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Health Wonk Review: The Turkey Edition
David Harlow at HealthBlawg talks turkey about Gruber and other things health policy related in his fine hosting of this week’s Health Wonk Review.
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Roadmap to replace MU? MY, MY!
By Peggy Salvatore Last week, the eHealth Initiative officially launched its 2020 Roadmap initiative to “enable coordinated efforts by public and private sector organizations to transform care delivery through data exchange and health information technology,” its website states. Its foci: … Continue reading
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Health Wonk Review: The Election Week Edition
Visit Wing of Zock: Academic Medicine in Transformation, home of election week wonkdom.
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The Best Laid Plans…Laid Waste? ONC and CCHIT and the future of health IT
With some fanfare, in 2004, President George W. Bush (Bush, the younger) made the national rollout of health information technology a federal government priority when he established the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT. Dr. David Brailer was … Continue reading
Health Wonk Review: The Falling Leaves Edition
Thank you to Louise Norris of Colorado Health Insurance Insider for hosting this beautiful fall collection of wonkiness. Health Wonk Review
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Ebola and The Chicken Little Syndrome
Ebola is real. No doubt about it. So was 9-11. And so was the anthrax attack. In each case, a real event set off a national wave of panic. After 9-11, the U.S. was locked down, citizens worried about another … Continue reading
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This Week’s Health Wonk Review http://www.joepaduda.com/2014/10/the-election-coming/
Special thanks to Joe Paduda for hosting this week’s wonkery.
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Ebola: Patient Notes on Travel History
by Peggy Salvatore The story about Ebola has been dominating the news, and I didn’t feel any particular need to weigh in on it since there is plenty of information out there. Then a few little bits of information hit … Continue reading
Billy Wynne has posted the “Thank God It’s Recess” edition of Health Wonk Review at Healthcare Lighthouse
Here’s the link to this week’s Health Wonk Review post from Billy Wynne’s Healthcare Lighthouse: http://www.healthcarelighthouse.com/blog/health-wonk-review-t-g-i-r-edition/ Enjoy!
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Apple Hints At Putting The “Meaningful” Into Meaningful Use
What’s so “meaningful” about Meaningful Use anyway? The short answer is, “Today, very little. Tomorrow, everything.” And that is the problem with the meaningful use requirements as they exist. By its very definition, patient data is information that should have … Continue reading
