Fortune - USA (2019-04)

59 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 1,884 tests for which they had never gotten outcomes. The District of Vermont launched an official fe ...

this software—and continues to pay for it. Or we should say: You do. Which brings us to the strange, sad, and aggravating story ...

61 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 few would argue they have.” The former President has likewise singled out the effort as one of his mo ...

62 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 order for a critical lab test—a check of the spinal fluid for viruses, including herpes simplex—into ...

63 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 incidents, counted 775 “laboratory-test prob- lems” related to health IT between January 2016 and Dec ...

64 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 studying things like the intuitiveness of information displays. When he got to MedStar in 2012, he wa ...

65 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 EHRs have in some ways made practicing medicine harder, says Hal Baker, a physician and the chief inf ...

66 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 ordering ibuprofen, a seemingly simple task that now requires many rounds of mouse clicking. Every ti ...

67 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 erable, nationwide records system—was “ut- terly infeasible to get to in a short time frame.” That di ...

68 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 weren’t delivering stable software! The executive team was inac- cessible! The service experience was ...

69 FEEDBACK [email protected] FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 $11,925—and cash in on the government’s adoption incentives. The top-she ...

70 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 the country, at big urban practices and tiny rural clinics, and from those frontline physicians she c ...

Dr. Jim Allison’s breakthrough in immunotherapy earned him the 2018 Nobel Prize and is transforming cancer care and saving the l ...

Blumenthal acknowledges that he failed to grasp these perverse business dynamics and foresee what a challenge getting the system ...

to court. Jennifer De Angelis, a Tulsa attorney, has frequently sparred with hospitals over releasing her clients’ records. She ...

74 FORTUNE.COM WRITING RECIPES Pharnext CEO Daniel Cohen with the molecular diagrams for baclofen and naltrexone—two of the drug ...

75 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 BY TIERNAN RAY Data-savvy scientists like DANIEL COHEN of Pharnext are using ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ...

76 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 population, not just one.” The phenomenon Cohen is describ- ing is “pleiotropy,” the capacity of a si ...

77 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 care companies, sees the efforts as part of a growing trend to repurpose. “That all leads to the poss ...

78 FORTUNE.COM // APR.1.19 disease. And in a recent series of trials, first published in 2017 in the medical journal The Lancet, ...