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Oregon Struggles To Clear Health Insurance Exchange's High-Tech Hurdle
Oregon's state-based health law online insurance exchange is still struggling in its quest to sign people up, and officials there are using paper applications to get the job done -- a time-consuming task. Exchanges also make news in Kentucky, California, Mississippi and Washington state. Read More »
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A Small Paper Problem: The Health Exchanges Face An Avalanche Of Paper Applications
When HealthCare.gov and some state-run insurance marketplaces ran into trouble with their websites in October and November, they urged consumers to submit paper applications for coverage. Read More »
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Followup: Medicaid Probably Does Improve Health Outcomes After All
I've now read the new study of the Oregon Medicaid experiment, as well as some additional commentary on it, and I think some of the results are important enough that they deserve a new post, not just updates to the previous post. Read More »
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Girls' Skills Are Needed in Tech
ChickTech is based in Portland but plans to be nationwide by 2016. After interviewing Jennifer Davidson about how ChickTech gets girls involved in tech, I have high hopes it's even sooner. The non-profit targets girls who would never nominate themselves to participate in a tech workshop and who wouldn't dream of a career in tech. Why? Because they've never had someone believe their skills were valuable in that world...
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In The Hospital, A Bad Translation Can Destroy A Life
Translating from one language to another is a tricky business, and when it comes to interpreting between a doctor and patient, the stakes are even higher. Consider the story of 18-year-old baseball player Willie Ramirez. In 1980, Ramirez was taken to a South Florida hospital in a coma, says Helen Eby, a certified medical interpreter in Oregon. "His family apparently used the word 'intoxicado' to talk about this person," she says. "Well, 'intoxicado' in Spanish just means that you ingested something. It could be food; it could be a drug; it could be anything that has made you sick"...
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Is Open Source Software The Answer to Oregon's IT Problems?
When Oregon’s new Chief Information Officer, Alex Pettit,was on our show recently, we asked him what stood out from his move from Oklahoma to the northwest.
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Medicaid Expansion Didn't Yield Big Health Gains In Oregon, Study Says
Although expanding Medicaid coverage to some low-income Oregon residents substantially improved their mental health and reduced the financial strains on them, it didn’t significantly boost their physical health, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More »
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NASCIO Recognizes Outstanding Achievements in State IT: Finalists Announced for 2017 NASCIO State IT Recognition Awards
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has selected 32 finalists across 11 categories for the State IT Recognition Awards. This is the 29th consecutive year NASCIO has honored outstanding information technology achievements in state government through the awards. Projects and initiatives from NASCIO member states, territories, and the District of Columbia were eligible for nomination. NASCIO members served as volunteer judges to review the 100+ submissions, narrowing the nominees down to finalists in each category. From these finalists, a recipient will be announced during an awards dinner at the upcoming NASCIO Annual Conference this October in Austin, Texas...
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Oregon's Health Care Website Is Worse Than Healthcare.gov
Oregon is set to become the first state to switch over to the federal Obamacare exchange. The state exchange, Cover Oregon, has been such a failure that moving to the once broken HealthCare.gov seems preferable to trying to salvage its system.
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OSCON 2013 is a Wrap!
OSCON 2013 wrapped up last week. A good time was had by all. Time to start planning to attend OSCON 2014. It is going to be held next July 20-24, 2014, in Portland, Oregon. Now in its 15th year, O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) is where all of the pieces of the 'open source' puzzle come together for developers, innovators, business people, and investors. Read More »
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Promoting Earthquake Readiness
In Oregon, Washington State and California, an early warning system helps citizens and officials better prepare for and respond to earthquakes. In the early morning hours on August 24, 2014, scientists at UC Berkeley received a “ShakeAlert” – an alarm providing warning of a pending earthquake. Five seconds later, the city of Napa felt a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. That five-second warning was an early success for a broader goal: the creation of an earthquake early warning system that can communicate the size, extent and timing of imminent earthquakes on the West Coast...
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Two States Want To Extend Obamacare Deadline Because Of Glitchy Websites
At least two states are requesting a longer Obamacare enrollment period--and they might get it.
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Western States Consortium (WSC) Pilot of Direct Connect between California & Oregon
Health care providers in California and Oregon are now querying each others’ provider directories and sending interstate Direct messages as a result of the Western States Consortium project. Read More »
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What Oracle’s Botched Obamacare Site Says About the Future of the Web
It’s bad enough that the state of Oregon has paid software giant Oracle over $100 million to build a healthcare exchange site that doesn’t work. But it now appears that Oregon is stuck with Oracle, unable to simply hire another firm to finish the job. It’s the latest setback for the troubled Obamacare rollout, and it provides a classic example of an old-school IT provider lagging behind the new and more effective way of building massive web operations — the open source approach behind mega-scale websites like Google and Facebook. Read More »
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Open Source Bridge 2014
Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. Session tracks are technology agnostic; the conference content is based around shared community experiences and similarities between projects, not differences.
The Open Source Bridge team believes that our role as open source citizens informs our work whether we are conscious of it or not. Open Source Bridge is intended as a call to action to become better citizens, by sharing our knowledge with each other.
Open Source Bridge will take place June 18-21, 2013 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages, and backgrounds to explore how we do our work and share why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Read More »
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