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- States go it alone in health care reform
- California and New York are both trying to cut their states' health care costs, and their stories provide a cautionary tale in the national debate. In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to push through a grand compromise on reform, but it was finally killed by both parties...
- Tags: Medicaid, Media, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT FailureEDS is toast in Seattle150 EDS consultants are to be turned lose from the Seattle Office in August. Let me give a theory. In government, just as in business, there are core competencies. Where many will argue that IT is a core competency of every on...
- Tags: Government, HEALTHCARE, Strategy, Outsourcing Deals, Government IT project, future possibility, Electronic Data Systems Corp., outsourcing, Medicaid, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure
- In recent times, Wisconsin has experienced major IT meltdowns, prompting the State Auditor to release a report recommending various IT reforms. Wisconsin's state legislature also appointed a special task force to review failing IT projects, suggesting the state genuinely takes IT failures seriously. I find these steps to be...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- State of Failure in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin seems to be the land of IT project failures. Last April, the state released a report describing broad project failures running through the state government. As a response to so many IT failures, the Wisconsin state legislature formed a special task force to examine the problems. Now, the Wisconsin...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-22
- GAO IDs 47 weaknesses in how Medicare/Medicaid transmit data
- Medicare and Medicaid systems are so weak that millions of Americans are vulnerable to disclosure of their medical records, the Government Accounting Office warned recently, The Washington Post reports. GAO found 47 weaknesses in the computer systems used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to send...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, Medicare
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Maine Medicare system fraught with problems
- Maine's Medicaid billing system has been wreaking havoc since January 2005 and final upgrades won't be complete until next summer, the Bangor Daily News reports, at a cost of $56.3 million. According to Brenda Harvey, commissioner of Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, the...
- Tags: Medicare, Harvey
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
- Hot trends in state and local contracting
- Top IT projects among state and local governments in the coming year, according to WashingtonTechnology:Medicaid: There is a "backlog of states that need new Medicaid systems or are hiring a company to run their systems. But Rishi Sood, Gartner research vice president, said the need...
- Tags: Medicaid, human service, local government
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Computer change kicks kids of health rolls
- As many as a thousand Massachusetts children could lose health benefits as a result of the state's change in computer systems, the Boston Globe reports. The state said that a new computer system is more accurately dispensing benefits, although child advocates say families have not been given enough time to...
- Tags: health, Medicaid, computer
- Blog posts 2005-09-30
- $5.1 bln will be spent on managing Medicaid systems in 2005
- With state and local governments pushing to update their Medicaid Management Information Systems MMIS, spending on the systems is expected to grow 20% from $5.1 bln in fiscal year 2005 to $6 bln in fiscal year 2008, according to Input.
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicaid
- Blog posts 2005-04-14
- $5.1 bln will be spent on managing Medicaid systems in 2005
- With state and local governments pushing to update their Medicaid Management Information Systems MMIS, spending on the systems is expected to grow 20% from $5.1 bln in fiscal year 2005 to $6 bln in fiscal year 2008, according to Input.
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicaid
- Blog posts 2005-04-14
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- AMA does partisan battle over Medicare cuts
- AMA does partisan battle over Medicare cutsFor those that said "Don't Care", you had better!I have a parent going through a serious illness and on Medicare/Medicaid right now.Let me tell you, it's a nightmare folks. The last thing we need is doctors priced into not giving a damn...RE: AMA...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Insurance, Medicare, health care, Medicare cut, AMA
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- One pharmacy hub to rule them all
- One pharmacy hub to rule them allI like what surescripts does.. but have some issues with themThey charge both the physician and the pharmacist for the script. Truthfully the pharmacist should have the cost.The other issue is that if you own your own pharmacy and want to use surescripts,...
- Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, pharmacy hub
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...
- Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Cry wolf on everything?
- Patient Access To Durable Medical Equipment May Be Threatened By Competitive Acquisition Program. That's the headline on a recent press release from AdvaMed, the medical device industry lobby. In it, President Stephen Ubl right complains that if Medicare and Medicaid go forward on competitive...
- Tags: Patient, Matter, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- AdvaMed says of health care inflation, not me
- We have reached the stage in the health care debate where everyone is pointing the blame, and pointing it elsewhere. It's like the Family Circus Not Me. Who did it, Billy? Not me. In this case the Not Me is a study, from AdvaMed,...
- Tags: Device Manufacturer, Insurance Company, Health Care, Inflation, AdvaMed, General Device Inflation, Insurance, Government, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Regulations, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Health+care+or+health+insurance%3F
- Health+care+or+health+insurance%3FI agreeIf you are not wealthy to afford it or dirt poor to qualify for medicaid you are screwed.At some point people would have to ask themselves if everyone should be treated the same when ill, and if healthcare should be one of the equalizers like in most civilized countries.RE:...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, IndUShealth
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Can+medical+inflation+be+controlled%3F
- Can+medical+inflation+be+controlled%3FFingers in the pieHmmm -- compare two cases. Both occurred at the same place, same mechanism, same injury (parking lot slip on ice, twisting fall, fractured tibia.)In one case, a friend of the patient happened to be an orthopaedic surgeon and reduced the fracture manually before the ambulance arrived....
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, X-ray
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- "Follow the Money"
- When he uttered those three words in "All the President's Men," the Deep Throat character was aptly describing the workings of American government, past and present. Today we follow the money with a quick look at the latest budget proposals from the lame duck White Housers. More for...
- Tags: SLATE, Budget, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Government, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Nanotechnology, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Will comparative effectiveness cut medical market?
- For those expecting medical spending to ride out the coming recession, a new Congressional Budget Office study should give you pause. The study's conclusion sounds simple and non-controversial: Better information about the costs and benefits of different treatment options—through research on the comparative effectiveness of those options—could...
- Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Children, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Reality check: Comcast packet forging proves you can't have Internet freedom with limited government
- Reality check: Comcast packet forging proves you can't have Internet freedom with limited governmentAnother link to an unsubstantiated story.Where is the actual data to support these claims?There isn't a shred of evidence ...... in your or the EFF's article to support their and your claim. This is yellow journalism...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Comcast Corp., Reality Check, Ron Paul, Internet, government
- Discussion threads 2007-10-22
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