HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

The VA signs a 10-year, $10 billion contract with Cerner for its new EHR. A GAO report finds that providers sometimes overcharge patients for copies of their medical records and patients sometimes struggle to get their own information. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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HIStalk Weekender

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Cerner announces the partner companies that will serve on its VA EHR modernization team. Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman, who created the physics concept of a “God particle” later discovered as the Higgs boson, dies at 96 after being forced to sell his Nobel statue at auction in 2015 to pay for medical bills and nursing home care.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

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. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

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HIStalk Weekender

AUGUST 3, 2018

billion more for its EHR implementation by mentioning the unstated cost of adding the Coast Guard while redacting the list of “as a service” requirements and their associated costs. Because the earliest EHRs were based on existing clinician workflows, the EHRs merely copied the paper workflow routines. Best Reader Comments.

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