Author Archives: admin

Date: July 12, 2011 Merle Bushkin, Founder and CEO of Health Record Corporation, posted the following blog on The Health Care Blog.com. He suggests that people – especially those who want to remove profits from healthcare – should reconsider their … Continue reading →

http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2011/07/22/most-americans-don%E2%80%99t-yet-perceive-the-benefits-of-eh/ Posted July 22, 2011 by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn In a blog posted on The Health Care Blog.com, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, a health economist and management consultant in healthcare technology, discusses the findings of a study commissioned by Xerox. It reports “that … Continue reading →

Google’s June 24th announcement that it is terminating Google Health has evoked endless comments on most healthcare sites. They attribute its demise to various factors: the lack of consumer interest, the fact that it didn’t have a game or social … Continue reading →

Our healthcare system is broken.  We pay too much and get too little. Serious medical mistakes abound—with dire, costly consequences. While there are many explanations and excuses, most agree that one way to improve care quality and reduce care costs … Continue reading →

The HITECH section of the 2009 Stimulus Act provides almost $18 billion to reimburse physicians for adopting electronic medical record (EMR) systems, and $1.2 billion to subsidize creation of a health information network in each state that electronically links the … Continue reading →