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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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1 posted on 10/07/2014 9:02:07 PM PDT by Abakumov
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To: Abakumov

The Obama stench and the trail of Obamacare, just get bigger. It is not over yet, by a long shot. This STUPID nation had better wake up and get on the Obamacare time bomb.


2 posted on 10/07/2014 9:05:39 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: null and void; Smokin' Joe

Ping.


3 posted on 10/07/2014 9:06:36 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Abakumov

Man if this is true, there will be HELL to pay.


4 posted on 10/07/2014 9:07:50 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


5 posted on 10/07/2014 9:08:36 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Abakumov
Bump.

In July, The Boston Globe reported that there is still “no safety oversight of the vendors who sell” EMR and EHR systems. One malpractice insurance group revealed that it found 147 cases “in which electronic health records contributed to ‘adverse events’ that affected patients” — 46 resulted in death.

That's significant.

6 posted on 10/07/2014 9:09:40 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Abakumov

Didn’t Chewbacca once hold a highly paid sinecure with a hospital?

And didn’t she purport to serve as some kind of figurehead/’Wookie in the window’ liaison with (clearing throat) financially high-risk, lower income patients?

Maybe she could handle deadbeats like Mr. Imnotdeadyet and starve them to death with her healthy diet before they can walk around Chicago/Dallas for days spraying the Ebola virus.


7 posted on 10/07/2014 9:10:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


8 posted on 10/07/2014 9:11:01 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Abakumov

How much did taxpayers spend on that system?


9 posted on 10/07/2014 9:11:02 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Abakumov
A further excerpt from the article:

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. As I reported last year, Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012 — 82 percent of it to Democrats. The company’s Top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or leftwing outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corporation (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund super-PAC ($150,000).

10 posted on 10/07/2014 9:11:17 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Mears

bfl


11 posted on 10/07/2014 9:11:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Nachum

Thanks for the ping-—that was fast !!!!!!

I’ll be anxious to see if the media hops on this information.

.


12 posted on 10/07/2014 9:12:51 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Abakumov

bttt


13 posted on 10/07/2014 9:13:45 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: dayglored

There’s an article on politifact tampa bay times bill & melinda gates, george soros funded bio-terrorism labs.


14 posted on 10/07/2014 9:14:29 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Sligo Surf Club)
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To: Abakumov

You are becoming popular, soviet. Good.


15 posted on 10/07/2014 9:14:42 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: dayglored

>> “Man if this is true, there will be HELL to pay.” <<

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No, there won’t.

The MSM is incapable of seeing Dumacrap faults.


16 posted on 10/07/2014 9:14:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dayglored

“Man if this is true, there will be HELL to pay.”

There should be. But there won’t be.

When your opposition is the GOPe there is never anything to worry about.


17 posted on 10/07/2014 9:17:03 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Abakumov

Obamacare is now Obolacare.


18 posted on 10/07/2014 9:17:24 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: GeronL

“How much did taxpayers spend on that system?”

GOOD QUESTION! also, it seems like the software is outdated and bug-ridden..How did this person even become a billionaire??? This story needs to go viral! (OK maybe not the best terminology there;)


19 posted on 10/07/2014 9:19:48 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Abakumov

I never was so sure there was a good reason for electronic medical records...has always made me uneasy.


20 posted on 10/07/2014 9:20:04 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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