New Digital Solutions for Health Care Providers: EMR/ EHR revised

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Study: Health Care Providers to Spend
More on IT

Study: Health Care Providers to Spend
More on IT 06/30/2004 02:46 PM
Fatal medical errors and stronger government support are driving major providers' plans to boost IT budgets by more than 10 percent in the next few years, the Datamonitor report suggests.

Health-Care Vendors, Providers Call for
More HIPAA Help

Health-Care Vendors, Providers Call for
More HIPAA Help 04/09/2004 07:52 PM
Coalition says the government should do more to ease the transition to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

HEALTH CARE:
SIMPLE SOLUTIONS NO ONE WANTS TO
IMPLEMENT

HEALTH CARE:
SIMPLE SOLUTIONS NO ONE WANTS TO
IMPLEMENT 09/21/2004 12:24 PM

Canada has an enviable record of providing universal, quality health care at a reasonable price for the last half a century. But, as in every other country, our health care system is facing several strains: Soaring health care costs, driven by astronomical salaries paid to senior medical practitioners by competing private health-care providers in the US Disproportionally high usage of the health care system by Canada's exploding immigrant population Ageing population needing more health services The answer of US-worshipping Canadian neocons is two-tier health care. Why, cries John Tory, the new leader of the hapless Ontario Conservative party, shouldn't Canadians have "choice" in their health care services? This is classic conservative re-framing of public debate. "Choice" in health care means choice for those who can afford it, which means doctors who want to make obscene amounts of money (including many of the best ones) would work for the higher-paying private-tier system and the rest of us would be stuck with long waits and second-class service, just like we face in every other private sector of the economy. Fortunately, and to the chagrin of the Canadian neocons, the vast majority of Canadian's aren't buying this Orwellian deceit. Recent polls say support for a public, single-class health care system is as high as ever. So what's a civilized country to do to deal with the three great challenges of 21st century health care bulleted above? I recently listened to a talk show featuring the federal Minister of Health, discussing how these problems should be solved. Caller after caller said the same two things: Much of the work done by doctors should be transferred to paraprofessionals and to self-diagnosis and self-treatment. Much more information, expert systems and self-service equipment needs to be provided to enable this. [I spoke to two doctors who said they would love to do this, since the majority of the work they do does not require a licensed professional to do it competently -- but that the lawyers wouldn't let them do it.] There needs to be a massive shift in the health care system from treatment to preventative care. When the moderator asked the Minister whether he had learned anything from these recurring messages, he 'summarized' the discussion by saying that better measurement systems were needed to ensure hospitals were operating as efficiently as possible, and that the government was looking into ways to do public-private partnerships without allowing competition or giving up control over pricing and access. The interviewer was incredulous: Had the Minister not heard the two messages that the public had been bombarding him with for the past hour? Of course these things would be considered, he replied, but the first priority was to find ways to increase access without increasing cost. His deafness to these two obvious solutions to the malaise of the system was astonishing. What one listener of this talk show said about neoncons' true motivation for wanting two-tier health care was also telling: "The reason rich politicians want a two class system is that they're embarrassed to have to wait in line for health services the same as 'ordinary' Canadians, when their US business colleagues can jump the queue so easily and have their company write off the extra cost as a business expense. They're also embarrassed that, to jump the queue, they have to fly to the US and pay out of their own pocket". So in fact there is a choice for the very rich to jump the queue: Pay for treatment in the private US system. Is Canada's health care system the best in the world? Far from it. Health care in Canada's cities is much better than in rural areas. The bureaucracy in much of the system (notably the blood collection system and the 'walk-in' clinics) is suffocating, and needlessly so. And because of its zeal to protect jobs in the system, Canada, which ranks first in the world in per-capita patents of medical technology, ranks forty-first in the world in the use of modern medical technology in its hospitals (MRI equipment is as scarce as gold, for example). But it's still an excellent system, and one that a two-class health care system won't improve, at least for 95% of the population. If only the politicians and bureaucrats only had the intelligence and vision to listen to the Wisdom of Crowds and make the two changes (more paraprofessional/self-care, and more prevention instead of treatment) that the public is already starting to make themselves, our system would be the best in the world. Oh -- a word about prescription drug costs: You may have heard that many Americans come up to Canada to buy prescription drugs much cheaper than they can buy them in the US. Now, US municipal and state governments are fighting for the right to buy their drugs from Canada, too (and Kerry wants them to have this right). The funny thing is, the companies selling them are essentially all the same companies, since the Canadian pharmaceutical industry is dominated by the same handful of global corporations as the US industry. Why do these companies charge more in the US than the rest of the world for the same drugs? Not, as the neocons and the pharma industry are telling Americans, because Canadian drugs are inferior (perhaps, it is implied, dangerously so) -- they are the identical drugs. They sell them for higher prices in the US because they can. Drug companies charge as much as the market will bear, and in the bloated US health care system where if you have enough money you can buy anything, the market will bear a lot. In the rest of the world money available for drugs is much less, so to sell their products pharma companies lower prices by 30, 50, even 70%, and still make a good margin. This is a case where globalization threatens to backfire on some of the corporations that most benefit from it. Couldn't happen to a nice bunch of guys.

