The facility will
care for confirmed cases from any of the 11 public hospitals in the New York City
Health and Hospitals
Corporation (HHC) and any suspected cases among patients who fly
into John F. Kennedy or LaGuardia airports.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto / LeventKonuk Four years ago the Obama administration offered up $ 19 billion in stimulus funds to help get
health care IT (including electronic
health records, or EHRs) in the pink — or at least in the black.Better information technology throughout the
health care system would save money, improve
care and bring the
health care industry
into the 21st century, proponents argued.But, as is obvious by the continuance of paper records, isolated institutional networks and clunky interfaces,
health care IT is still in critical condition.A new report, assembled by the RAND
Corporation, a non-profit, non-partisan research group, suggests that
health care IT is not a hopeless case, however.
In today's case (Cambie Surgeries
Corporation v. British Columbia) the Plaintiffs, who are suing the government of BC arguing certain Provincial
health -
care laws are unconstitutional, sought to introduce articles and texts cited by their expert witnesses
into evidence.
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into an employee with skills as a
Health Care Management executive servicing a wide array of global
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