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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Within UCHealth's EHR, providers can now see previously inaccessible data, like lower-cost options. "Physician shortages, already projected to be severe before COVID, have almost become a public health emergency," he added. physicians was 62.8% in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4%

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. After The Jungle was published.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health.

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