Comments on: Health care reform in Kentucky http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/07/health-care-reform-in-kentucky.html Instrumented. Interconnected. Intelligent. Wed, 23 May 2012 03:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: product for hair loss http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/07/health-care-reform-in-kentucky.html#comment-69869 product for hair loss Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:24:58 +0000 http://asmarterplanet.com/?p=1903#comment-69869 Improvement and enhancement that deals with the technology today would surely make people's life more easier. With a fast phasing of our world today, we should be ready in accepting innovations and new technologies. Improvement and enhancement that deals with the technology today would surely make people’s life more easier. With a fast phasing of our world today, we should be ready in accepting innovations and new technologies.

]]> By: Rick Derer http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/07/health-care-reform-in-kentucky.html#comment-7236 Rick Derer Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:30:03 +0000 http://asmarterplanet.com/?p=1903#comment-7236 Of course, being in IT myself I welcome any improvement to the information infrastructure but maybe I see it as a given, regardless of other legislative reform that may take place. Our work at Passport-Nebo focuses on taking on the complexity of claims and contracts to find underpayments to hospitals. I'm not sure how that fits into the scheme of things regarding healthcare reform. Another product we have developed provides patients with a cost estimate of procedures allowing them to shop around. This might be considered more of a free-market approach to reform. It sounds like you are doing some interesting work with the EMR. I didn't mean to sound critical. This is all good stuff. Of course, being in IT myself I welcome any improvement to the information infrastructure but maybe I see it as a given, regardless of other legislative reform that may take place.

Our work at Passport-Nebo focuses on taking on the complexity of claims and contracts to find underpayments to hospitals. I’m not sure how that fits into the scheme of things regarding healthcare reform. Another product we have developed provides patients with a cost estimate of procedures allowing them to shop around. This might be considered more of a free-market approach to reform.
It sounds like you are doing some interesting work with the EMR.

I didn’t mean to sound critical. This is all good stuff.

]]> By: Adam Christensen http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/07/health-care-reform-in-kentucky.html#comment-7195 Adam Christensen Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:26:38 +0000 http://asmarterplanet.com/?p=1903#comment-7195 Rick, appreciate the comment and point. I think the issue is the EMRs are a piece of the reform that needs to come. EMRs are really a first step in a broader change (reform?) to bring better processes and analytics to the healthcare system. True, I don't think it has an effect on some of the other issues being discussed, like the current debate around universal healthcare, but without EMRs some of the other proposed changes in our healthcare systems aren't possible, no? Rick, appreciate the comment and point. I think the issue is the EMRs are a piece of the reform that needs to come. EMRs are really a first step in a broader change (reform?) to bring better processes and analytics to the healthcare system. True, I don’t think it has an effect on some of the other issues being discussed, like the current debate around universal healthcare, but without EMRs some of the other proposed changes in our healthcare systems aren’t possible, no?

]]> By: Rick Derer http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2009/07/health-care-reform-in-kentucky.html#comment-7094 Rick Derer Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:39:42 +0000 http://asmarterplanet.com/?p=1903#comment-7094 Though a useful task in itself, I don't see the electronic medical records project making a dent in healthcare costs, portability or access to insurance. So I think the word 'reform' doesn't really apply and is misleading in the title of the article. Maybe 'Infrastructure Upgrades in Kentucky' would be a better title. Though a useful task in itself, I don’t see the electronic medical records project making a dent in healthcare costs, portability or access to insurance. So I think the word ‘reform’ doesn’t really apply and is misleading in the title of the article.

Maybe ‘Infrastructure Upgrades in Kentucky’ would be a better title.

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