Cant you sue the F&B company for fraud if they said they paid you money but never did?
Morning Headlines 2/10/17
Judge, Citing Harm to Customers, Blocks $48 Billion Anthem-Cigna Merger
A federal judge blocks the proposed $48 billion merger between Anthem and Cigna. The decision comes just two weeks after another federal judge blocked a similar merger between Aetna and Humana.
A Black Book survey on interoperability finds that 70 percent of hospitals are not using any patient information generated outside of their EHR.
Nurse spared jail over fatal blood transfusion blunder
A nurse in England is spared jail time after transfusing a patient with blood of the wrong blood type, ultimately causing his death. The nurse opened the wrong chart in the hospital’s EHR to verify the patient’s blood type, explaining that both patients had the same last name and it was not clear to her that she was in the wrong chart.
Baidu shuts mobile health care unit to focus on artificial intelligence
Chinese search engine Baidu shuts down its mobile health business unit to focus on its AI-powered healthcare research unit.
“A Black Book survey on interoperability finds that 70 percent of hospitals are not using any patient information generated outside of their EHR.”
Pathetic huh? And probably 99% BARELY use patient info outside their own EHR.
At some point, CMS/ONC will realize that the draconian EHR cert requirements, massive hyper-regulatory data entry activities on front line MDs, has caused extensive harm to the practice of medicine.
We are in big trouble in this country with non-clinical admins piling on working MDs. All these “value” based reporting actions, P4P, ACO, Bundles, MACRA, etc. are never going to succeed and set back real progress at least a decade. Do people really think big factory corporate medicine is the answer?
Is anyone listening out there?