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Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews
From Boston.com article by Kelli Kennedy – December 3, 2013 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Counselors helping people use the federal government’s online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site, with some zipping through the application process while others …
Telemedicine consults may reduce errors at rural ERs
Reuters Health article by Genevra Pittman, Nov 25, 2013 Emergency rooms in rural areas don’t see many very sick or badly injured children each year. When they do, bringing in a pediatric critical care specialist by videoconference to help with treatment could …
ObamaCare will create healthcare jobs
Article by Ira E. Shapiro, The Hill blog, November 14, 2013 Despite the negative attention Obamacare has had recently, Obamacare will also help create many new jobs in the healthcare arena in our country due to the shortage of coders in the …
EHR Interoperability Remains Elusive
John Commins, Senior editor, HealthLeaders Media, November 8, 2013 A lack of standards, privacy concerns, and proprietary and competition issues are just a few of the hurdles hampering the interoperability of EHR data among participants in health information exchanges. Healthcare providers have …
3 in 4 Patients Want E-mail Consultations with Doctors
From Health Leaders Media article by Ryan Chiavetta, November 1, 2013 Research reveals a large discrepancy between how parents say they would like to communicate with pediatricians and how they actually do communicate with doctors. Three quarters (77%) of parents said they …
When Smartphones Do Dumb Things
Mobile health apps are slowly revolutionizing patient care, but occasionally the revolution takes a left turn into lunacy and feeds a hypochondriac’s worst fears. Article by Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek October 28, 2013 What are we to make of the Owlet Baby Monitor, …
Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions
Article by Art Caplan, Ph.D. NBC News, Oct. 21, 2013 A friend recently brought to my attention a disturbing question from a psychiatrist working with a transplant team: Should she be checking the sobriety claims of liver transplant candidates by looking on …
States encounter ObamaCare impostors
Article By Elise Viebeck, TheHill Blog, October 14, 2013 State insurance regulators are encountering sites designed to mimic ObamaCare’s enrollment portal, the online hub where millions of people are meant to purchase healthcare coverage. Attempts at imitating healthcare.gov have met with cease-and-desist …
