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AHIP keynotes offer road map to health reform's future

As I mulled over the AHIP Institute's keynote speakers, my thoughts drifted to a quote that struck me as quite apropos to their proposed agendas: "Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the

GOP presidential candidates boast health IT ties

Three of the putative or declared candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination--Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney--have associations with health information technology, one of

Minnesota gets approval to expand Medicaid coverage

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved a plan to provide coverage to an additional 12,000 low-income Minnesotans and expand existing coverage to 83,000 others, reports the

MN plans PHRs for all citizens by 2011

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has proposed giving all of the state's citizens access to a personal health record by 2011, beginning the rollout in 2009 with a PHR for each of the state's 50,000-odd

MN governor vetoes medical debt history bill

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has vetoed a bill that would have banned healthcare providers from collecting, using