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Weekender 1/4/19

HIStalk Weekender

Health Level Seven International publishes the FHIR Release 4 standard. Agilon’s own reports show that nurses had to review up to 200 care requests per day and their decisions were reviewed only by a private practice family doctor who checked in during breaks from his own medical practice. Weekly News Recap.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

I originally was going to become a psychotherapist and start my own private practice, but I worked for Michelle Obama at one point in my career at the University of Chicago. It was a career transition, a mid-life transition. By 40, I decided I wanted to do something that was more altruistic.