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2018 HIMSS Survey of Priorities for Health Information and Technology

Last week was the most important annual convention for health information technology, HIMSS 2018. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) provides a forum for thought leaders and a venue for innovative products. The 2018 U.S. HIMSS Leadership and Workforce … Continue reading

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Let’s Talk BioPharma Training: 3 Tips for Creating Transparent SOPs

By Peggy Salvatore and Terry McGinn Each company in a regulated industry is required to follow written procedures.  The written procedure describes how steps or tasks are to be followed to achieve the desired outcome or result.  Having these steps … Continue reading

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Standard Operating Procedures and Accountability: Perfect Together

  By Terry McGinn and Peggy Salvatore We’ve been getting quite a bit of interest and feedback regarding our series on standard operating procedures, so we’ll continue writing about this topic this week. After all, inherent in the word “expert” … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: Going for the Gold Edition

  Note to readers: This week’s Health Wonk Review is re-posted in full here. No need to click the link to visit Steve Anderson’s healthinsurance.org website. But if you’d like to comment on his site, click here to get there.  … Continue reading

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Fresh Health Wonk Review for a Fresh New Year

Joe Paduda gets the year started with his  fresh edition of Health Wonk Review: Ring in the New year with the latest and greatest…  posted at Managed Care Matters. Here’s Joe: “Blog posts! Health Wonk Review returns to the inter-webs … Continue reading

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Late Days of the Empire Edition of Health Wonk Review

From Andrew Sprung  of xpostfactoid: We’re addled on many fronts here in Trumpville, and this week’s Health Wonk Review reflects that. We have snapshots of a country that continues to trail its peers in population health measures; an opioid vendor … Continue reading

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A Conversation at #CareTalk and the Short and Sweet Disaster Edition of Health Wonk Review

Let’s talk. In this month’s episode of #CareTalk, CareCentrix CEO John Driscoll and your host, David Williams from Health Business Group chat about the recent hurricanes that have impacted the US and what can be done to protect vulnerable populations. … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: Pink Edition

Mother nature and man’s inhumanity to man have given us no shortage of opportunities to reach out and help our fellow citizens here in the US in the last few weeks where hurricanes, fires and terrorism have taken an ugly … Continue reading

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Health Wonk Review: Suffering from Repeal Fatigue?

Ready for a recap of the ACA repeal efforts? For a litany of the long and winding road, visit Brad Wright at Wright on Health at this link. And, for those who don’t need another rendering of the legislative shenanigans, Brad includes … Continue reading

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Never-Ending Summer of Healthcare Legislation from Health Wonk Review

Yesterday was an eventful day in the health policy world with a Medicare for All bill and Graham-Cassidy both being introduced almost simultaneously … but despite this, Louise Norris was still managed to compile The Neverending Summer of Healthcare Legislation … Continue reading

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