High Earners Make Relatively Smaller Tax Errors
Chris EdwardsSenate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D ‑OR) held a hearing last week to counter the House Republican plan to cut the recent IRS enforcement boost. Sen. Wydensaid, “If you’re looking for the big winners of the McCarthy IRS defunding plan, it’s billionaires and corporations who cheat on their taxes … Repealing that funding is a $191 billion giveaway to wealthy tax cheats.”Ioffered a different view at the hearing. I noted that tax enforcement imposes collateral damage, that the tax gap has been stable for decades, and that the U.S. tax gap appears to be smaller than Europe ’s. The “tax ga...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Oft Forgotten Benefits of Multi-Cloud in Healthcare
I remember the days when cloud was almost a dirty word in healthcare. Most healthcare CIOs probably saw the writing on the wall that cloud was the future, but there was a lot of fear going to the cloud. Now every healthcare organization is not just in the cloud but is multi-cloud. What’s interesting about healthcare’s move to the cloud is that we often forget the benefits of multi-cloud when it comes to things like patient outcomes and clinician experience.
This was the topic of discussion at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference in the session titled “CXO Spotlight: Improve Patient Outcomes and Clinicia...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bill Wilson Clinician Experiences COVID-19 Geoffrey Brown Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Multi-Cloud Healthcare Scene Featured H Source Type: blogs
The Libertarian behind the World ’s First Freedom of the Press Act
Johan NorbergUNESCO has just designated the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 a“Memory of the World.” It ’s a well‐deserved honor. This more than 250‐year old document, enacted during a period of strong parliamentary power in Sweden, is the world’s first freedom of the press act, signed into law ten years before the United States of America even existed.In defense of “unrestricted mutual enlightenment,” the1766 act created a constitutional right to publish one’s thoughts and ideas, abolished censorship (in everything but theological texts) and introduced the principle of public access to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Johan Norberg Source Type: blogs
Cascade Health Announces Venture Funding Round to Build Intelligent Platform for Healthcare Transparency
Company’s Advanced Generative AI-Powered Cloud Platform Creates Clarity Around Healthcare Pricing, Coverage for Consumers, Employers, Government Agencies, Hospitals, Insurance Companies, and Other Businesses in the Healthcare Industry
Cascade Health, an intelligent platform for healthcare transparency, announced it has raised $1.7 million in venture funding led by AlleyCorp with participation from other strategic angel investors. The company also announced the launch of its first two products: a generative AI assistant to personalize the consumer experience with full visibility around cost and quality of care, as w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI AI-Powered Cloud AlleyCorp Ana-Maria Constantin API Artificial Intelligence Cascade Health Datasets Generative AI Generative AI Assistant Generative AI-Powered Cloud Platform Health IT Funding Source Type: blogs
Global health framework: working together towards a healthier world
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - This framework for 2023 to 2025 sets out how the UK government will play a leading role in improving health globally and building resilience to future threats. It seeks to maximise the combined impact of the UK's investments, innovation and engagement with important partners around the world on a bilateral and multilateral basis. It also aims to maximise impact working with global partners from industry, academia, funders, and civil society organisations to shape global policy and health outcomes.Policy paperMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: blogs
California Tries Charging for Electricity Based on Income
Marc JoffeIn California, private sector innovation is giving way to public sector experimentation. From the state that pioneered special gasoline formulations, cap ‐and‐trade, and natural gas bans, we now have income‐based electricity billing. While this idea may seem like a reasonable response to the problem of moderate‐income families being priced out of the state, a better approach would be to tackle the underlying causes of high energ y prices.A2022 state law instructed the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) to replace a flat monthly charge for the fixed costs of providing electricity w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Collateral Damage of IRS Audits
Chris EdwardsThe Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 boosted the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget over the coming decade by $79 billion, most of which is for increased enforcement. President Biden ’s March budget includes the new spending and would more than triple enforcement outlays by 2031. House Republicans have proposed cutting the new IRS funding as part of the debt deal being negotiated.At a Senate Finance Committee hearing last week,I argued that jacking up enforcement and auditing would cause collateral damage to the private sector. There are better ways to reduce taxpayer errors, including simplifying the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
From Debt Ceiling Crisis to Debt Crisis
Romina BocciaThe U.S. government teeters on the brink of defaulting on its payment obligations over the next few weeks as the debt limit threatens to bind in early June. There ’s been extensivecoverage about the potential for catastrophic impacts on the economy if Congress and the President do not raise the debt ceiling. What ’s missing from the debate is serious consideration of the potentially catastrophic longer‐term scenario the United States could face if spending and debt continue growing unabated.Current debt limit discussions are indicative of the myopia that characterizes the federal budget process. A d...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
It Is Clear We Are Seeing More Interest In AI And Digital Health Recently.
