If Gov. Romney is elected, he should take a hard look at the progress the Healthcare IT Standards Committee has made over the last four years. Abandoning Meaningful Use and giving standards-making to a consortium of vendors would be a step backwards.
If you are having a hard time choosing between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney, here are some weekend reading assignments for you. Whether you’re interested in stem cell research or Jeep jobs or Medicare, these independent websites (no lamestream media here) let you check the truthiness of candidate claims and understand […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
If Gov. Romney wins, he may need some ideas about whom to hire to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, keep the technology momentum as chief technology officer and serve as advocate-in-chief. I have compiled a binder with 9 nominations to make sure women are well represented in his administration.
When a woman in the audience of the town hall debate asked how the candidates would close the pay gap between men and women, President Obama why access to healthcare is part of the solution.
A Kaiser Family Foundation study released Monday found that almost six in 10 Medicare beneficiaries would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system similar to that proposed by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Kaiser Health Ne...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal ObamaCare promising to replace it with a healthcare plan of his own. But there are a few things that people itching to repeal ObamaCare should pay attention to. A recently released report from the Commonwealth Fund made a head to head comparison between President Obama’s Affordable Care […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Just finished watching the Presidential debate. It seems the emerging consensus is that Romney was strong and aggressive while Obama was pretty flat-footed. Not discussed yet is the fact that it’s well past time to put Jim Lehrer out to pasture. He was completely ineffective and in particular let Romney grab much of the airtime. [...]
President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney have vastly different approaches to the program. Looking at comments from each man show what they would do and how Americans would be affected. The future of Medicaid -- the state-federal workhorse of the nation's health system that provides health coverage to the poorest and sickest Americans -- hangs in the balance on Election Day. President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romne...