AHLA - Links to Selected Health Care and
Health Law Sites

AHLA - Links to Selected Health Care and
Health Law Sites 11/10/2003 10:50 PM
AHLA - Links to Selected Health Care and Health Law Sites
http: //www.healthlawyers.org/weblinks/weblinks_health.cfm

American Health Lawyers Association comprehensive set of links to selected healthcare and health law sites.

The Rueckert-Hartman School for Health
Professions, Regis University, Denver,
CO, Announces the Formation of the
Center for Health Care Ethics and
Emerging Technologies

The Rueckert-Hartman School for Health
Professions, Regis University, Denver,
CO, Announces the Formation of the
Center for Health Care Ethics and
Emerging Technologies 06/05/2005 11:58 PM
Under the direction of Dr. Pat Ladewig, Dean, Rueckert-Hartman School for Health Professions, Regis University established the Center for Health Care Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Dr. Mark Meaney, Executive Director, stated that the goals of the Center include the examination of the ethical and social implications of emerging biotechnologies such as nanobiotechnologies, pharmacogenomics, and stem cell research. [PRWEB May 22, 2005]

Revised mental health plan due

Revised mental health plan due 09/07/2004 09:56 PM
The government is making another attempt to introduce new mental health legislation for England and Wales.

GE Bets on Health Care

GE Bets on Health Care 04/13/2004 02:20 PM
Closing a $9.5 billion deal for the U.K.'s Amersham assures a major role for GE Healthcare.

Study: U.S. health care not always the
best

Study: U.S. health care not always the
best 05/04/2004 02:01 PM

Here's to Your (Cheaper) Health Care

Here's to Your (Cheaper) Health Care 09/16/2004 03:27 PM
More Americans are looking to Canada for ideas on fixing the health-care crisis.

More health care have-nots

More health care have-nots 07/01/2004 01:45 PM

Health-Care Opportunity

Health-Care Opportunity 02/11/2004 03:12 PM
Health Net looks like a value-priced managed care company.

The Health Care Implosion

The Health Care Implosion 05/25/2004 01:22 PM

Mercury News: Health costs hurting more small businesses. The cost of health insurance -- ranked the top concern of small businesses since 1986 -- still holds that dubious distinction, a new nationwide survey shows. But the percentage of firms affected by those costs has grown substantially.

The health care system, or at least the insurance system through which our health-care dollars flow, is in a slow-motion collapse. This story is just one more data point. Sooner or later, we'll have to make a choice. Should the U.S. go to national health care, as every single other industrialized nation provides for its citizens? Or should we go to a totally free-market system -- not the bogus pretense of one we have now -- that leaves millions without care of any kind? Or something else? The insurance industry is systematically excluding people who will someday need care -- shifting costs wherever possible to taxpayers. This may be rational capitalism, but it's lousy public policy. I'm working on some columns on this topic. Let me know what you think.

Health care conundrum

Health care conundrum 06/20/2004 03:53 AM
Boston Globe Jun 20 2004 7:13AM GMT

World Health Care Congress

World Health Care Congress 01/25/2004 11:41 AM
I'm in DC in a hotel with a nice view of the J. Edgar Hoover building. Facilitating a Socialtext Eventspace for the World Health Care Congress. The World Health Care Congress is the first focused and inclusive conference to determine...

Kerry Focuses on Health Care (AP)

Kerry Focuses on Health Care (AP) 05/11/2004 02:10 AM
AP - Democrat John Kerry is focusing on health care reform in a very complex environment, one complicated by the furor at home and abroad over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers.

Health care gets more high-tech

Health care gets more high-tech 04/10/2005 12:54 PM
Chicago Tribune Apr 10 2005 2:26PM GMT

America's Health Care Mess

America's Health Care Mess 07/14/2004 03:30 PM
Another chapter in the health care meltdown: Sometime in the next few weeks, barring a surprising turn of events, the state of California will formally approve the merger of two health insurance giants. An Indiana company called Anthem will acquire WellPoint Health Networks, the Southern California outfit that owns Blue Cross of California, for about $16.4 billion. The deal has drawn harsh criticism for many reasons. Not least is the display of raw greed by the insider executives who stand to collect somewhere between $200 million and $600 million in payouts after the buyout is concluded. More...

XP SP2 puts the squeeze on health care

XP SP2 puts the squeeze on health care 08/10/2004 09:44 PM
You think IBM has problems? How about being a hospital dependent upon devices that run Windows? They want to have the latest Windows security patches installed, but how can they when the device manufacturers haven't certified that their products run...

IBM chalks up two health care wins

IBM chalks up two health care wins 08/18/2004 06:40 PM
The deals with a university medical center and a California health care provider come two weeks after a win with the Mayo Clinic.

