Morning Headlines 12/27/16
In an interesting but non-healthcare specific piece, Harvard Business Review recounts the 30-year path TCP/IP took to transform business and draws parallels to the pace and transformative nature that blockchain technology could have on business practices in the future.
Fearing Medicaid cuts, states wield health data as a political weapon
CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt is pointing to diagnostic and cost of care data from states that expanded Medicare under ACA to make a case against a full repeal of the law.
Got a chronic disease? There will soon be a prescription app for that
Wired UK covers the NHS program aimed at developing and prescribing apps to help manage chronic diseases.
Ageed Mike, "patients are the widgets that must be processed" additionally when it costs close to $3,700 a month for…