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Reform is Historic; Price Tag Could be, Too
October 20, 2009 5:32 PM
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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
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Whose Numbers Would You Trust?
October 14, 2009 5:25 PM
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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
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Get Ready for a More Aggressive OSHA
September 30, 2009 4:10 PM
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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
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'More is Better' Only Applies to Technology
September 21, 2009 11:28 AM
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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
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Health Care Reform
September 8, 2009 12:10 PM
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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
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Patient Safety: Getting the Name Wrong May be Fatal
August 13, 2009 10:48 AM
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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
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President Spends a Third of His Time on Health Care
July 29, 2009 12:12 PM
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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
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What Women Need
June 23, 2009 4:20 PM
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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
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Health Care Reform: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
May 22, 2009 10:48 AM
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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
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Flexible Accreditation: The Politically Acceptable Key to Accountability — and Interoperability
May 4, 2009 11:09 AM
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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
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Keeping Digital Medical Records Secure
April 17, 2009 4:27 PM
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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
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EHR Rework Ahead
March 25, 2009 11:27 AM
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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
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Change Can’t Happen with Technology Alone
March 3, 2009 11:39 AM
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Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Michael L. Cowan, MD, chief medical officer at BearingPoint and former surgeon general of the U.S. Navy It's official. The economic recovery package has been signed and $19 billion is marked for health information technology. But,
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Putting Information at the Center of Smarter Health Care
February 19, 2009 1:49 PM
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Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Wayne Janzen, Executive Information Agenda Consultant for Global Government and Health Care, IBM Health care organizations have made significant investments in IT over the years to improve both patient care and business processes.
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Thinking Beyond EHRs
February 9, 2009 12:22 PM
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Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Ned Moore, CEO and co-founder, Portico Systems, Inc. With the passage of the Obama economic stimulus package by the House of Representatives, now in Senate review, there has been a lot of discussion about what the $20 billion slated
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