One of the major cost-saving initiatives behind ObamaCare is the consolidation of hospitals and doctors into “Accountable Care Organizations”, or ACOs. It is presumed that forcing these organizations to utilize the same doctors, hospitals, clinics, EMRs, labs, imaging centers and so on will create more efficient, seamless and less costly care. (This was not really borne out by Medicare’s own ACO pilot program, but that’s
Whether the American voters realized it or not, arguably the single most important result of the 2012 Presidential election had to do with the future of what President himself has now termed “ObamaCare”. Apparently admitting that resistance to ObamaCare is as futile as assimilation into The Borg, House Speaker John Boehner announced that “ObamaCare is the law of the land” and that House Republicans would
A few weeks ago (how time flies!), we set out to explore the various elements and implications of the newest addition to the state laws governing the delivery of healthcare in Massachusetts: “An Act improving the quality of health care and reducing costs through increased transparency, efficiency and innovation”, and officially identified by the rather more prosaic name of “Chapter 224 of the Acts of
In 2006, the Massachusetts legislature passed “The Massachusetts Mandated Health Insurance Law”, which was signed by then-Governor Mitt Romney. As most of our readers undoubtedly know, this law subsequently served as the model for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA is now popularly known and widely referred to as ObamaCare. While the 2006 Massachusetts law has been labeled “RomneyCare” by many people, it’s not
You host has spent a good portion of his career working to come up with ways to make healthcare better, faster and cheaper through the appropriate use of computer and information technologies. Given the vitriol that this blog has periodically heaped upon many of the electronic medical record systems commonly deployed and mandated by the government, this enthusiasm for computers and telecommunications may come as
 
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