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Paper Kills 2.0:  How Health IT Can Help Save Your Life and Your Money

CHT Press is proud to announce the upcoming March 1, 2010 release of Paper Kills 2.0, a timely, powerful sequel to the award-winning book, Paper Kills. Newt Gingrich, Tom Daschle, and national industry leaders explore the leading information technologies that can and will transform our health system. With a specific look at the impact of the federal ARRA investment, Paper Kills 2.0 is a thought-provoking book that explores the most important drivers of health IT, from innovation, primary care, and clinical research to e-prescribing, electronic administration, and health information exchange. With praise from luminaries such as Dr. Mehmet Oz, Mike Leavitt, Bill Frist, and Jeff Immelt of GE, Paper Kills 2.0 is required reading for industry leaders, providers, and policymakers who want to understand what is happening today and what will likely happen tomorrow to bring healthcare into the 21st century.  Read more >>

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HIE for a New Generation

The Center for Health Transformation and VitalSpring Technologies partnered to release a new paper on health information exchange (HIE). With contributions from industry leaders such as Microsoft, GE, CAQH, Availity, Cerner, and Verisk Health, this paper explore the need for robust infrastructure; the role of information gleaned from interconnected technology; and how using incentives designed around information gathered can be a transformative foundation on which to improve our health system.

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Health-care Reform Must Put Patient First

Americans are sick and tired of being sick and tired of America's failing health care system.

As President Barack Obama insisted in his State of the Union, we cannot walk away from health reform. It is too soon to write an obituary on much-needed changes in how we treat patients and pay for that care. Lives are at stake.

But we should not confuse the president's message as permission for more political maneuvering to adopt a Senate plan that the public has soundly rejected in the polls and recently at the Massachusetts ballot box.

Instead we need a rational, bipartisan approach that is truly person-centered.

 Read entire op-ed by Newt Gingrich & Andrew von Eschenbach

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Healing without Harm: 21st Century Healthcare through High Reliability

On January 29, the Center for Health Transformation released the report, “Healing without Harm: 21st Century Healthcare through High Reliability,” a report describing the progress several top-performing health systems have made in reducing medical errors and increasing patient safety rates. Over the past several months, CHT examined how leading U.S. hospitals and health systems were improving quality and patient safety rates since the infamous 1999 Institute of Medicine study To Err Is Human, which found that as many as 98,000 Americans die due to medical errors each year. CHT conducted one-on-one interviews with top-performing health systems, focusing on each individual organization’s journey toward quality. Read press release>>

Healing without Harm: 21st Century Healthcare through High Reliability

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Health Reform:  What a Wild Ride

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David Merritt, CHT Vice President and National Policy Director reports on the wild ride the country has been on for the past several months enduring this roller coaster known as health reform. According to Merritt, "the best alternative and the best way forward is to start the process over with bipartisan solutions."    Pollster.com graph referenced in the video

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Obama Should “Start Over” on Healthcare

Interviewed by Greta Van Susteren in his office at the Center for Health Transformation in Washington, DC, CHT founder Newt Gingrich says Obama should “start over” on healthcare and, like Clinton, should say, “the era of big government is over.”  Sign Letter to President Obama (below)

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Newt Gingrich Agrees with President Obama Air Healthcare Negotiations on C-SPAN

The Center for Health Transformation calls on Congress to allow C-SPAN or other media outlets to broadcast final negotiations concerning the merging of the House and Senate versions of healthcare reform so Americans can know about one of the most important legislative changes to emerge in 40 years.  Sign Letter to President Obama (below)  CHT Press Release Letter from Brian P. Lamb Atlanta Business Chronicle article

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Will the House Bill on Health Reform Affect You?

One Page Highlights from H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act Employers Individual Taxpayers Seniors and Medicare Recipients Physicians and Hospitals Insurers State Government Officials Cost Comparison Chart House-Senate Comparison of Key Provisions (POLITICO) Keep transparency of government bills alive !   Remember www.thomas.gov.

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Six Straightforward Steps to Better Healthcare

Stop Paying the Crooks Move from a Paper-based to an Electronic Health System Tax Reform Create a Health-Based Health System Reform Our Health Justice System Invest in Scientific Research and Breakthroughs

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