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Scandal: Wealthy Obama Donor Behind Epic Ebola Fail
Radix News ^ | October 8, 2014 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 10/07/2014 9:02:07 PM PDT by Abakumov

A Dallas hospital's bizarre bungle of the first U.S. case of Ebola leaves me wondering: Is someone covering up for a crony billionaire Obama donor and her controversy-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company?

Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its online health records system led to potentially deadly miscommunication between nurses and doctors. The facility sent Ebola victim Thomas Duncan home despite showing signs of the disease -- only to admit him with worse symptoms three days later.

Hospital officials, who came forward "in the interest of transparency," initially cited workflow and information-sharing problems for the botch. ...

Mysteriously, after taking special care to get their facts straight before releasing the statement, the hospital backed off a day later. The very specific communications flaw in the medical records software -- which apparently had prevented some staff from accessing Duncan's travel history from Liberia -- suddenly disappeared.

What really happened?

Here's what I can tell you for sure: Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic medical records system -- and the Dallas hospital isn't the only client that has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability failures.

Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health care market.

(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; cronyism; dccc; ebola; emr; epic; epicsystems; faulkner; judyfaulkner; obama; obamabundlers; obamacare; obamadonors; paperwork
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To: Mom MD

Actually VISTA gets the highest ratings from users, but yes, EPIC and CERNER are the big dogs in the space, and this article is utter crap.... but the ignorant masses will bite on it, and the ignoramouses will create self feeding loops of validation of their foolish beliefs woafully uninformed of reality.

This article needs to step up 20 yards to even reach gutter trash level. The author is completely ignorant on the topic they are writing.


81 posted on 10/08/2014 7:26:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Nachum

Thanks for the ping.


82 posted on 10/08/2014 8:18:15 AM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: Kozak
Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health care market.

Is that the Chicago Hospital M. Obama was connected with??

83 posted on 10/08/2014 8:20:04 AM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: tumblindice
When Obama got into the US Senate, he earmarked a million dollars for Chewbacca's hospital, and her salary suddenly tripled, or nearly tripled. So in effect Obama was able to funnel taxpayer money into his own family's income.

Her job at the hospital was so vital and her expertise so unique that when she became First Lady, the hospital eliminated the position, if I'm not mistaken.

84 posted on 10/08/2014 8:50:14 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: GOPJ

My mistake. It was the University of Chicago Hospital, not Children’s Memorial.


85 posted on 10/08/2014 9:15:33 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: tumblindice

He said “Wookie in the window”! Lol!


86 posted on 10/08/2014 9:21:01 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Abakumov

Obamacare fails us again.


87 posted on 10/08/2014 11:04:45 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Abakumov

88 posted on 10/08/2014 12:02:32 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington, it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: Bullish
>"Never have we seen such an oligarchy of evil and corruption as we’re seeing with the current democrat party."

And the republican party is neck deep and joined at the hip right along with them!

89 posted on 10/08/2014 12:29:50 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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