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Weekender 6/22/18

HIStalk Weekender

Can you imagine if you’d been on an EHR for 70+ years and have to now rattle off 100 different medications that you’re not taking since you were born? Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Still think it’s a good design decision and patient to blame? ( Get Involved.

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Mississippi provider org's use of telehealth enables huge turnaround during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. THE PROBLEM. "At best, services were offered telephonically. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Weekender 7/6/18

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CNBC reports on “why telemedicine has been such a bust so far”. Children and adults are getting the care they desperately need but cannot access, stroke victims live normal lives and when tragedy strikes, and you find yourself in the ICU it is telemedicine that helps get home quicker. T-System President and CEO Roger Davis resigns.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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Weekender 9/28/18

HIStalk Weekender

VA Secretary Robert Wilkie tells the Senate VA Committee that he and representatives at the DoD are working to create a “single point of authority” for their respective EHR projects with Cerner. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Weekly News Recap. Best Reader Comments.

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