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Showing posts with label Ebola virus. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ebola virus. Show all posts

Thursday, March 05, 2015

A "PR Pawn" Confounds the Public Relations Burnishing of Texas Health Resources and its CEO

The Ebola virus epidemic in Africa is hopefully winding down. The uproar, if not panic, over Ebola virus in the US has been eclipsed by the...

Monday, December 15, 2014

EHRs and Ebola in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital ED: the ED physician finally speaks out

At my Oct. 2, 2014 post "Did Electronic Medical Record-mediated problems contribute to or cause the current Dallas Ebola scare?" ...

Monday, November 24, 2014

Public Relations and the Obfuscation of Management Errors - Texas Health Resources Dodges its Ebola Questions

Our last posts about how revenue focused, generically managed US health care (non) system would have difficulty handling the threat of the...

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Judy Faulkner and EPIC, Show us your EHR screens

At " Congressional committee releases timeline detailing how Presbyterian treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan ", Dallas News,...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Are Million Dollar Plus Business Trained Managers the Right People to Lead Health Care in the Time of Ebola?

You can guess my opinion on the answer. Introduction News and opinions about Ebola virus are swirling around the US, fueled by a tragic ...

If we had a widespread outbreak of virulent, drug-resistant Bubonic Plague in another country, would we ban travel from that country to ours?

Bubonic plague is known to have killed massive numbers of people in the 6th century and after ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague ...

Thursday, October 09, 2014

The Mystery of the Discharged Ebola Patient - Where is Sherlock Holmes When We Need Him?

As discussion, if not outright panic, about Ebola infections increases in the US, it is still hard to figure out what heath care professiona...

Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Speculation about EHR role in Texas Ebola debacle vs. real evidence - will it take a lawsuit to know what's real? Probably.

In the past several days the media has been abuzz with stories about the admission, then the following retraction, by a Texas hospital that ...

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