health insurance

The rocky launch of the Department of Health and Human Services' HealthCare.gov is the most visible evidence at the moment of how hard it is for the federal government to execute major technology projects. But the troubled "Obamacare" IT system—which uses systems that aren't connected in any way to the federal IT infrastructure—is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the government's IT problems. Read More »

On June 14, 2016 a Federal Court ruled that broadband internet is as essential to American as phones, electricity, water and sewer systems and should be available to all Americans as a utility, rather than a luxury that doesn’t need close government supervision. In the United States, public utilities are often natural monopolies because the infrastructure required producing and delivering a product such as electricity or water is very expensive to build and maintain. As a result, they are often government monopolies, or if privately owned, the sectors are specially regulated by a public utilities commission which severely limits the profits for the private utility company and the associated costs passed on to consumers of that utility...

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Regardless of one’s political stance, sometimes it is just plain hard to watch the woes of Obamacare. It’s a bit like watching mixed martial arts fighting – it’s often hard to distinguish the winner from the loser. The technology behind the system has continued to be an open wound, and yesterday it just got worse... Read More »

ZH Healthcare announced their membership and support to Virginia Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. The mission of the VAFCC is to support, strengthen, and advocate for the delivery of quality health care to Virginia’s low-income, uninsured and under insured residents. "We believe that just offering our ZH OpenEMR software is not enough, and want to provide more support in the local area in which ZH Healthcare is based," said Shameem Hameed, Chairman of ZH Healthcare. "We are excited to become a member of VAFCC and look forward to learning more about the needs of the clinics and help and support the mission of VAFCC where we can."
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