The Macro View - General And Health News Relevant To E-Health And Health In General.

The Macro View - General And Health News Relevant To E-Health And Health In General.

Unknown 4/07/2016 Komentar

April 7  EditionThe macroeconomic stresses seem to have eased a little more with markets rising around the world. Indeed the major stock market indices in the US are flat to up for the calendar year. However we are...

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What is more important in healthcare, computers, or nurses and other human beings? Southcoast Health cutting dozens of jobs on heels of expensive IT upgrade

EPIC healthcare IT cost Keith Hovan Southcoast Health

What is more important in healthcare, computers, or nurses and other human beings? Southcoast Health cutting dozens of jobs on heels of expensive IT upgrade

Unknown 4/06/2016 Komentar

That I even have to ask the question on the title of this post is a tragedy and a scandal.I've written a number of posts on this blog about hospitals laying off staff and even put in financial jeopardy due to EHR implementation,...

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

Unknown 3/31/2016 Komentar

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of "misbranding" Oxycontin.  The case appeared to be a landmark.  In previous...

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Medstar Health CEO basically admits EHRs are unnecessary after hackers take out its HIT

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Medstar Health CEO basically admits EHRs are unnecessary after hackers take out its HIT

Unknown 3/30/2016 Komentar

It's corporate spin, of course, but that's the plain meaning of what he says:http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/03/29/medstar-paralyzed-as-hackers-take-aim-at-another-us-hospital/For a second day, the region’s second-largest...

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Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

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Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Unknown 3/30/2016 Komentar

Once again, a definition of bad health IT:Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive...

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