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Voices: Ed Buckley, CEO, Select Data

Home Health Care

My mother was a home health nurse who became a nurse practitioner and, eventually, a professor of nursing. The advent of the EMR was great for the home health industry, providing a data-capture tool, which increased accountability and patient care along with the corresponding outcomes.

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Whistleblowers: Time to Change Our View?

Healthcare Leadership

I contacted this help line we had and said, ‘I don’t know what to do, this quality control keeps failing, I’m resetting the whole system, but I don’t feel comfortable sending out this patient’s sample.’”. T4 Retaliation in healthcare is/has been prevalent – nurses don’t speak up against surgeons, as an example. References.