Tag: informatics
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QlikView-PowerPoint Integration
Here’s a live screencast of the ability to copy objects from QlikView into PowerPoint. Video Rating: 5 / 5
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Wipfli National Training Conference
Listen to what past attendees have to say about the Wipfli National Training Conference held annually in July.
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Guest Article: Shakespeare in Namespace, or why Blue Button took off as fast as it did
I had the privilege of working with Dr. Peter Levin as an outside technology strategy adviser while he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Veterans Affairs during the first Obama Administration. Peter’s a hard-charging, fast-moving, take-no-prisoners style senior technical executive; he was an entrepreneur, professor, and engineer long before he came into government so it was no…
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ACP provides feedback to E&C Committee on legislative language to repeal SGR formula
The American College of Physicians (ACP) today sent a letter to the Energy and Commerce Committee (E&C) providing feedback on legislative language that the committee released on May 28, meant to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula used for calculating Medicare payments to physicians and replace it with a fair and stable system. original…
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Weekend reading: Seeking better health outcomes for homeless people; What becomes of the women denied abortions?
Even before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Republicans were vowing to repeal it. It’s no wonder, because polls showed that the basic elements of the ACA were quite popular, and there was a real danger that it would become more so as people found out that the plan denounced as a…
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Immigrants’ health care costs are hot topic on Capitol Hill
Other media reports detail Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposal to allow accountable care organizations to focus on the sickest, most costly patients; questions from Rep. Darrell Issa, R.-Calif., about the navigator program’s funding; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., angry response to a reporter’s question about late-term abortions. …read more Source: Immigrants' health care costs…
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Viewpoints: Good news from Medicare trustees; Medicaid no ‘cure-all’ for access to care
The 2013 Medicare Trustees Report had some good news. Costs per beneficiary grew just 0.7 percent in 2012, down from a 5.4 percent annual average since 1990. This is the third year of slow growth, and if the trend continues, our national finances will dramatically improve. original article source From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130615/Viewpoints-Good-news-from-Medicare-trustees3b-Medicaid-no-cure-all-for-access-to-care.aspx
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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NHCMG partner under patient-centered care agreement
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and New Haven Community Medical Group announced today that the two organizations have partnered under a patient-centered care agreement that will create an accountable care model to help ensure Anthem members’ access to quality health care that is focused on improved outcomes and lower costs. …read more Source: Anthem…