Morning Headlines 2/19/18
Holy Cross CEO covers payroll, seeks more cuts
Holy Cross Hospital (NM) says its financial problems are due to a problematic software rollout, its conversion to a critical access fee structure, Medicaid payment delays, and a lawsuit judgment that raised its malpractice insurance by $600,000.
US Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2019
Last Thursday’s meeting of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs covered the VA’s FY2019 budget request, with much of the discussion focused on the cost and timing of the Cerner roll out.
MCH’s Cerner implementation showing progress
Texas-based Medical Center Health’s $47 million Cerner roll out suffers implementation problems that Cerner has attributed to hospital clinicians and administrators.
RE: Surescripts survey finds that more than half of of patients have experienced delays or disruption in getting their prescriptions…