Morning Headlines 9/23/14
Billing dispute leads to blocked patient data in Maine
A small practice in upstate Maine is fighting back after its EHR vendor suspends access to its hosted EHR for falling 10 months behind on its $2,000 monthly maintenance payments.
AMIA welcomes Douglas B. Fridsma, MD, PhD, as New President and CEO
Douglas Fridsma, MD, PhD, and Chief Science Officer with the ONC will leave his position to become the CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association.
W.H.’s Steve VanRoekel to take tech to Ebola fight
White House CIO Steve VanRoekel resigns to join the USAID, where he will work as a senior adviser in the fight to halt the Ebola outbreak.
Such compassion for the relative you showed--not likely to be built into EHR/AI soon, as it is increasingly so lacking…