Aaand, 4th to last graf, 1st sentence, not a distance, so you would go further, not farther.
Morning Headlines 10/18/13
Sebelius Stands Firm Despite Calls to Resign
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is refusing calls for her resignation after the failed launch of Healthcare.gov.
athenahealth, Inc : athenahealth, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Results
Athenahealth reports Q3 results: revenue jumped to $151 million, up 43 percent from $105 million during Q3 2012. Epocrates accounted for $13 million of that total.
St. Luke’s expects to spend $200 million on electronic records system
Nine-facility St. Luke’s Health System will spend $200 million implementing Epic across all of its hospitals and clinics. The system is expected to be live across the network sometime after 2017.
Data visualization and speech recognition applications are predicted to see a surge in sales according to a recent HIMSS Analytics report.
The healthcare.gov HIE is costly, but at least no patients are dying from the gross failure of the system to perform adequately. HITECH is costing $ billions. Wiring all hospitals is costing $ trillions. Where’s the beef? Sibelius should resign and she should be investigated.