New electronic health record system goes live in Walla Walla
The latest site to implement the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic health record (EHR) system has gone live. VA rolled out the EHR system at the Jonathan M. Wainwright…
MercyOne acquired by Michigan-based Catholic health care system
Iowa-based MercyOne is set to be acquired by a Michigan-based Catholic health care system that already spans 25 states.Trinity Health and CommonSpirit Health announced Tuesday that Trinity Health will acquire…
A Freelancer’s Forty-Three Years in the American Health-Care System
When my grandson was three, he picked up a raisin that someone had stepped on. It was flat and round. He held it by the edges with the tips of…
Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress
KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her hospital crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants in the malnutrition ward. Her mother, Balqisa, had brought the…
Hackers breached Florida health care system, potentially exposing data on 1.3 million people
Social Security numbers, patient medical history and bank account information are among the data that have been exposed in the breach of Broward Health, a network of over 30 health…