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		<title>Is &#8220;Meaningful Use&#8221; Meaningful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transformation of healthcare requires a complete disruption of our current system of healthcare delivery.]]></description>
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		<title>Regulate HIT Tools as Medical Devices? Yes and No</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 07:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulation of HIT tools as medical devices is currently premature. The regulations must be constructed to advance HIT use while simultaneously protecting patients.]]></description>
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		<title>Keynote Adddress at HIMSS 2010 Annual Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back…and Looking Ahead…on the Progress of EHR Implementation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The appointment of a healthcare policy expert David Blumenthal, MD, rather than an informaticist, signals that the Obama Administration is serious about promoting the use of health IT through policy changes that impact how healthcare is delivered in the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Computerization Not a Budget Saver, Concludes Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent survey of over four thousand hospitals found no connection between computerization and reduced costs. In addition, increased computerization led to only small improvements in the quality of care.]]></description>
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		<title>Making Meaningful Use Meaningful</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what is “meaningful use?” Perhaps former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined it best: "It is hard to define, but I know it when I see it"
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		<title>Is There Any Doubt It&#8217;s Broken?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bchaiken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If George Steinbrenner expects the Yankees to win the World Series every year considering he spends 40% more than any other team on payroll, is it wrong for us to expect the same from our spending on healthcare? Should we not receive the best care in the world?]]></description>
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		<title>We Need Privacy Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bchaiken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, patient information is actively being used to target market products and services to patients. Although the data firms utilize is de-identified, they employ reverse lookup utilities to reconstruct the information with patient identifiers.]]></description>
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		<title>HIT Alone Not the Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bchaiken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unequivocally, healthcare information technology alone cannot solve the problems our nation faces in delivering high quality, affordable healthcare to all Americans.]]></description>
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		<title>Savings from Effectiveness Research Can Fund Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bchaiken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the resistance to healthcare reform in Congress and beyond is based on cost concerns. Perhaps the success of healthcare reform is dependent upon the ability of comparative effectiveness research to show the way to cost savings that can fund the reform.

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