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Passage of health reform bill by House Dems cheered, jeered
This weekend the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962, arguably the most controversial and disruptive of the pack of health reform bills moving through Congress. As expected, the bill split health industry stakeholders, with health insurance plans expressing dismay that the legislation had passed. Read more...
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Politics and public health clash in final reform debates
As anyone could have predicted, reform has resulted in some bitter battles over what the U.S. health system should become. Unfortunately, the interest groups involved aren't working from the same playbook, and the clash between medicine and political calculation has never been starker.
On the one hand, you have politicians, who are working to satisfy as many stakeholders as possible. On the other, you have public health and medical experts, who rely on observation and science to draw conclusions, but may give too little thought as to what flies in Dubuque. Unfortunately, the two are on a collision course in this debate. Read more...
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Healthcare IT News
- The message of quality agains eludes political, hospital leaders
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Also Noted
> Tenet Healthcare Corp. has reported a net loss of $3 million for the third quarter of this year, more or less a stall for a company with $2.262 billion in revenues during that period. FierceHealthFinance
> Researchers have come up with a new telemedicine system, based on the Bluetooth standard, which can transfer data from patient monitors to nearby mobile devices at four times the speed of traditional Bluetooth. FierceMobileHealthcare
> Over at our blog Hospital Impact, a hospital CEO speaks about the value of spending on disease prevention rather than treatment, views he says have been influenced by his own experiences as a patient. Blog
> HHS is updating its Connect open-source software toolkit, designed to hook up disparate systems, to help providers meet "meaningful use" standards for EMRs. FierceEMR
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