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Reform is Historic; Price Tag Could be, Too
October 20, 2009 5:32 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from David St. Clair, founder and CEO of MEDecision, a provider of collaborative health care management solutions. I felt the health care reform news out of Washington last week was decidedly mixed. For those of us who have advocated Read More...
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Whose Numbers Would You Trust?
October 14, 2009 5:25 PM by Frank Irving
As the U.S. Senate attempts to merge bills from its Finance and Health committees, considerable controversy surrounds the data being used to support -- or detract from -- proposed measures. For example, in a report prepared for America's Health Insurance Read More...
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Get Ready for a More Aggressive OSHA
September 30, 2009 4:10 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by James A. Lastowka, a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in Washington, D.C., and a member of the firm's OSHA, MSHA & Catastrophe Response Group. The Obama administration's "new OSHA" has a simple message Read More...
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'More is Better' Only Applies to Technology
September 21, 2009 11:28 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Andrew Schuyler, chief medical officer at MEDecision. In a recent article on the San Francisco Chronicle 's Web site, Dr. Deepak Chopra speculates that a lot of what's wrong with health care today can be attributed to the false notion Read More...
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Health Care Reform
September 8, 2009 12:10 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Ward Keever, executive director of executive services for CTG HealthCare Solutions. Mr. Keever serves on ADVANCE's editorial advisory board. The hot topic for this summer has been health care reform. It has consumed our Congress as Read More...
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Patient Safety: Getting the Name Wrong May be Fatal
August 13, 2009 10:48 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Dr. Bruce Lambert, University of Illinois at Chicago professor, Department of Pharmacy Administration, and president, Pharm I. R., Inc.; and Dr. Leonard A Shaefer, IBM chief scientist, Global Name Recognition After taking Flomax, used Read More...
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President Spends a Third of His Time on Health Care
July 29, 2009 12:12 PM by Frank Irving
There's no denying the importance of health care reform within President Barack Obama's agenda. In a July 28 interview with Time magazine's Karen Tumulty, the president said that in the last two to three weeks, he's been spending at least a third of his Read More...
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What Women Need
June 23, 2009 4:20 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Sabrina Corlette, director of health policy programs for the National Partnership for Women & Families In the halls of Congress, in the media, in the coffee shops and restaurants of Washington, D.C. -- health care reform is dominating Read More...
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Health Care Reform: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
May 22, 2009 10:48 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Nancy Nager, RN, BSN, MSN, president of Specialized Billing Services, Inc. Medical billing is about to get a lot more complicated. If your medical practice hasn't kept pace with new billing requirements, or if you're bogged down by Read More...
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Flexible Accreditation: The Politically Acceptable Key to Accountability — and Interoperability
May 4, 2009 11:09 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards-development and accreditation organization. Information technology has been mature enough to transform Read More...
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E-prescribers Pass 100,000 Milestone
April 24, 2009 1:46 PM by Frank Irving
Surecripts, operator of the nation's largest electronic prescribing network, reported on April 22 that more than 100,000 prescribers are now routing prescriptions electronically in the United States. Surescripts made the announcement in conjunction with Read More...
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Keeping Digital Medical Records Secure
April 17, 2009 4:27 PM by Frank Irving
By now, just about everyone in the industry knows that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)'s provisions include more than $20 billion in funding for technology investments by health care organizations. However, some of the deeper implications Read More...
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Will the Weight of EMRs Break IT?
April 9, 2009 4:53 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Alex Adamopoulos, executive vice president and COO of Exigen Services Pulling together as a nation to overhaul an aging, often paper-based medical records system is long overdue. We can all agree it will create jobs, pump money into Read More...
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For EHR Implementation, the Time to Act is Now
March 26, 2009 2:37 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Thomas L. Pettibone, founder and managing partner of Transition Partners. President Obama's economic recovery package allows for billions of dollars for health care IT investment. As the recovery package begins to be distributed, Read More...
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EHR Rework Ahead
March 25, 2009 11:27 AM by Frank Irving
A large majority of readers -- 65 percent -- who answered ADVANCE 's online opinion poll during the past month said they need to rework their existing EHR plans in light of the HIT provisions of the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Read More...
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