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CHT Members GE Healthcare and ICW Join Forces

CHT members GE Healthcare and ICW recently announced a strategic partnership to integrate and co-develop their health information exchange (HIE) solutions. The companies’ ehealth solution set, includes electronic medical records (EMR), health information exchange (HIE) and a personal health record (PHR)—the full spectrum of data sources and connectivity.

By improving the connection of disparate healthcare technology systems, GE is building on its healthymagination commitment to increase quality of care and access while lowering costs. Easier access to patient information helps clinicians make better more informed decisions that can help improve care. Additionally, GE Healthcare’s integrated electronic medical record helps reduce repetitive tests and the risk of medical errors.

GE Healthcare and ICW will focus their combined solution on helping national, state, local and regional organizations create a secure exchange to share patient conditions, allergies, medication history and other appropriate clinical data across the continuum of care.


MedImpact Provides e-Health Platform for Flu Season

CHT member, MedImpact, has collaborated with several health care organizations to provide a suite of free, online flu self-assessment tools to MedImpact clients and to the 32 million individual members they serve.  Just in time for flu season, these health-assessment tools, authored by the AMA, and based upon CDC guidance and the best available scientific evidence, are being made available—at no cost—to promote public health and to help individuals and physicians better communicate and improve care coordination among health care professionals, individuals and families.  To access the easy-to-use application, go to: www.medimpact.com and take the H1N1/Flu Session.

The suite of online flu evaluation tools walks individuals through a series of questions to determine the severity of their flu symptoms based upon the latest CDC guidelines. Individuals can choose to share their information with their physician, as well as family members and loved ones. This resource aims to help individuals detect and assess flu symptoms, including the 2009 H1N1 influenza, and determine an appropriate course of action.
 
MedImpact is committed to delivering clinical care coordination tools that reduce redundant testing, that foster better physician, pharmacist, family and patient communications and that empower individuals to manage their wellness and reduce their health care expenditures.  This launch marks the first of many applications and tools that MedImpact will deploy through this e-Health platform. 
 
Note: The Flu Evaluator works best with the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or 8, Google Chrome 3, and Safari 3.5 or 4.  You will also need to download Adobe Flash Player 10.
 
While these tools are useful for those who aren’t sure whether they have the flu, anyone who exhibits severe symptoms such as a very high fever or difficulty breathing should contact their physician immediately or seek urgent care.


CHT Press Book Event: Stop Paying the Crooks

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Stop Paying the Crooks Editor Jim Frogue Presents at the CHT Book Event at the Heritage Foundation During President Obama's September address to Congress, he suggested targeting fraud, waste and abuse to pay for any major healthcare reform effort. CHT Press' Stop Paying the Crooks not only exposes the hundreds of billions of dollars lost to common criminals; it also provides workable solutions to eliminate such fraud within our health system. Authored by a collaboration of experts from a variety of fields, Stop Paying the Crooks outlines solutions to end fraudulent abuse and help put America's healthcare system - and the economy - on sound financial footing. James Frogue, editor, and Merrill Matthews and Mark Birdwhistell, two fellow contributors, examine egregious examples of robbery occurring in America's healthcare industry.  Event Details >> 


Government Panel Can’t Put Price on Human Life

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The Big C. It's the disease that Americans fear most.


Having seen the damage — how it eats away the human body, inflicts vicious pain and withers the human spirit — makes prevention all the more critical in this day and age.

Along with many of you, we have witnessed too many of our family and friends not only suffer the physical debilitation but also cancer's assault on their dignity. Death is a natural part of life but suffering and death due to cancer is a fate that no one should experience. Knowing what cancer does to humans, how it eats at their spirit as well as their bodies, is why news concerning mammography screening last week was such a setback for women and a concern for all Americans. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation that most women should delay screenings until they are 50 didn't just cloud the issues about breast cancer detection but sent a message that the hope of finding cancer and preventing its suffering and death is not for everyone because it isn't worth the cost. 

 Read entire op-ed by CHT Senior Adviser Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach and CHT CEO Nancy Desmond


Dear President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Reid:

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There is no doubt that improving healthcare for all Americans is one of our country’s top priorities. From the quality of care to how much we pay, from insurance coverage to access, from treatments to technology, healthcare profoundly affects every American, every community, and every business.

We can all agree that we need to work together so that every American has more choices of greater quality at lower cost.

Unfortunately, the last several months have shown yet again that many in Washington are more interested in playing politics than achieving a positive result for the American people. It is not too late. There is still an opportunity to get health reform right. Here are commonsense ways to find the right solutions, the right way.  Download entire letter (PDF).


Health Reform:  Stand in Line

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In response to the controversial health reform legislation H.R. 3962, the ‘‘Affordable Health Care for America Act,’’ which narrowly passed the House on Saturday, November 7 by a vote of 220 to 215, CHT Founder Newt Gingrich discusses Title 1, Section 101, subsection (h)(2), found on pages 25-26 of the bill. The provision applies in a situation of insufficient funds for high risk individuals and reads:

“If the Secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for payment of expenses of the high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the expenses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists.”

Read Republican Leader John Boehner’s (R-OH) floor speech on the issue >>>


If the Senate Finance Bill Passes . . .

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Health Reform Bill Take 2

  • Individual plans will be 50% higher than if no changes – an increase of $1,500/yr. for individual policy holders & $3,300/yr for a family plan. (This on top of premium increases that already average 7-10 percent a year.
  • For small employers (2-50 employees --which is where the majority of Americans work) the reforms would increase premiums up to 19% by the 5th year of the reforms equating to  2.5M Americans losing their small employer health coverage.
  • Best case scenario would still leave 16M Americans without coverage.

Sources: 
Oliver Wyman Study | PricewaterHouseCoopers Study 

Keep transparency of government bills alive !  Remember www.thomas.gov.


Six Straightforward Steps to Better Healthcare

  1. Stop Paying the Crooks
  2. Move from a Paper-based to an Electronic Health System
  3. Tax Reform
  4. Create a Health-Based Health System
  5. Reform Our Health Justice System
  6. Invest in Scientific Research and Breakthroughs

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Stop Paying the Crooks: 
Solutions to End the
Fraud that Threatens Your Healthcare

Foreword: Newt Gingrich
Editor: James Frogue

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EMPLOYER SOLUTIONS LAB

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Message from our Founder Newt Gingrich

Welcome to The Center for Health Transformation Employer Solutions Lab, a part of the Healthy Workforce and Community Project. 

Click here for what will be the first of many innovative solutions >>

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