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Political

Ah, Tom, We Hardly Knew Ye

February 5, 2009

He had experience in Washington, and was aggressively lobbying for health care reform.
He was clearly pro-medical IT.
Most impressive, he emphasized the central role of primary care medicine in repairing our upside down physician reimbursement system.
Naturally, he was destined to fail.

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Tom Daschle, HHS Secretary-designate: Keep It Coming, Love

January 15, 2009

In what seems like a consistent extension of President-elect Obama’s recent statements on healthcare, Tom Daschle called for a rethinking of the problem, and constructive action to fix it, during a January 8th Senate Hearing.
This AAFP article summarized his statements nicely. As a primary care physician involved in medial IT and EMR’s, it’s difficult to [...]

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Obama And The Future Of American EMR’s

January 9, 2009

On Thursday, President-elect Obama explicitly named EMR’s as a major part of his go-forward economic plan:
To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized. This will cut waste, eliminate red tape, and [...]

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