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Healthcare.gov goes live: terrific site on health coverage options

e-Patient Dave | July 2, 2010

This week the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) introduced Healthcare.gov, a consumer information website mandated by the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform bill). A video of the introduction meeting is here. The site is fabulous; HHS Chief Technical Officer rightly says that the best praise they’ve gotten is that it doesn’t [...]

Consumer Partnership for eHealth’s thoughts on Meaningful Use

e-Patient Dave | May 13, 2009

Precursor posts: The “meaningful use” debate (my thoughts); the Markle Foundation’s work on the subject Thanks to Josh Seidman of the Information Therapy Blog for steering me to the “meaningful use” work that’s been done by the Consumer Partnership for eHealth – another great group I’d never heard of. I’m loving the way Web 2.0 [...]