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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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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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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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Change Can’t Happen with Technology Alone
March 3, 2009 11:39 AM by 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, Read More...
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Putting Information at the Center of Smarter Health Care
February 19, 2009 1:49 PM by 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. Read More...
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Thinking Beyond EHRs
February 9, 2009 12:22 PM by 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 Read More...
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Invited, but Unexpected
December 18, 2008 8:36 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Cheryl McEvoy, editorial assistant for ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals . Obama's transition team has extended an open invitation to all Americans to participate in community discussions about health care reform over Read More...
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New Blog
December 10, 2008 3:37 PM by Frank Irving
With less than six weeks remaining until President-elect Obama's inauguration, this blog's coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign will transition to a new blog titled "The Politics of Health Care." The new blog will be dedicated to coverage of health Read More...
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Uncommitted Voters Give Obama the Edge in Second Debate
October 8, 2008 10:47 AM by Frank Irving
Following last night's nationally televised square-off between Barack Obama and John McCain in Nashville, CBS News released results of what it described as "a scientifically representative poll of uncommitted voters' reaction to the presidential debate." Read More...
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Health Care Figures Among Obama's Promises
August 29, 2008 11:09 AM by Frank Irving
In accepting the Democratic presidential nomination last night in Denver, Barack Obama spelled out the components of what he called "the promise of America," the idea that "we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation." Read More...
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McCain's Skin Cancer History
July 30, 2008 10:15 AM by Frank Irving
Michael Yardley, chair of public affairs at the Mayo Clinic, issued the following statement on July 29 regarding a skin biopsy performed on Republican presidential candidate John McCain: "Senator McCain visited the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, Read More...
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Clinton Pledges 'Full Support" for Obama
June 10, 2008 6:15 PM by Frank Irving
In a speech in Washington June 7, Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and congratulated Barack Obama on his hard-fought victory. "I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him," Clinton Read More...
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Humor at the Cabinet Level
May 21, 2008 8:05 AM by Frank Irving
HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt prefaced his keynote address at the 2008 World Health Care Congress in Washington last month with an amusing anecdote. Click the video player below to watch him recap a “Centenarian Day” encounter during his governorship Read More...
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McCain Plan Deemed 'Most Feasible'
May 9, 2008 3:32 PM by Frank Irving
According to those who responded to ADVANCE 's most recent Opinion Poll, posted April 28 through May 9, John McCain's health plan presents the most feasible solution among the proposals espoused by three main candidates for president. As of this posting, Read More...
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Video Clips from Each Camp
May 7, 2008 7:30 PM by Frank Irving
Advisors to the Obama, McCain and Clinton campaigns participated in a panel discussion titled "The Presidential Health Care Agenda" at the World Health Care Congress April 21 in Washington. ADVANCE attended the session and captured video highlights from Read More...
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