Ageed Mike, "patients are the widgets that must be processed" additionally when it costs close to $3,700 a month for…
Morning Headlines 12/14/16
CommonWell will integrate its health information exchange network with Carequality, allowing customer organizations to exchange health information through direct queries across both networks. Epic is a Carequality member, while Cerner and many other notable vendors are CommonWell members.
California Prison Record System Cost Doubles to $386 Million
The cost of a Cerner implementation aimed at modernizing the paper-based medical records system used by California’s prison system has doubled from the original budget of $182 million to nearly $400 million.
Chief data officer leaving Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Niall Brennan, the chief data officer at CMS, will leave ahead of the change of administrations, and will be replaced by his deputy, Chris Cox.
Retired carer left to die after hospital replaced ‘old-fashioned’ whiteboard with computer system
In England, a woman dies when clinical staff inadvertently stop rounding on her after replacing their traditional unit whiteboard with an electronic patient census system.
Where are the people who want to call out vendor overages?
DoD way over, way late and now claiming that the original tender didn’t include world wide deployment (yes it did!).
And now this over by double?
If you guys want to use HISTalk to call out overages, then let’s get after Cerner for HUGE and ONGOING underbids and overages.
I think that first URL for Carequality/Commonwell is off – it’s sending to a 2014 post.