How about this: in Harvard Business Review, two leaders at Johns Hopkins suggested that hospitals could learn something about buying equipment from -- drum roll, please -- the airline industry. You don't often find many people defending airlines these days, much less holding them up as good examples of anything (except, perhaps, about what not to do, what with overbooking, cramped leg space, plenty of add-on fees, and, of course, dragging paying passengers off planes). That their recommendations make sense probably says more, though, about how poorly health care often does things than how well airlines do...
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Fed Health IT Spending: $6.5 Billion By 2016
Nicole Lewis | Information Week | December 28, 2011
Federal health IT spending will increase from $4.5 billion in 2011 to $6.5 billion in 2016, which represents a compound annual growth rate of 7.5%, according to a GovWin IQ research study released by Deltek.
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Federal Spending Bill Expands Research Funding With Open Access Mandate, Restores IMLS Funding
Ian Chant | Library Journal | January 23, 2014
The omnibus spending bill signed into law by President Obama on January 17 has plenty of wrinkles and details, but one of them is a change that expands the number of federal agencies operating under a mandate to make research they fund available to the public after one year. Read More »
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Feds Postpone Bid To Govern Health IT Network
Ken Terry | InformationWeek | September 10, 2012
Bowing to widespread industry objections to its proposals for governing the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has tabled the project, at least for now. Read More »
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Feds Release Latest Version Of Connect
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | February 13, 2013
The federal government has released its latest version of the open source Connect software platform for advanced health information exchange. Read More »
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Feds Tout Blue Button, Push Patient Engagement
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | September 10, 2012
Pushing the Blue Button was what a parade of government and private-sector health information technology leaders did—often and with gusto—during a series of panel discussions in Washington to kick off Health IT Week. Read More »
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Fewer Certified EHRs For Stage 2 May Pose Problems For Hospitals, Doc Practices
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | September 25, 2013
There is growing concern that far fewer software developers have certified electronic health-record systems for use by healthcare providers under federal Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements than under Stage 1. Read More »
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For Many, Obama's Promise Of Health Care Choice Does Not Ring True
Laura Koran | CNN | October 31, 2013
In her grilling on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reiterated a frequent assertion in the Obamacare sales pitch --- consumers have options when shopping for insurance plans on the health care exchanges.
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Former FDA Employees Sue Agency, Allege Email Surveillance
Caitlin Fairchild | NextGov | January 30, 2012
Six former employees filed suit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Food and Drug Administration alleging the agency monitored their personal emails warning Congress that risky medical devices had been approved, The Washington Post has reported.
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Frank Baitman Takes Over as HHS CIO
Staff | Federal News Radio | March 12, 2012
Frank Baitman is the new chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. John Teeter, the HHS deputy CIO, confirmed Baitman started in mid-February. "We are getting him up to speed and in motion at HHS and I'm sure he'll do a fantastic job," Teeter said. Read More »
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From The Start, Signs Of Trouble At Health Portal
Robert Pear, Sharon LaFraniere and Ian Austen | New York Times | October 12, 2013
In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience,” he told them. Read More »
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GAO Comes Down On Meaningful Use Program
Bernie Monegain | Government Health IT | March 12, 2014
The Government Accountability Office has recently raised an alarm that the meaningful use incentive program might not be all that it’s cracked up to be.
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GAO Hits EHR Incentive Program Hard
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | March 7, 2014
The GAO recently took a swipe at the government's Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program, saying it lacked strategy and called for action to establish a strategy in order to achieve its goals, especially those aimed at improving care.
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Give Us Our Damn Lab Results!!
Alice Leiter and Devon McGraw | The Health Care Blog | September 15, 2013
Two years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed regulations that would allow patients to obtain their clinical lab test results directly from the lab, rather than having to wait to receive the results from their health care provider. CDT and other consumer groups enthusiastically supported this proposed rule at the time of its release. Read More »
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Good Enough For Government Work? The Contractors Building Obamacare
Bill Allison | Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group | October 9, 2013
[...As] head-scratching continues about how a famously web-savvy administration could have flubbed its Internet homework so badly, an examination by the Sunlight Foundation shows the administration turned the task of building its futuristic new health care technology planning and programming over to legacy contractors with deep political pockets. Read More »
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Good Ideas From Unexpected Places: Thinking Creatively for Healthcare Innovation
By Kim Bellard | June 20, 2017
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