Health Care.

The authors argue that the differences in growth are largely due to discretionary decisions by physicians that are influenced by the local availability of hospital beds, imaging centers and other resources-and a payment system that rewards growth and higher utilization.

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There is a big distance between funding science and creating policy or law. We all need to respect that distance. Even after we’ve been burned by it.

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A coalition pushing open source health IT for Africa is raising money for the cause by selling a music album partly available as a free download at Amazon.com.

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If the VA, the military, Medicare and Medicaid build and re-build their IT infrastructure based on the same open standards, in other words, those become the standards the private insurance market will follow.

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Without a unique database identifier for each person integrated electronic medical records are impossible.

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Until the President appoints someone to run HHS, and that person appoints someone to oversee health IT, the only direction vendors will have will be from Bush Administration holdovers.

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It will take three years to prove the antibodies safe, but the result could be a single vaccine against all types of H5 flu, and the scientists are now going after the H3 strains as well.

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The Apple iPod Racer will be competing in the Charleston Pack 28 Pinewood Derby. We are hoping for a win in the “best creativity” class to highlight the spirit of Creative West Virginians. Apple has nothing on us. Wish us luck!

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The Apple iPod Racer will be competing in the Charleston Pack 28 Pinewood Derby. We are hoping for a win in the “best creativity” class to highlight the spirit of Creative West Virginians. Apple has nothing on us. Wish us luck!

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Today I am attending the World Health Care Congress2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Consumer Connectivity in Carlsbad, CA. Good presentations and discussion with those in attendance. You can follow the conference via Twitter at #WHCC2 or get live blogging at EKIVE by Mark Schrimshire using Cover It Live.

I just finished up my afternoon presentation with Rod Piechowski with the American Hospital Association on the topic of Overcoming Legal and Policy Barriers for Health IT Adoption. With the recent passage of ARRA 2009 we thought it valuable to talk about the changing landscape of Health IT as a result of the new bill. Below are the slides from my presentation.

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Medical Economics covers the developing world of physician social networking websites in Behind doctors’ social networking websites.

Interestingly the article begins with a story about a West Virginia physician, Danine Rydland, MD, using Sermo to search for information to help her treat one of her patients.

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Medical Economics covers the developing world of physician social networking websites in Behind doctors’ social networking websites.

Interestingly the article begins with a story about a West Virginia physician, Danine Rydland, MD, using Sermo to search for information to help her treat one of her patients.

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Fellow health care lawyer colleague, AHLA HIT member and friend, Jud DeLoss, provides an excellent overview of the Physician Incentives under the HITECH ACT.

The incentives focus on providing direct payment for the adoption, implementation and maintenance of electronic health records (EHRs) to “eligible professional” who establishes the “meaninful use” of an EHR.

Check out this post and others at Jud’s Minnesota Health IT Blog.

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Fellow health care lawyer colleague, AHLA HIT member and friend, Jud DeLoss, provides an excellent overview of the Physician Incentives under the HITECH ACT.

The incentives focus on providing direct payment for the adoption, implementation and maintenance of electronic health records (EHRs) to “eligible professional” who establishes the “meaninful use” of an EHR.

Check out this post and others at Jud’s Minnesota Health IT Blog.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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I noticed some traffic coming from the Avvo Blog and realized that they compiled a list of top legal blogs based on Alexa traffic rankings. Currently my Health Care Law Blog comes in at #98 on the list.

If you are new to legal blogs this is a great list to see the variety of law related blogs available. Thanks to Avvo for compiling and sharing the list.

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