Health

Half of Consumers Think Health Care Spending is Wasted

by Admin 08.26.2011

We appear to have “bent the curve” in health care spending last year; national health spending grew at a historically unprecedented low of  3.9%. That’s including all national health expenditures — private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and out-of-pocket expenses. You would think this was a good thing, right? But according to Deloitte’s new survey, not [...]

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Rock Health Makes Another Stab at Health Care Reform

by Admin 07.28.2011

What are the odds that I would find myself in a room with two other women who  also worked at Intel and were passionate about health care?  I thought maybe a million-to-one until I met Halle Tecco and Leslie Zeigler at Rock Health. They are truly star power. It gets better from there. Rock Health is a [...]

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Why You Will Soon Get Access to Your Health Information

by Admin 01.11.2010

A few years ago, my partners in AHITA.org ( a non-profit organized to help providers implement EHRs)  and I implemented an electronic health record in a physician practice. Along the way, we evaluated every major product and discussed with the physicians in the practice what they needed and how to examine their workflows to automate.  [...]

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British Doctors and Patients Refute Lies About NHS

by Admin 09.14.2009

Dear Senator Kerry, Your reported call for “lies” about health care reform to be refuted is essential and requires an urgent response. To that end, may we – British health professionals and patients – respectfully expose those “lies” which are about our National Health Service, a service which our experience shows to work successfully for [...]

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