Category: Health IT

Biden Pleads for Open Data for Cancer Moonshot

Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 10th May 2016

Three months after Vice President Joe Biden convened the first meeting of the Cancer Moonshot Task Force—aimed at accelerating the-lancet-usa-blog-logo1cancer prevention, treatment and cures—he pleaded for help from people who know how to marshal massive amounts of health data to create successful businesses, or apps that can guide consumers to the best hospitals. [continued here]…

Doctors skittish about health technology despite promise of big federal bucks

By Susan Jaffe  | Center for Public Integrity  |  July 7, 2011

The goal is to bring the last outposts of the nation’s health care system into the computer age, linking medical providers so that they can coordinate and improve patient care and — in the process—reduce unnecessary health care spending. But convincing everyone to use electronic health records has not been easy. …Neither  reward nor punishment has 

persuaded some small practice doctors — a troubling omen for the Obama administration, which believes that conversion of paper records to electronic form is a crucial step toward health care reform. [Continued]

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