Morning Headlines 7/3/18
VA looks to scrap Epic scheduling contract
Politico reports that the VA will not move forward with its MASS patient scheduling project – powered by Epic — despite recent assurances that a system-wide rollout would be much cheaper and faster than originally estimated, choosing to go with the equivalent Cerner modules instead.
Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem With AI
Employees of acquired companies Phytel, Explorys, and Truven are hit hardest by staffing cuts as laid-off IBM engineers claim that former KLAS-topping population health management technology vendor Phytel has lost half its customer base and 80 percent of its employees under IBM’s ownership.
HHS OIG releases a SAS-powered tool that allows health plans to analyze their prescription drug claims data to identify at-risk patients.
Netsmart Finalizes Acquisition of Change Healthcare Home Care and Hospice Solutions
Netsmart completes its acquisition of the solutions formerly owned by McKesson.
I literally cannot imagine any circumstances where the replacement of VistA was not troublesome. VistA was custom designed for the…
VA is a much more complicated rollout since there are so many different interactions and configurations of VistA. In addition,…
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I agree, in my haste I did grab some older studies. Here is a meta-analysis (albeit from Australia) which is…
Participants in a randomized trial have to be able and willing to be part of the trial regardless of what…