'Samantha Brown points out that, “Healthcare, like every other industry, gets caught up in the idolatry of the ‘innovators.’”' I…
Morning Headlines 12/10/14
Saying Epic is a ‘closed’ health records system is an oversimplification
VentureBeat profiles Legacy Health (OR), an Epic customer, as they work through their interoperability options while trying to share data between a network of community hospitals and the primary care offices that refer patients to them. Epic CEO Judy Faulkner weighs in, “There are multiple standards, and we do most … if not all of the ones that are most frequently used.”
Jonathan Gruber is very, very sorry about Obamacare ‘gaffes’
MIT economist and former healthcare.gov advisor Jonathan Gruber testifies before Congress, apologizing for his disparaging remarks about the Affordable Care Act.
Computer says no: NHS IT was not designed to operate at this level
In England, a physician laments about life as an EHR user as the NHS transitions its hospitals away from paper charts.
Gruber should appologize for Obamacare, not what he said.
He didn’t make disparaging remarks about the ACA, he disparaged voters and opponents of the the act. In fact he specifically said that he didn’t disparage the ACA ” “I behaved badly and will have to live with that … my own inexcusable arrogance is not a flaw in the Affordable Care Act.”