"lgf: Kerry: Lying About Health Care"

"lgf: Kerry: Lying About Health Care" 08/22/2004 04:11 AM

Health Care IT Czar Speaks

Health Care IT Czar Speaks 05/19/2004 02:52 PM
On the job only a few days, Dr. David Brailer made his first major speech to attendees of an industry conference entitled "Toward Electronic Patient Records" in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. this morning.

Wi-Fi’s greatest challenges lie in
relationship between wholesale and
retail providers and the ability to
provide adequate billing and customer
care support

Wi-Fi’s greatest challenges lie in
relationship between wholesale and
retail providers and the ability to
provide adequate billing and customer
care support 07/14/2004 03:35 AM
[PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]

Canada Looks for Ways to Fix Its Health
Care System

Canada Looks for Ways to Fix Its Health
Care System 09/12/2004 03:10 AM
Polls indicate that public confidence in Canada's health insurance system is eroding, although politicians remain reticent to privatize services.

Saddam Hussein, an example for health
care reform

Saddam Hussein, an example for health
care reform 03/17/2005 03:24 AM

Over breakfast at a favorite little French cafe in Harvard Square today a friend who is getting a master's in Public Health at Harvard mentioned that under Saddam Hussein Iraq's entire health care system had a budget of $18 million and that under U.S. occupation this has subsequently grown to $1.8 billion.  How well did Saddam do with his $18 mil?  http: //www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html shows Iraqi life expectancy at birth to be 68 years versus the U.S.'s 77 years. Those extra 9 years are nice, of course, but they come at a cost of about $1.9 trillion per year or 100,000 times Saddam's budget.

Health care system a national tragedy

Health care system a national tragedy 07/14/2004 07:00 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 14 2004 10:01AM GMT

Briefly: IBM chalks up two health care
wins

Briefly: IBM chalks up two health care
wins 08/18/2004 06:40 PM
roundup Plus: Vonage users dial 311 for city info...Mozilla makes Japanese push...Macromedia offers Flash video tool.

Clinton Counts Health Care Among
Failures (AP)

Clinton Counts Health Care Among
Failures (AP) 06/20/2004 07:06 PM
AP - For Bill Clinton, his greatest failures as president have nothing to do with the scandal over his affair with a White House intern. "I'm sorry on the home front that we didn't get health care and that we didn't reform Social Security," the former president told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday.

Canada to boost Inuit health care

Canada to boost Inuit health care 09/13/2004 09:45 PM
Prime Minister Paul Martin announces plans to improve health care for Canada's indigenous people.

Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
with IT

Renaissance Health Improves Patient Care
with IT 09/16/2004 09:16 PM
The small physician practice is working with Greenway Medical Technologies, a small IT company funded by doctors, to help serve patients' diverse needs.

Health-Care Costs' Slow Rise

Health-Care Costs' Slow Rise 02/19/2004 08:07 AM
Health-care costs remain a growing problem for many U.S. employers and their employees.

VA Health Care Faces Wave of Returning
GIs (AP)

VA Health Care Faces Wave of Returning
GIs (AP) 05/16/2004 08:57 PM
AP - More than 20,000 soldiers have sought care from the Veterans Affairs Department since returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. With thousands more expected to seek benefits and health care, the VA faces its biggest challenge since the early 1990s.

Kerry releases health care study

Kerry releases health care study 05/10/2004 02:41 PM

Effort to Fix Health Care Reveals Some
Critics

Effort to Fix Health Care Reveals Some
Critics 08/10/2004 11:05 PM
Some doctors are critical of a new program in Washington state that has lowered costs by assigning nurses and creating electronic patient records.

Wide U.S. Inquiry Into Purchasing for
Health Care

Wide U.S. Inquiry Into Purchasing for
Health Care 08/20/2004 11:43 PM
The case appears to be focused on whether hospitals are fraudulently overcharging Medicare and other programs for goods.

SBC workers start strike over health
care

SBC workers start strike over health
care 05/21/2004 02:33 PM

Growth in Health Care Spending Again
Drops (AP)

Growth in Health Care Spending Again
Drops (AP) 06/09/2004 07:36 AM
AP - The rate of growth in health care spending fell for the second year in a row in 2003 as demand for health services dropped because workers were forced to pick up more of the tab for their care and a surge from a change in managed care policies ebbed.

Health Care Premiums Jump 11.2 Percent
(AP)

Health Care Premiums Jump 11.2 Percent
(AP) 09/09/2004 09:08 AM
AP - Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study.

Schwarzenegger Budget Denies Some Health
Care

Schwarzenegger Budget Denies Some Health
Care 01/17/2004 10:38 PM
Governor Schwarzenegger has proposed capping enrollment in Healthy Families, a state-federal health insurance program for the near-poor, at the current level.

Rush for Colonoscopies Taxes Health Care
(AP)

Rush for Colonoscopies Taxes Health Care
(AP) 08/01/2004 05:16 AM
AP - Recommendations from medical specialists that healthy adults be screened for colon cancer has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people seeking colonoscopies, producing long waits for the test and straining hospital resources.
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