As a pelvic health physiotherapist, I considered myself an expert in diastasis recti. After all, I’d been treating the condition for nearly 20 years in my patients. Then, after my third pregnancy, I diagnosed the condition in myself. Despite all my education and experience, my first reaction was fear. Because the conventional wisdom for so… Read More »
Not that long ago, Robert Alexander was a Las Vegas whale. He blew thousands in nightclubs, bet even more at craps and bragged about winning $ 7.8 million at the Golden Nugget. He boasted about his role in the success of the hit video game “Grand Theft Auto” and sat on the board of its… Read More »
In what’s being billed as one of the biggest yet cloud migrations of an Epic electronic health record deployment, Novant Health has moved its mission-critical applications to Virtustream’s cloud hosting servers. WHY IT MATTERSThe Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based, not-for-profit health system serving four states migrated its Epic environment to Virtustream’s cloud servers as a way to… Read More »
Dive Brief: CMS will hold off on updating the controversial hospital star ratings pending a review from an expert panel, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Healthcare Dive on Friday. CMS is convening a technical panel composed of industry experts to look at the methodology it uses to calculate the ratings and recommend improvements to the… Read More »
July 12, 2019 — Tropical Storm Barry is looming ever closer to residents of Louisiana. Concerns about heavy rains and flooding aren’t limited to Louisiana. Mississippi, the Florida Panhandle, and Alabama are also at risk of flooding and extreme rain. President Donald Trump declared a federal emergency for Louisiana to start coordinating relief efforts between… Read More »
Shift to single platform puts hospitals, physician practices on the same records system. Mohawk Valley Health System, a two-campus delivery system serving the Utica, N.Y., region, went live enterprisewide on the Epic electronic health record on June 29, which for the first time puts the two hospitals and physician practices on the same platform. The… Read More »