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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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As Vermont Goes Single Payer, So Goes The Nation?
Three years ago, Peter Shumlin, the governor of Vermont, signed a bill creating Green Mountain Care: a single-payer system in which, if all goes according to plan, the state will regulate doctors’ fees and cover Vermonters’ medical bills.
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Bracing For A Battle, Vermont Passes GMO Labeling Bill
The Green Mountain State is poised to become the first to require food companies to label products containing genetically modified ingredients. Read More »
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CGI To Build Vermont's HIX
Vermont has contracted with global IT firm CGI to build the infrastructure for Vermont Health Connect, the state’s health insurance exchange. Read More »
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Creative Corner: How Kenyans Helped Vermonters Connect With Sun Power
If there were any doubt about this being the era of inter-connectedness for social movements and businesses alike, think again. Read More »
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Data Management for Large-scale COVID-19 Immunization: This is all not as simple as it seems
There is a global race for the development of a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Finding a vaccine that works and receives approval is only part of the process. There are a series of other steps that need to be taken so that the vaccine can be delivered. These include the mass production of the vaccine, shipment, administration and record-keeping. This may be even more complex as there may be several vaccines. In this article we review some of these issues with a particular focus on the United States.
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EHR Interoperability a Source of Pain and Debate in Vermont
The lack of interoperability stems from innovation outpacing standardization. Because of the lack of proper guidance from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, which is charged with providing specifications for health information technology (IT), and other federal agencies during the earliest phases of EHR implementation, it is likely that Vermont isn’t the only state suffering these growing pains.
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Group Advocates For Single-Payer System Over HIX
Even as the Affordable Care Act is in its nascent stages, some states are already looking toward 2017 when they can request waivers to opt out of the healthcare exchanges. And a small, but persistent, movement has popped up toward a single payer system as an alternative to participating in the exchanges.
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How A Simple New Tool Helps Doctors Care For Patients -- After They Leave The Office
We live in an increasingly connected world, but patients who receive treatment from multiple doctors and healthcare systems still face a lack of coordination in their care, which can put their health outcomes at risk. PatientPing is working to help doctors collaborate and create a more consistent experience for patients with simple technology that connects healthcare providers across facilities, systems and geographies...
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Researcher Sounds Alarm On State Health Exchange Security
Several state healthcare exchanges established as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) appear buggy and easy to attack, a security researcher warned this week. Read More »
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Single-Payer Proponents Take To The Hill
Advocates for a single-payer “Medicare for all” health system are fanning out across Capitol Hill this week, lobbying members of Congress.
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Syrup-Makers Go High-Tech With Wireless Monitoring
Maple syrup production has come a long way from metal buckets hung on trees, but even high-tech operations have had to rely on old-fashioned foot patrols to fix a common problem — leaks. The tubes that draw sap from trees straight to sugar houses often get pulled down or bent by falling limbs or chewed by critters, meaning sugar-makers spend hours and sometimes days stomping through snowy woods to find and fix problems — a big time-waster in a sugaring season that lasts just a few weeks.
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Vermont Takes Unprecedented Step to Coordinate Health Care Delivery by Launching a Disruptive Information Sharing Technology with Adoption of PatientPing
The State of Vermont is set to be the first in the nation to announce state-sponsored use of groundbreaking health information technology, PatientPing – taking historic action in remedying the trillion-dollar deficit caused partly by the fragmentation of the American health care system. On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, at Vermont Blueprint for Health 2016 in Burlington, VT, PatientPing Founder & CEO Jay Desai, state officials and health care representatives will publicly announce the adoption of PatientPing across in-state health care providers...
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Vermont's HIX As A Path To Single Payer
Vermont health officials have a challenging task explaining to consumers the details and benefits of the state health insurance exchange without being able to say much about how insurance and healthcare will (or will not) change in 2017, when the state is set to transition to a single payer system. Read More »
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