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Political Implications of the Supreme Court Decision on Health Reform

Chief Justice Roberts is very smart, and quite possibly pretty sly as well. I have been reading through the Supreme Court's landmark decision on health reform (which like many others, I predicted wrongly). But after also reading many commentaries, including Charles Krauthammer's viewpoint on "Why Roberts Did It", and then seeing the reactions to the ruling I am beginning to see ...

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#CNNFAIL

I'm still amazed people are continuing to retweet my incorrect tweet on SCOTUS ruling...#SCOTUS #ACADecision: Individual mandate is declared unconstitutional— Brian Ahier (@ahier) June 28, 2012However, like many folks I have tended to trust CNN. However, they let us down... Supreme Court strikes down individual mandate portion of health care law. on.cnn.com/LvVRcK— CNN Breaking ...

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Health IT Standards Committee and the NwHIN Governance RFI

Below is the outstanding presentation to the June 2012 meeting of the HIT Standards Committee from Dixie Baker on behalf of the NwHIN Power Team, which provides guidance and feedback to ONC for the development of objective criteria for evaluating the readiness of specifications for adoption as national standards, and the Privacy & Security Standards Workgroup which makes recommendations to the HIT Standards Committee ...

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NOMINATE NNAEMEKA ONYEKA FOR YOUTH AWARDS

PRESS RELEASENOMINATE NNAEMEKA ONYEKA FOR YOUTH AWARDSNNAEMEKA ONYEKA is a Nigerian and Ghanaian model and an upcoming actor dedicated to contributing relentlessly to branding Africa’s image through platforms that harness new talents among the youth in Africa.Nnaemeka over the years have had several features on TV shows such as the The One Show on Viasat 1, The Be Bold Show on ...

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A Forum on Transformation Through Innovation

Former Senators Bill Frist and Tom Daschle, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project, and Former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen discussed information technology in healthcare at a conference Tuesday in Nashville on June 19, 2012. Senator Frist, of Nashville, was a heart and lung surgeon, and Governor Bredesen was an executive with a healthcare management company ...

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Supreme Court and Health Reform

Supreme Court ruling on health reform will not have huge impactThe Supreme Court will issue a decision on June 25, 2012 (possibly June 18) [Update: I was wrong. Ruling will be on Thursday June 28, 2012] concerning President Obama’s 2010 healthcare law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The court is considering a series of questions to determine whether the law, ...

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IMAN: Still Living The Dream

IMAN: Still Living The DreamI always have a smile on my face when Icome across Africans doing tremendously well in various industries around the Globe. Continue living your dream of being a Global fashion Icon.....Iman Mohamed AbdulMaji ...

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Health Data Summit at the White House

Patient Access to Health Data Summit held at the White HouseI was honored to participate in the Patient Access to Health Data Summit at White House on June 4, 2012 as a kick off event to  the the Health Data Initiative Forum. The meeting was a moderated discussion among an invited group of participants including developers, health plans, providers, EHR vendors, VCs, government ...

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The Health Data Initiative Forum 2012

The Health Data Initiative (HDI), originally launched by the IOM and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the Community Health Data Initiative, is a public-private collaboration that encourages innovators to utilize health data to develop applications to raise awareness of health and health system performance and spark community action to improve health.In March 2010, the IOM and HHS hosted a small ...