CA has raised smoking age to 21.

Senator Hernandez pushed through the smoking age legislation.

Affordable Care

This is bigger than any other health legislation.

ACA has triggered lots of change:

Consolidation of Health Plans
Large Medical Groups
Hospital System mergers

Big challenges:
– 1/3 of CA population on MediCA

We wrote a law that provides an insurance card for patients but we didn’t address the network of providers needed.
– Patient need growing
– Doctors retiring

Demand in:
– Inner Cities
– Rural communities

The population with highest need but least access.

How do we control health care costs:

Proprietary platforms that don’t speak to each other.
Health records should belong to the patient.

We need to look at how we engage consumers in their own health.

The mobile device is available in even some of the most under resourced areas.

We have to learn to take advantage of the smartphone.

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Mark Scrimshire
Health & Cloud Technology Consultant

Mark is available for challenging assignments at the intersection of Health and Technology using Big Data, Mobile and Cloud Technologies. If you need help to move, or create, your health applications in the cloud let’s talk.
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Disclosure:
I am currently HHS Entrepreneur-in-Residence and CMS BlueButton Innovator working on an assignment to update BlueButton for Medicare Beneficiaries. http://go.cms.gov/bluebutton

The views expressed on this blog are my own.

I am also a Patient Engagement Advisor, CTO and Co-Founder to Medyear.com. Medyear is a powerful tool that helps you collect, organize and securely share health information, however you want. Manage your own health records today.
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