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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Far too often the primary care doctor never learns about these health issues that are addressed at hospitals. It’s basically HIPAA secure email for doctors.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

A new KLAS report on hospital market share finds that Epic beat Cerner handily in new hospital gains excluding Cerner’s one-time VA deal, with Cerner losing 65 Millennium hospitals vs. Epic losing one. HHS announces that it will use its discretion to reduce maximum annual HIPAA fines based on level of culpability.

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