Open Source Medical Records
[...] In general, I’m a fan of as much transparency as possible in health care. I think that patients, doctors, and payers (both public and private health insurance) should have access to information related to treatment, diagnoses, and cost – as quickly as possible and as clearly as possible. Open source medical records is one step towards transparency, and I like that. [...]
Previous Stories
- Cavalcade Of Risk – Colorado Rocky Mountain High Edition
- Resurrecting House Calls
- Compromises Necessary To Improve Access To Healthcare
- Maternity As An Option Rather Than A Mandate
- Updating Communication Between Providers And Insurers
- Cadillac Tax Could Impact Non Cadillac Plans Too
- Dentists And HIV Screening
- Health Insurance Across State Lines Not As Simple As It Sounds
- Imerica Placed In Rehabilitation
- Obesity As A Pre-Existing Condition
- Expanding Access To Cover Colorado
- And You Thought Gender Based Pricing Was Bad
- Outcome Based Incentives For Doctors
- Marketing in Disguise
- Complaint Ratios Updated With 2008 Data
- Some Claims Should Be Denied
- Not Just Health Insurance That Needs Reform
- What Women Want
- What We Expect Of Insurance
- Physicians, Not Providers
- The Drug Industry Is Dancing
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- The 82nd Cavalcade Of Risk
- State Versus Federal Regulation Of Health Insurance
- Surgery Might Not Be Best For Breech Births
- Medical Underwriting And Policy Rescission
- Profitability And The Health Insurance Industry
- Health Insurance Companies Performing Better
- Designing An Effective, Enforceable, Individual Mandate
- Steps Towards Health Care Reform
- Too Important To Fail
- Looking For Solutions
- Medical Home Pilot Program
- Government Research And Health Care
- Tough Times For Health Care Reform
- The Real Price Of Brand Name Prescription Meds
- Health Insurance And Clinical Trials
- Non-Profit Does Not Necessarily Mean Low Cost
- Public Health Insurance Plan Deserves A Chance
- Medicare Buy In Option A Good Idea
- Brainstorm Means All Views Are Welcome
- A Cost Saving Idea For Health Insurance Companies
- Your Health Insurance Company Prefers Generics
- Hospital Bling A Bad Idea
- How Guaranteed Issue Health Insurance Could Work
- Health Care Sticker Shock
- Health Insurance Reform Alone Is Not The Solution
- Mandatory And Guaranteed Issue Health Insurance
- Big Pharma Likes The Free Market
- The Future Of Our Health Care System
- Improving Public Opinion Of Health Insurance Companies
- Health Insurance Premiums For Men And Women
- Who Americans Blame For Rising Health Care Costs
- Leaving a Four Year Old Kid With No Options
- Autism And Health Insurance
- Anthem Blue Cross Introducing SmartSense In Colorado
- Health Care Reform Overshadowed By Economic Crisis
- A Bail Out For The Health Care Industry
- Dangerous Bill To Be Aimed at the Individual Market
- Complaint Ratios Updated With 2007 Data
- A Tenacious Appeal
- Health Insurance Premiums For Smokers
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- A Health Insurance Report Card
- Individual Health Insurance Won’t Work For Everyone
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- Preventing Diabetes
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- Rescinded Health Insurance Policies Getting Reinstated
- Midwifery Care Is Good For Health Insurance Carriers
- Colorado HB1389 Needs Some Work
- A Bad Trend in Rx Coverage
- Colorado Lawmakers Addressing Health Insurance Premium Increases
- If The Cancer Doesn’t Kill You, The Price Tag Might
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- Lower Share Prices For Humana And Wellpoint
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- Health Insurance After Infertility Treatment
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- Health Wonk Review at Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review
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- Autism Funding Still A Struggle
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- Doctors Fight Back Against United Healthcare
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- New Kaiser Permanente Contracts for Longmont and Boulder Valley
- Colorado Health Insurance Companies Walking the Walk
- New MyAnthem Member Portal at Anthem.com
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- Tonik Rate Increase for Colorado Effective February 1, 2007
- SEC Probes United Healthcare
- Anthem Blue Cross of Colorado Small Group Health Insurance News
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- The Healthcare Battleground
- Wasting Health Care Dollars
- A Legal Scam
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Now Has Rating Areas
- Sending Healthcare Overseas
- A Greener Earth, Fitter Employees and Lower Insurance Premiums
- Tax-Deductible Gym Memberships
- Insurance Mergers and Network Shrinkage Hurts Consumers
- Funding Health Care with Tobacco Tax
- Can’t Afford Health Insurance? Don’t Eat Out.
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- Uninsured American Children
- Financial Incentives For Good Health
- Wal-Mart Health Insurance Not That Bad
- More on Sending the Wrong Message
- Sending the Wrong Message To Our Kids About Health Insurance
- Preventative Care on Individual Health Insurance
- Ultrasounds and pregnancy… too much of a good thing?
- Do We Expect Too Much from Health Insurance?
- United Healthcare of Colorado on Out-of-Network Policy
- Health Insurance Is A Different Business
- Caz Matthews Comes Back to Denver
