MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'harmonization'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:28 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4389176&cid=t_147083_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxPMowgGLFf4%2F By Daniel J. MitchellThere’s a supposed expose’ in the U.K.-based Daily Mail about how major British companies have subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions. It even includes this table with the ostensibly shocking numbers. This is quite akin to the propaganda issued by American statists. Here’s a table from a report issued by a left-wing group that calls itself “Business and Investors Against Tax Haven Abuse.” At the risk of being impolite, I’ll ask the appropriate rhetorical question: What do these tables mean? Are the leftists upset that multinational companies exist? If so, there’s really no point in having a discussion. Are they angry that these firms are legally trying to minimize tax? If so, they must not understand that management has a fidu... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4389176 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:32:12 +0100 4389176 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013550&cid=t_147083_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FDsZNX7-Tasc%2F Responding to years of complaints that safety risks are being downplayed or ignored during the drug development process, the FDA has just issued a final rule for reporting safety information that crops up during clinical trials. This new rule requires certain safety info, which was was not required to be reported in the past, to be submitted within 15 days of when a drugmaker becomes aware of an issue. To wit, drugmakers must report findings from clinical or epidemiological studies that suggest a significant risk to study participants; serious suspected adverse reactions that occur at a rate higher than expected and serious adverse events from bioavailability studies which determine what percentage and at what rate a drug is absorbed by the bloodstream as well as bioequivalence studies tha... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013550 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:58:35 +0100 4013550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3718382&cid=t_147083_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsPvhQSrvB5M%2F By Daniel J. MitchellMany people assume that Europe is the land of high-tax welfare states and America is an outpost of laissez-faire capitalism. We should be so lucky. The burden of government in America is still lower than it is in the average European nation, but the United States is a lot closer to France than it is to Hong Kong — and the trend is not comforting. We recently endured the embarrassing spectacle of President Obama arguing with Europeans that they should increase the burden of government spending. Now we have a new report from the European Commission indicating that the average corporate tax rate in member nations of the European Union has plummeted to just 23.5 percent while the corporate tax rate in the U.S. has stagnated at 35 percent. In the past dozen years a... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3718382 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:10:33 +0100 3718382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3408356&cid=t_147083_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTE1FZr8ft2I%2F By Daniel J. MitchellGreece is in trouble for a combination of reasons. Government spending is far too excessive, diverting resources from more efficient uses. The bureaucracy is too large and paid too much, resulting in a misallocation of labor. And tax rates are too high, further hindering the productive sector of the economy. Europe’s political class wants to bail out Greece’s profligate government. The official reason for a bailout, to protect the euro currency, makes no sense. After all, if Illinois or California default, that would not affect the strength (or lack thereof) of the dollar. To understand what is really happening in Europe, it is always wise to look at what politicians are doing and ignore what they are saying. Political union is the religion of Europe’... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3408356 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:06:32 +0100 3408356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1027071&cid=t_147083_113_f&fid=34635&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hittransition.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fhit-forums-po-1.html Standards Development Organizations in Development One panel session addressed standards development and implementation, and featured a number of speakers I hold in high regard, along with others whom I hadn't met, but had earned high positions in industry-leading private and public organizations. One of the former was Alix Goss, chair of X12N, the group responsible for developing administrative transaction standards for the insurance industry, including the familiar 837 claim formats. Earlier in the day, Alix told me that X12 had rolled out a more interactive web presence, and had added a forum for the (unofficial) Provider Caucus, of which I had once been a member. She knew I would be pleased, because a few years back, I made a case for expanding provider participation in standards devel... The HIT Transition Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1027071 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:12:03 +0100 1027071 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=931068&cid=t_147083_113_f&fid=34635&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hittransition.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fgates-way-to-he.html In what must be one of the all time editorial coinky-dinky's in recent memory, an editorial from Bill Gates appears in today's Wall Street Journal -- just one day after Microsoft released its Health Vault Personal Health Record portal! But we must admit it's timely. As Bill points out, "a groundbreaking 1999 report on health-care quality" pointed out that our healthcare system kills nearly a hundred thousand Americans a year, and a 2001 followup "urged swifter adoption of information technology." And George Bush Jr. even mentioned HIT in his 2006 State of the Union. Stop the presses! I'm from Bellevue and I'm Here to Help You Not to worry, Microsoft is on the case. "We envision a comprehensive, Internet-based system that enables health-care providers to automatically deliver personal healt... The HIT Transition Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=931068 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:38:49 +0100 931068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=869465&cid=t_147083_113_f&fid=34635&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hittransition.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fwedi-nchica-to-.html Those of us who work in healthcare IT have this mental cascade of imperatives: regulations, new versions of standards, Medicare mandates and more. It stretches back in time and on forward into seeming infinity, a dizzying ladder of challenges with strings of letters and numbers indicating the rungs: IPPS, HIPAA, TCS, 4010A1, NPI, ICD-10, 5010, AHIC, ad infinitum. The trouble is, we are supposed to be familiar with all of them; what's more, we frequently get assigned to implementing multiple initiatives at the same time. Worse, we are often called upon to implement one intiative (say, the National Provider Identifier Final Rule) when the feds have left out a necessary pre-requisite (like NPI Data Dissemination). When it happens, we say, "What were they thinking?" But a more important respon... The HIT Transition Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=869465 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:09 +0100 869465