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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the road to our digital health utopia of seamless data interoperability and transparency is littered with rusted hulks of other really great ideas. These didn’t really exist in the days of Google Health, but the Argonaut Project and other initiatives have laid the table.

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A tale of two tech titans hoping to help healthcare

Health Blawg

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the road to our digital health utopia of seamless data interoperability and transparency is littered with rusted hulks of other really great ideas. These didn’t really exist in the days of Google Health, but the Argonaut Project and other initiatives have laid the table.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

CMS.gov

Sustaining our exceptional healthcare depends now more than ever on driving down costs, and a major part of the CMS strategy to drive down costs depends on smart and innovative use of information technology (IT). Patients should expect health IT that enhances their care coordination instead of disrupting it.