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Did you know that sharing your data can increase the quality of your health?

Well ok… I kind of exaggerated a bit, but I cannot help but wonder to what extent this article may be inferring that sharing your health data can truly help you increase the quality of your health and health care.  It makes sense right.  The more you are willing to compare your data and experiences [...]

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Is your company entitled to part of your settlement?

So it turns out that I have been living under a rock the past week and did not hear about the Walmart vs. Shank story until yesterday when Walmart reversed its position. For those of you who have been living under a rock as well, here is a recap:
Ms. Shank signed up for [...]

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Blue Cross Blue Shield TN Delays Doc Info

I must applaud Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee for delaying the release of their doctor info. In doing research for the dCard standard, I personally witnessed the large discrepancies between different sources for physician information – BCBS of TN being one of them. I also applaud the doctors for paying attention to [...]

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Companies to Tackle New Standards for Healthcare Provider Information Sharing

NASHVILLE, Tenn., (February 26, 2008) – A consortium of nine US-based healthcare technology companies and healthcare providers has announced it will lead adoption of a new consistent file format standard for collecting, storing and exchanging of healthcare provider data.
To be called a dCard — short for doctor card — the new technology criterion is intended [...]

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Greater Transparency Needed in Health-Care Business

Check out Christopher’s article from yesterdays Tennessean…. so so proud!
Online article.    PDF Version.

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Face to Face With the People Who Really Know Healthcare

I had the opportunity this week to attend the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Gallatin support group to tell them about change:healthcare (of course I couldn’t get the projector to work, which made sharing the application a bit difficult, however it all worked out). As I began to tell them what our company is about, [...]

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When it comes to healthcare reform… talk is cheap!

Per Christopher’s request, I began looking into Facebook groups that would possibly be interested in taking a look at our new change:healthcare site debuting sometime in late February. He and I figured that some young active minds, looking to support “Universal Healthcare” or at the very least change in the system, could have the [...]

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Why should we change health care?

In going through my multiplying number of unread feeds I ran across an interesting piece from last week (sorry to those of you who have already done your reading). Politico published Young and Uninsured Turn to Facebook highlighting the large number of young adults interested in health care reform policies of the “08 election.
I [...]

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What are we really fighting for… access or choice?

For some reason no one seems to be distinguishing between these two very different ideas in health care: ACCESS and CHOICE. All of this talk about socialized medicine creating less choice within our system and long waiting periods for care makes my head hurt. I can’t help but wonder why so many [...]

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Healthcare: the never ending saga

How unclear can things possibly get?? Every direction I turn there is a different discussion, different concern, a new point of interest, new topics, new programs, new ideas, new technology, different ways to use your personal health record, different insurance plans, different reimbursement rates… you get the picture. Trying to understand healthcare is exhausting.
So here [...]

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