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  • Care Coordination: Core Competency for Accountable Care

    (Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Jordan Battani, managing director of CSC's Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices) Healthcare reform in the U.S. is rapidly moving in the direction of making providers more accountable for both cost and quality performance. The term ''accountable care'' is used to describe the new ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on March 14, 2013
  • HHS Launches HealthCare.gov on Facebook

    On Sept. 27, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the launch of HealthCare.gov on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Healthcare.gov. ''HealthCare.gov on Facebook offers Facebook users a new tool to understand and stay informed about the Affordable Care Act,'' said Sebelius. ''This new page is another resource that people ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on September 29, 2010
  • Health Care Reform: What It Means for HIM

    After scores of debate, health care reform has finally passed. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law today, launching a landmark overhaul of the health care system. Great-what's it mean for you? I had the same question, so I trolled around some articles and analyses on the lookout for measures that could affect the HIM ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on March 23, 2010
  • HIT Work Group Presenter Wants Your Help

    I first heard about Dave deBronkart, aka ''e-patient Dave'' about a year ago when I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia, and I've been following him ever since (literally-the man's all over Twitter). He's one of the most vocal proponents of getting patients more involved in their care, and the folks in Washington have taken notice. He's become a de ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on February 18, 2010
  • Mammography and the Right to Choose

    (Editor's note: This is a guest blog written by Valerie M. Chapman, RN, MSN, a pediatric nurse for 25 years. She is a 3-year breast cancer survivor and lives in Medford, NJ, with her husband and two children.) I am a wife, a mother of two awesome kids, a daughter, a sister, and a nurse. I am also a  survivor. At the age of 43 a ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on November 20, 2009
  • Health Care Reform: What Women Need

    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 the conversation, and for good reason. We have an enormous opportunity, and a small ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIM (Weblog) on July 22, 2009