital personal health records.
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EHR Business Environment Must Change To Achieve Interoperability
The main challenges for the nation’s health IT interoperability are not technical but business related...
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Forget Obamacare: Vermont Wants To Bring Single Payer To America
"If Vermont gets single-payer health care right, which I believe we will, other states will follow," Vermont Gov. Shumlin predicted in a recent interview. "If we screw it up, it will set back this effort for a long time.
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ObamaCare A Bronze Trap For 1 In 4 Low-Income Insured
In gauging whether ObamaCare exchange policies make health care reasonably affordable, federal enrollment data have been little help. They've offered no clarity on a key metric: the type of policies that households with modest incomes are buying...
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The Sad State of Uncoordinated Care in the U.S.
Care coordination deficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system can be so frustrating that they are (almost) comical. That is a message patient activist Jessica Jacobs aired as she advocated for healthcare operational efficiency improvements and care coordination. Until her death last month, Jacobs blogged and used social media to draw attention to America’s problems with disjointed healthcare. She did this by sharing stories of the numerous system failures she experienced firsthand as a patient with complex care needs...
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We Are Number Last
The Commonwealth Fund just published its fourth Mirror, Mirror on the Wall study comparing the U.S. health care system with other countries, and as in all previous studies, we ranked as the absolutely worst health care system in the developed world, bar none...
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