HHS To Award $235M To B...

On Wednesday, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the launch of a $235 million initiativeto support community-based models for electronic health record adoption, Federal Computer Week reports (Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week, 12/2). Of the funds, HHS will award...

Ask the HIT Nurse...

I want to try a new column here.  This will be an evolution of a previous column, “InterOpNurse Thoughts” that started but never really took off.  I am calling my new column “Ask the HIT Nurse.”  This is for a lack of a better slogan for this column,...

InterOpNurse Thoughts: ...

Its been a while since I posted under this category, but I find the times, very fitting for such a post.  My organization just went through a mini "go-live" of what I like to call enhancements.  In this process, it has been decided to go-live with a specialty unit that...

InterOpNurse Thoughts...

Here I am at the gym. I just finished working out, trying to relieve some of the days stress. I just got into a situation, where in I am fixing a mess an employee of mine created for me. What it boiled down to, is the inability to communicate and pay attention to...

Technology Helps Nurses...

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