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7 In 10 Doctors Favor Pending Legislation To Call For Greater Transparency Of Hospital Finances

Press Release | National Nurses United | June 10, 2014

Most Doctors Believe Pending Legislation for Greater Transparency of Hospital Finances, Profits and CEO Compensation Would Protect Funding for Valuable Patient Care Services-Survey Findings Released as Hospital CEOs Gather for Three Days of Golf, Fine Dining and Networking at the Luxurious Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod...

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A New Meaning for Connected Health (Part 1)

Andy Oram | EMR & HIPPA | November 3, 2016

Those of us engaged in health care think constantly about health. But at the Connected Health symposium, one is reminded that the vast majority of people don’t think much about health at all. They’re thinking about child care, about jobs, about bills, about leisure time. Health comes into the picture only through its impacts on those things. Certainly, some people who have suffered catastrophic traumas–severe accidents, cancer, or the plethora of unfortunate genetic conditions–become obsessed about health to the same extent as health professionals. These people become e-patients and do all the things they need to do regain the precious state of being they enjoyed before their illness, often clashing with the traditional medical establishment in pursuit of health...

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Why The Private Sector Lags VA In Telehealth

Ken Terry | Information Week | August 5, 2013

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has long been ahead of the private sector in health IT. Its VistA electronic health record (EHR) system, for example, was in use throughout the VA's hospitals and ambulatory clinics long before non-VA providers began to adopt EHRs en masse in the past few years. And as recent VA figures show, the department has also left the private sector in the dust in the area of telehealth. Read More »