Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the HIStalk crowd. I wish you the joys of the season!
Morning Headlines 5/3/17
University Hospitals struck by computer outage
University Hospitals (OH) is working through a network outage that began Monday. Details surrounding the cause of the outage have not yet been disclosed.
Cancer patients in limbo as five hospitals suffer ‘major’ IT crash
In England, five major NHS trusts have started cancelling chemotherapy treatments and surgeries after widespread failures within radiology, PACS, dictation, and chemotherapy systems.
Demystifying Patient Matching Algorithms
ONC announces a $75,000 challenge soliciting patient matching algorithms.
Baptist Memorial and Mississippi Baptist Merge
Baptist Memorial Health Care (TN) and Baptist Health Systems (MS) complete their merger, creating a 21-hospital not-for-profit health system.
HIStalk is officially blocked on NYC H+H’s internal network. This ironic since Ed Marx is a consultant here.
Now it’s back up…
Now it’s back up