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Month: February 2020

Wellness and Walmart: Where Healthcare Meets Retail

Wellness and Walmart: Where Healthcare Meets Retail

February 26, 2020 “Attention on aisle seven, the doctor will see you now!” One doesn’t usually associate these two commonly understood and culturally engrained phrases in tandem. They don’t typically go together, at least not in our historical framework. Now, however, America’s biggest retailer is making a push into the healthcare space; and, with their unlimited resources and market omnipresence, a new synergy may be in the offing.  Walmart—the world’s largest chain of retail stores—is throwing its hat into the…

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An Epic Struggle: EMR Giant Enlists 60 Hospitals Against HHS

An Epic Struggle: EMR Giant Enlists 60 Hospitals Against HHS

February 12, 2020The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has promulgated a Proposed Rule designed to make it easier for patients to access their electronic health records.  This sounds reasonable enough.  Who could possibly be against this objective?  The answer is no one, but there is strong opposition to some of the requirements found in the Rule that would negatively impact costs and calendars.  In other…

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