And I don't only say that without two secretaries--also the President of the United States who made it very clear in thi...
The Department's resistance to the President's open standard agenda appears to be founded largely on an incorrect assump...
I am told that strategies have been modified and collaborative efforts are ongoing for both records transfer and IEHR.
If we really want to get these systems integrated, if we really want to get the backlog cleaned up, then we need to star...
Earlier this year, we passed legislation to extend the Special Diabetes Program which provides $150 million a year above...
Throughout the first term, the Department's actions have been inconsistent with the President's agenda.
We have to make sure that everyone understands their options.
Americans are the only people on earth who believe that death is negotiable.
I do not know that we should be encouraging college students to fill out advance directives and POLST orders.
We should be respecting individuals' wishes.
patients and their families should be able to trust that the care that they receive in their final days is not only of h...
Patients and their families should not have to fear that the process of dying will be marked by preventable pain.
But, in fact, they also, as your Five Wishes document shows, can be used to direct the kind of care that they do want to...
Thanks to the Retirement Research Foundation, Maine's coalition received a three-year grant to develop their POLST Progr...
About one-quarter of Medicare funds are spent on care at the end of life that is geared toward expensive high-tech inter...
These issues also have long been of personal interest to me.
But that is pretty unlikely----
I think it is really sad when this important discussion degenerates into slogans and demagoguery, such as death panels.
