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Theresa Meadows, SVP & CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System, Chapter 1

Health System CIO

Meadows also discusses the tricky transition from nursing to IT, how her nursing background has helped shape her leadership strategy, and the mistake CIOs can’t afford to make. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. About Cook Children’s. Upgrading to Meditech 6.1.

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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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Branding, Cheerleading, and even some Progress

Chilmark Research

While payers evangelize the idea of understanding all the other parts of our lives, they shouldn’t forget our tendencies as patients – how we perceive and realistically interact with our health insurer versus our doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmacies, and so on. EHR Vendors: Mixed Reviews.

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The Time Has Come to Digitize Behavioral Healthcare

Digital Health Today

Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, pharmacists and others are often contributing concurrently to manage a single patient’s care. In many cases, executive leadership recognizes the risk of foisting unhelpful systems on clinicians that are already overburdened.

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