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Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement
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5:48 AM
More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement: 1. Layoffs to balance the budget... http://www.news-record.com...
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Ed Donald
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Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust
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UPMC
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Want to help a hospital go bankrupt? Get a bad EHR - Westchester hospitals' sale price over $54 million, Hospitals' debt about $200M
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5:32 AM
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on June 3, 2013 - Sound Shore Medical Center (New Rochelle, NY) is filing for bankruptcy protectio...
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Montefiore Medical Center
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Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"
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1:53 PM
A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' su...
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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Wake Forest University
Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"
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4:24 PM
In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " ...
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Maine Medical Center
The HIT Scam
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7:53 AM
Worth a read - The HIT Scam By Greg Scandlen Notable in the pi ece are these observations: ... even the editors of the Washington Post ...
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House Ways And Means, and Energy and Commerce, Note EHRs Not What They Were Made Out To Be, Calls For HITECH Moratorium
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7:07 AM
I have called numerous times for a moratorium on ambitious national health IT programs. See 2008 and 2009 posts here and here for example...
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Dave Camp
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Fred Upton
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House Energy and Commerce Committee
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Joe Pitts
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Wally Herger
WSJ, Koppel and Soumerai: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records - Cost Savings Illusory
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3:24 AM
Two EHR experts from Ivy-league institutions (which are typically hyperenthusiast-oriented) doubt cost savings from EHR technology. Wall Str...
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Vermont: Despite $70 million investment, health IT systems a long way from prime time - "Problems are appropriate"
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4:14 AM
Preliminary note: This post is rich with hyperlinks. At minimum I recommend opening them in another window and at least scanning their con...
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University of Arizona Medical Center, $10 million in the red in operations, to spend $100M on new EHR system
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8:17 PM
In my Oct. 2006 post " $70 million for an Electronic Medical Records system? " I wrote: ... healthcare doesn’t have the capital fo...
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EHRs and test ordering: Health Affairs authors reply to ONC
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7:25 AM
At my March 9, 2012 post " Increased Lab Ordering with EHR's? " I refuted ONC's response to a Harvard-based research study...
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Farzad Mostashari
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Stephanie Woolhandler
Another Health IT Mythbuster: Doctors order more X-rays, not fewer, with computer access
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9:37 AM
This piece is in the Washington Post about a just-released piece in Health Affairs ( at this link ) by Danny McCormick, David H. Bor, Stepha...
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