The primary point of using the Cloud is using operating expenses vs limited capital ones and avoiding having to update…
Morning Headlines 5/25/17
Congressional Budget Office: HR 1628 American Health Care Act of 2017
CBO reports that by 2026, AHCA will reduce the federal deficit by $119 billion but increase the number of uninsured Americans by 23 million.
Putting America’s Health First: FY2018 President’s Budget for HHS
President Trump’s budget proposal includes a $22 million reduction in ONC’s budget.
U of C receives $100 million donation for new wellness institute
The University of Chicago Medicine receives a $100 million donation, the largest in its organization’s history, from Chicago investor Craig Duchossois and his family. The donation will be used to establish a wellness research center.
Patient Safety and Information Technology
Former National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD speaks at the release of Bipartisan Policy Center’s report on health IT safety.
Darn, I wanted ONC’s budget to be zero. ONC has only caused massive regulatory activity, absolutely no interop, over burdened MDs, and continues to flail in all areas. They cannot seem to get the idea that they have inflicted major damage to the practice of medicine and set back the usability, interop, efficiency, safety and security at least a decade. Time to shutter ONC’s doors.
First link is broken. ;( too bad I wanted to read the analysis
I fixed the link.