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Measles has a devastating and long-term effect on your immune system

By Debora MacKenzie The MMR vaccine protects against measlesJIM WEST/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Measles is known to make children vulnerable to other infections. Now two major studies of Dutch Orthodox Protestants, who reject vaccination, have discovered why: it massively damages the immune system, making measles even more lethal than we realised. That is bad news, as… Read More »

Will Amazon Deliver a Single-Payer Health Care System for the U.S.?

By JOE GRACE Amazon has quietly put together a syndicate including Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan to provide better and more affordable health care for their combined 1.2 million workers.  The joint effort, called Haven, makes sense because many companies of size today are self-insured to provide health care at lower costs. But this is… Read More »

Anne Arundel Health System’s acquisition of Doctors Community Health System finalized

Maryland-based Anne Arundel Health System has signed a definitive agreement, along with Doctors Community Health System, to merge and form a new entity, with the new health system as yet unnamed. While full integration is expected to take a couple of years, a name for the new health system will be unveiled this summer. WHAT’S… Read More »

Novant Health migrates its Epic EHR system to the cloud

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 »