Verizon Unveils ‘Cloud’ Solution to Facilitate Sharing of Patient Information Among Health Care Providers

One of the biggest obstacles to sharing patient information electronically is that health care systems and providers use a wide range of incompatible IT platforms and software to create and store data in various formats.  A new service – the Verizon Health Information Exchange – will soon be available via the “cloud’ to address this challenge.

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Let’s shoot for what we really, really want.

An exciting appointment to head CMS

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, “If you’ve been in government a long time, as I have been, then the most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence. Why is this exciting? Because it’s rare.” When I read the quote, even today, I can hear the late New York senator’s voice booming, his last word full with extra punctuation.

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Ooops

Being an editor, I am well acquainted with error. Unlike medical errors, the effects of my slips and lapses are rarely dangerous. In fact, they’re often humorous, occasionally useful.

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West Florida Hospital Uses Sentri7 to Tackle Anticoagulation Monitoring in Line with the Joint Commission’s NPSG 3

Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software-as-a-service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced that West Florida Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, adopted Sentri7 to give its staff a single point of access to lab results, medication records and patient demographics, data that previously resided in different systems.

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