RE: Change HC/RansomHub, now that the data is for sale, what is the federal govt. or DOD doing to protect…
Morning Headlines 11/11/13
White House tech expert gets subpoena to testify on HealthCare.gov
Todd Park, the US chief technology officer, has been issued a subpoena by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to testify at a hearing next week about what went wrong with the Healthcare.gov website. The committee says he was not willing to appear voluntarily, while the White House responded that the subpoena was unnecessary and poorly timed because Park is heavily involved in fixing Healthcare.gov and had already volunteered to testify in December.
Region Zealand and the Capital Region points to Epic as a provider of Health Platform
Epic, working with NNIT as a prime contractor, will sign a contract to provide EHR systems for all of eastern Denmark, according to a translated press release. The deal will involve 40,000 users and is valued at $180 million.
University Hospital sees banding together for survival
University Hospital (GA) will likely join Novant Health Inc., a 20-facility network based in Charlotte, NC. University Hospital’s CEO cites ARRA and the ACA as having too significant an impact on the bottom line to keep up as a standalone facility. The hospital spent $50 million on Epic and is looking for an additional $30 million to cover needed upgrades.
Report: CCO diversion program working
In Oregon, a recent report finds that a statewide coordinated care program has managed to reduce overall ER visits by 9 percent from 2011, before the program was launched. Emergency care spending also declined 18 percent from 2011. Outpatient primary care visits have increased by 18 percent and spending for primary care is up 7 percent.
Your story is 100% wrong – Ketchum dosn’t write the content for ONC’s HealthIT.gov web site they just build out the backend and that contract is about to end.
All of the blog posts are created by internal staff (it often takes a few weeks to get all of the edits in) and then reviewed by full time ONC staff in the communication department.
Verify it with the ONC Director of Communication Peter.Ashkenaz@hhs.gov Telephone: (202) 260-6342
[From Mr H] I didn’t say they wrote it, only that many such blogs are ghostwritten and that Ketchum manages the ONC blog (to whatever degree that involves and that earned them a PR award).