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by The Library of Virginia CHICAGO – After what turned out to be a sea-changing Q1 earnings meeting April 26, which saw the ejection of its board chairman and three other board members reportedly quitting in protest, Allscripts on Monday moved quickly to begin to right the ship, with the announcement of a new [...]

by The Library of Congress June 12, 1920 Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons This photo was commissioned by a Miss A. Power of 43 Roanmore Crescent or 43 Roanmore Park in Waterford. Thanks to desmondg47, we now know this photo was taken outside the entrance to the Pugin designed Presentation Convent [...]

by State Library and Archives of Florida Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887) Image by Smithsonian Institution Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the Society’s Executive Director and had been elected [...]

by Cornell University Library Steel and concrete frame for Mount Sinai Hospital and power plant Image by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Mount Sinai Hospital was built during the 1950′s to address the discrimination Jewish doctors experienced admitting Jewish patients to local hospitals. Date: 1950 Source: 28 x 21 Format: black and white [...]

by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Fannie S. Cohen, graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Pharmacy Image by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Fannie Cohen was one of the first women to graduate from the University’s Pharmacy School. She was born in 1901 to Romanian immigrant parents, and graduated [...]

by National Library of Australia Commons The Plight of Pepito Image by State Library and Archives of Florida Local call number: V-68 DA004; S. 828 Title: [FYI-The Plight of Pepito: Cuba's Lost Generation] Date of film: 1960s Physical descrip: B&W; sound; Original film length: 27:50. General note: This film is a WTVJ (Miami) TV program [...]

by Cornell University Library Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870?-1954) Image by Smithsonian Institution Subject: Hathaway, Winifred        National Society for the Prevention of Blindness        Association for Research in Ophthalmology        Radcliffe College Type: Black-and-White Prints Date: 1937 Topic: Blindness–Prevention      Women scientists Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-3553] Summary: Winifred Phillips Hathaway (1870?-1954), Associate Director, National Society for the [...]

by The Library of Congress It’s easy to make predictions about health IT for the year to come, but what if someone asked what your IT wishes were for 2012? What would you like to see happen most in the health IT space?  We asked Wendy Whittington, MD, a practicing pediatrician and chief medical [...]

by The Library of Congress Although the debate over the delay of ICD-10 has been heated, if there’s one thing both sides can agree on, it’s the sometimes-hilarous specificity of some of the new ICD-10 codes. That’s why we asked our readers, tweeters and LinkedIn users to weigh in on some of the most [...]

by Cornell University Library Healthcare will be a hot topic during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama nearly two years ago is attacked or defended by the respective candidates and their surrogates. However, no matter who wins the White House [...]