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Doctors Love Alerts Until They Don’t

Healthcare IT Today

You can imagine the EHR Product Manager that had the great idea to alert physicians to a drug to drug interaction or an allergy issue. Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. This sounds great until you get into the nitty gritty details.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. It has nurses and doctors and a cafeteria, and the staff spend their days looking after the very sick?checking The nurses wear scrubs, but the scrubs are very, very clean. The patients are elsewhere.

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Weekender 5/3/19

HIStalk Weekender

Coming back full circle, there is still going to be a market for community hospital IT software but it will be one that is in long-term decline and largely a maintenance market that lives of the 16-20% annual software and maintenance feeds vendors charge (more if they host it). Vaporware? ). SelfInfllictedWound ). Get Involved.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123-bed independent, nonprofit community hospital based in Massachusetts. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).