The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
Investment Platform The Healthymagination Fund draws on capabilities from across GE Healthcare, GE Capital and GE Global Research and has a global footprint. The investment committee is comprised of senior leaders of these groups.
via healthymaginationfund.comExciting new $250mm HIT investment fund launched by [...]
Larry Summers made this point on Meet the Press this morning while defending the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the massive investment made by several federal agencies over the next five years. Sadly, he is not exaggerating at all. What a sad [...]
Telemedicine and Telehealth
Telemedicine
For purposes of Medicaid, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's health. Electronic communication means the use of interactive telecommunications equipment that includes, at a minimum, audio and video equipment permitting two-way, real' [...]
The National Coalition for Health Integration (NCHI) initiative is an ambitious attempt to establish a truly interoperable environment for linking independent health information technology projects around the US through an open framework. With an all-star team [...]
BreakThrough connects mental health professionals with clients through secure video, phone, and web.
We have a mental health epidemicMore than 57 million Americans – one in four adults – have a diagnosed mental illness. Tens of millions more struggle with stress and relationship issues. Institutions such as hospitals, [...]
A new study out the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) suggests that by excluding consumers from the broader implementation of health information technologies, the medical community is marginalizing themselves and prolonging the time it [...]
Link: Telemedicine allows for long-distance diagnoses - The Washington Times.
As mentioned in an earlier post, 4 years ago Telemedicine was in its infancy, perhaps used for monitoring status of patients with pacemakers... Now, according [...]
Readthebill.org is a Sunlight Foundation Project lobbying for a mandatory 72-hour period between the close of debate on a particular piece of legislation and the and the final vote on passage. The project was born out of the frustration felt by nearly all Americans when [...]
I actually think 37 or 38 banks have failed this year. But that is a very small number and of no real concern. I expect we may have several hundred bank failures before this is over and that is not a concern in my opinion. . We experienced hundreds of [...]
The following is an excerpt from the March 16, 2008, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace": 
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai admitted over the weekend that he had not read the Shia Family Law he signed last month, which clearly seems to reintroduce many of the oppressive policies of the previous Taleban government overthrown in [...]
Fox News Sunday featured Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) this past Sunday to discuss the recent outbreak of chaos between the Mexican government of President Filipe Calderon and the country's many large drug cartels. Rep. Lowry stated clearly when asked what she thought to' [...]
Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the Central Bank of China (seen to the right with Hank Paulson), has called for an internationally endorsed shift away from the Dollar as the world's reserve currency "as soon as possible"' [...]
Great blog I just came across for the first time. Fareed Zakaria tops an impressive shortlist of contributors. Check out the PostGlocal Global Power Barometer. 
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Image via CrunchBaseSaturday Night Live couldn't wait until this weekend to release their interpretation of this week's townhall debate between Senators Obama and McCain. It features Chris Parnell and Bill Murray. [...]
I happened upon this fascinating post on time travel and how it has been used and abused by filmakers over the years with little regard for the "one-dimensional" assumption of quantum mechanics. The "one-dimensional" understanding of time never presents information as if something [...]
I have many points to make, each directed at specific arguments (assumptions) articulated in a previous participants argument. However [...]
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Tim Russert passed away Friday while taping the introduction to his weekly broadcast of Meet The Press, unquestionably the most watched and respected hour in all of political television every Sunday morning. He was a' [...]
The University of Illinois football team pulled off the biggest upset in its history with a 28-21 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes, who were the top ranked team in the nation going into the game. Led by their flashy quarterback Juice Williams, the [...]
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