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Weekender 5/18/18

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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. Deliver an educational webinar (providers). Weekly News Recap. Be interviewed (providers).

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Weekender 10/5/18

HIStalk Weekender

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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Weekender 8/3/18

HIStalk Weekender

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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The hospital also gives employees the opportunity to take free health promotion classes, including online resources and webinars. National Medical Billing Services (St. National Medical Billing Services provides revenue cycle outsourcing services for ASCs and affiliated surgeons. Nordic (Madison, Wis.).