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I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
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Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
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CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
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CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
CMS has a communications problem. Together with the Joint Commission, CMS issued joint guidance on the use of SMS messaging for clinical communications just over a year ago. Last month, the Health Care Compliance Association published a story stating that CMS had sent emails to two different hospitals stating that text messaging (including secure messaging services) is verboten.
I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
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I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
I spoke recently with Cindy Friend , who is Vice President of Clinical Population Health Solutions & Transformation at Caradigm – a GE Healthcare company Twitter: @caradigm. Cindy is a registered nurse with more than 20 years combined experience in healthcare administration, clinical delivery, and health information technology both in the public and private sectors.
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