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attack December 20, 2022 -- My colleague and friend Karen Hunter, an informatics nurse and director at CommonSpirit Health, America's second-largest non-profit healthcare chain, spoke with me about how her work was hugely impacted by a recent cyber attack. (Becker describes it here and here.) Their computers were immobilized. 620,000 patient records were stolen. For Karen on the front lines it was a nightmare. Even on a normal day, the job of the informatics nurse is challenging... Read more. Go cyber-savvy informatics nurses! |
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Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
Nursing Informatics · Clinical Perspectives · Healthcare Systems
"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798