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Living paycheck to paycheck: what it means for health

By on February 14, 2013 in Administrative simplification, Behavioral health, Connected health, FDA, Financial health, Fitness, Food and health, Global Health, Health and Beauty, Health at home, Health care information technology, Health engagement, Health politics, Health Quality, Internet Demographics, Mobile health, Physicians, Uncategorized

While 50% of Americans feel they have a sound financial position, the other half is living paycheck to paycheck. 8% say they can’t even pay for essentials. The second annual Allstate “Life Tracks” Poll finds American adults split between have’s and have not’s, with even the “have’s” feeling less than financially literate. There is an [...]

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The state of health IT in America: thinking about the Bipartisan Policy Center report on health IT

By on February 2, 2012 in Administrative simplification, Affordable Care Act, Connected health, Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Economics, Health politics, Health regulation, HITECH Act, Hospital finance, Hospitals, Internet and Health, Medical technology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Privacy and security, Telehealth, Telemedicine

There are few issue areas within the Beltway of Washington, DC, that have enjoyed more support across the political aisle than health care information technology. In 2004, George Bush asserted that every American would/should have an electronic medical record by 2014. Since then, Democrats and Republicans alike have supported the broad concept of wiring the [...]

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Medicaid, the new-new health plan – is it ready for prime-time?

By on November 29, 2010 in Administrative simplification, Health Economics, Health reform, Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

“The impending Medicaid expansion will be the single biggest change in the program since its inception in 1965,” according to an analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine dated November 24, 2010. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or ACA for short) will newly-insure 32 million Americans through dual strategies of (1) mandating uninsured [...]

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Can health IT transform the U.S. economy? The White House thinks so

By on August 25, 2010 in Administrative simplification, Electronic health records, Health care information technology, Health Economics, Health regulation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, aka ‘stimulus funds’) is investing $100 billion worth of U.S. taxpayer dollars in projects meant to transform the American economy. $20-some billion of these funds are being earmarked for health information technology, which the White House sees as part of a “platform for private sector innovation” in a report [...]

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Meaningful use: mandates, menus and morality

By on July 14, 2010 in Administrative simplification, Health care information technology, Health reform, Health regulation, Privacy and security, Public health

“We are only as good in treating patients as the information we have,” opined Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology in the Department of Health and Human Services, during yesterday’s launch of the new regulations on the meaningful use (MU) of health information technology. In the health care world, yesterday featured a star-studded line-up (live [...]

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