"most people just go to Epic" that's a problem because then EPIC becomes a monopoly in healthcare, if it isn't…
Morning Headlines 10/5/22
Paper charts, canceled appointments at VMFH clinics, hospitals as network outage drags on
Computer networks remain offline at numerous facilities within the multi-state CommonSpirit Health system due to an unspecified IT security incident that occurred Monday.
Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms
STAT reports that Epic now recommends that its sepsis prediction model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, and that the company has changed its definition of sepsis onset to a more commonly accepted standard.
Smile CDR Rebrands to Smile Digital Health
Clinical data repository vendor Smile CDR rebrands to Smile Digital Health to reflect its expanded focus on health data and integration.
The Way Forward for Mental Healthcare: A Message from Dr. David Mou, CEO, Cerebral
Cerebral CEO David Mou, MD vows to enhance the online mental healthcare company’s clinical safeguards and patient identification verification protocols and software, among other changes, in response to scrutiny around its prescribing, marketing, and patient identity verification practices.
Where is CommonSpirit Health’s CIO Suja in all this? Answer: at home. She was quietly fired 6 months ago.