I thought it was worth letting people know about this:-----"AIDH is working with the
Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare on
developing a national policy agenda for AI in healthcare.It
is our intention that the policy agenda be backed by evidence and
high-level experti se so that it can assist all levels of government,
industry and civil society to maximise the (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
How RPM Can Reduce AI ’s Bias Problem & Improve Health Equity
The following is a guest article by Arnaud Rosier, PhD, Founder and CEO at Implicity
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising breakthrough technologies of the modern healthcare era, yet it also has the potential to be one of the most dangerous. AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.
Unfortunately, research shows that bias is already creeping into the nascent field of AI an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academic Medical Center Ai Algorithm AI bias AMC Arnaud Rosier PhD Artificial Intelligence Dr. Arnaud Rosier HCP Source Type: blogs
Hearing Remarks: Protecting American Families from Higher Taxes
Adam N. MichelI recently testified for the Senate Budget Committee on the topic of taxes, economic growth, and budget deficits.You can read my full written testimonyhere, and watch the hearinghere. Below is a lightly edited version of the three main points I emphasized in my oral remarks.First, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a success. Second, tax cuts did not cause the federal deficit. And third, the topic of this hearing is really about the appropriate size and scope of government—a topic on which reasonable people can disagree. However, if Congress decides that the current trajectory of federal spending does ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
MultiPlan Acquires Leading Healthcare Data and Analytics Firm Benefits Science LLC
Ushers in a New Era of the Company, Accelerates Launch of New Data & Decision Science Service Line with a World-Class Data & Analytics Platform and Team at BST
MultiPlan Corporation (MultiPlan or the Company), a leading provider of technology and data-enabled cost management, payment, and revenue integrity solutions to the U.S. healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired Benefits Science LLC (Benefits Science Technologies or BST), a next generation data and advanced analytics company that combines modern data science, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), with deep expertise i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Artificial Intelligence Benefits Science LLC Benefits Science Technologies BenInsights BofA Securities Inc. BST Dale White Data & Decision Science Data & Decision Science Service Line Dimitris Ber Source Type: blogs
Rural mental health
In this report, MPs express concern about how isolation, poor public transport and a relative lack of digital connectivity have contributed to poor mental health outcomes for all categories of people across rural communities in England, but especially among farm workers and vets. It calls for greater joined-up planning and action from the government to address the issue.ReportEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 18, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
The Disease Killing Healthcare and Causing Physician Burnout
BY SCOTT MACDIARMID
We have a healthcare crisis . . . and the crisis is now. Costs are soaring out of control, threatening the financial health of individuals and our nation. Quality of care is deteriorating, in spite of “world class care” signs seemingly on every corner. And physicians are checking out and burning out. I believe it’s one of the greatest societal issues of our day.
So, you may be wondering: How in the heck did we get ourselves into such a mess? In the greatest country in the world who spends the most on healthcare and is regularly bragging on how great it is, what happened?
Experts and pun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Burnout Healthcare system Scott MacDiarmid Source Type: blogs
The Fifth Amendment is Self ‐Executing
Ilya Somin andIsaiah McKinneyRichard Devillier and his family owned property abutting a highway in northern Texas, alongside other property owners. Texas built a dam next to their property to keep flood waters from flowing across the highway, which would have made it impassible. But this damming to protect the highway instead flooded and damaged the Devilliers’ property. When the Devilliers and other property owners sued for the taking of their property via the flooding, their claim was dismissed because states are sovereignly immune from lawsuits.The Devilliers had sued in state court, claiming that the state owed th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Somin, Isaiah McKinney Source Type: blogs
