Henry Louis Gehrig, eMRs and Healthcare Reform
What’s the “Iron Horse” Got to Do with Health IT? By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] According to UPI reports from Charlestown, WVa on August 24 2009, at least 1,200 veterans...
View ArticleHow Proprietary HIT Vendors May Demolish Health Reform
Top Five Issues from the Longman Report By Staff Reporters Here are the top five quotes from the Longman Report. The author, Phillip Longman, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the...
View ArticleThe VistA Client Server System
What it is – How it works By ME-P Staff Reporters According to Dr. Richard Mata MS, a client-server system configuration occurs when one or more “repository” computers [ known as “servers”] store large...
View ArticleIn Severe Pandemic, Officials Ponder Disconnecting Ventilators
Understanding the So-Called New York Protocol By Sheri Fink ProPublica News With scant public input, state and federal officials are pushing ahead with plans that — during a severe flu outbreak — would...
View ArticleGrading the Public Options That Already Exist
Understanding Existing Healthcare Plans By Sabrina Shankman, www.ProPublica.org October 28, 2009 12:27 pm EDT What might a public health option look like in practice? One way to find out is to look at...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Mental Healthcare Regulatory Environment
Appreciating the Rules By Carol Miller; RN, MBA www.HealthcareFinancials.com Local counties and municipalities are the primary providers of state mental healthcare for patients who lack private...
View ArticleAfghanistan and Iraq’s Healthcare Costs
An Informative Infographic ### ### Assessment Over the next 40 years, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans will need an estimated $750 billion in healthcare, a challenge for the VA to innovate, especially...
View ArticleIs the VA Worth Saving?
Veterans Affairs discovers off-label use for HIPAA [Whistleblower Control?] [By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS] “VA uses patient privacy to go after whistleblowers, critics say,” by Joe Davidson for The...
View ArticleHITECH: A politically-correct Scam?
Update on HITECH By Kellus Pruitt DDS “How bad science can lead to bad science journalism — and bad policy – This is what happens when news organizations don’t catch lousy studies.” By Stephen Soumerai...
View ArticleA Veteran’s Suicide in Front of VA Clinic
Self Immolation [By staff reporters] A veteran committed suicide by setting himself on fire in front of a New Jersey VA clinic after staff at the clinic repeatedly failed to ensure he received adequate...
View ArticleEPIC V.A. Fail Admitted?
Still Seeking Private Medical Care? [By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA] The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to shift billions of dollars from government-run veterans’ hospitals to private health...
View ArticleUPDATE: Memorial Day 2022
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA *** *** *** MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2021/05/30/some-memorial-day-thoughts-2021/ *** COMMENTS APPRECIATED Thank You ***
View ArticleDR KENT: First Interview on Informed Public Healthcare Policy Political...
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA [Editor-in-Chief] We have a healthcare crisis . . . and the crisis is now. Costs are soaring out of control, threatening the physical and financial health of...
View ArticleFEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAMS: Defined
By Staff Reporters *** *** Theranos founder and ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes was just banned from US federal health care programs for nine decades, according to the US the health department. Holmes was...
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