Hard agree, and not just because I'm a spreadsheet nerd. Why are we all here? Isn't it in the service…
Morning Headlines 12/12/17
Hopkins taps Duke executive to head medical system
Johns Hopkins Health System names Kevin Sowers, current president and CEO of Duke University Hospital, as its next president.
More delays, cost overruns hit Vancouver electronic health project
In Canada, a local paper profiles the Cerner implementation at Vancouver Coastal Health, the Provincial Health Services Authority, and Providence Health Care, which executives say is now $130 million over budget and a year behind schedule.
HHS announces the winners of the HHS Opioid Code-a-Thon
HHS announces winners from its Opioid Code-a-Thon, an innovation challenge that attracted 50 teams comprised of programmers and public health advocates that worked together for 24 hours to create data-driven tools that could be used to combat the epidemic.
OIG Advisory Opinion No. 17-07
HHS OIG approves a pilot program that will allow a pharmaceutical manufacturer to fund and implement integration points between a community hospital and community pharmacists so that pharmacists would gain real-time access to patient discharge information.
Dear Universe,
We’re about to commit $10 billion to the largest health IT project our government has ever undertaken. If you have any advice for us, now would be the time. We’re just askin’ for a sign – ANY SIGN – that we might not be getting what we signed up for.
Blindly,
The VA