Category: News
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Oklahoma Gazette: OCCHD, others receive a federal grant to bridge gap between social, medical care
A year from now, when a mother brings her sick child suffering from a nagging cough into a local emergency room, they will leave with more than just a prescription for an asthma inhaler. Under a new experimental program, the mother and her child would answer a series of questions that could reveal a mold…
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Report: Reducing Medicare Spending Through Electronic Information Exchange
A 2016 report from researchers at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and Harvard University finds that Health Information Exchanges (like MyHealth) reduced costs for Medicare beneficiaries by an average of $139 a year from 2003-2009. Translated nationally, that could result in $8.7 billion in savings annually if HIE’s were operating in all markets. It would…