Morning Headlines 8/13/14
Dallas County gets futuristic general hospital
A local paper highlights some of the technology being installed at Dallas-based Parkland Memorial Hospital, a $1.3 billion “digital hospital” set to open in May 2015.
The new No. 1 private-sector employer
Cerner has grown to become the top private sector employer in Kansas City, driven by a hiring spree that added 1,500 new hires in the past year.
Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web
Apple is reportedly in discussions with Allscripts, Johns Hopkins, Mount Sinai, and Cleveland Clinic as it continues recruiting new digital health partners ahead of its upcoming HealthKit rollout.
Telemedicine could yield $6B per year in savings
A new study claims that adopting telemedicine as the primary means of treating certain non-urgent conditions could theoretically save US employers $6 billion annually.
Giving a patient medications in the ER, having them pop positive on a test, and then withholding further medications because…