Morning Headlines 7/12/21
A VA OIG review of the VA’s first go-live finds that inadequate training contributed to a decrease in user productivity, as poor training design and ineffective Cerner trainers left users unsure of how to use the system to perform their jobs.
Surveyed physicians recommend improvements to EHR inbox functionality, some of them involving redesigning the system to work more like email.
Biden calls for efforts to lower drug prices as part of executive order to foster competition
A White House executive order directs the Justice Department and FTC to review hospital merger guidelines and for the federal government to move forward with mandatory hospital price disclosure.
Sounds reasonable, until you look at the Silicon Valley experience. Silicon Valley grew like a weed precisely because employees could…