IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure

Received unsolicited on June 14, 2013 from a computer professional whose identity I am redacting.  Posted with his permission: Dr. Silve...

IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure 2015-05-15T01:26:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper?

I believe in 2013 that they are. (Definition of bad health IT is here:  http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) I re...

Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper? 2015-05-13T03:25:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against Premarket Testing and Validation of Health IT

From http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-advisory-committees-facas/fdasia : The Food and Drug Administration ...

An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against Premarket Testing and Validation of Health IT 2015-05-12T22:37:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More "anecdotes" of health IT-related errors - System errors with Victoria's trouble-plagued HIT program caused more than 100 medication mix-ups at two Melbourne hospitals

There are those in the field of health IT who see every health IT-related mishap as an "anecdote" - the " anecdotalists ...

More "anecdotes" of health IT-related errors - System errors with Victoria's trouble-plagued HIT program caused more than 100 medication mix-ups at two Melbourne hospitals 2015-05-12T00:28:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

"We’ve resolved 6,036 issues and have 3,517 open issues": Extolling EPIC EHR Virtues at University of Arizona Health System

The public may believe that, in healthcare, only the Obamacare insurance exchange website has lots of bugs.  On those, see my Oct. 10. 2013...

"We’ve resolved 6,036 issues and have 3,517 open issues": Extolling EPIC EHR Virtues at University of Arizona Health System 2015-05-11T23:51:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Another 'Survey' on EHRs - Affinity Medical Center (Ohio) Nurses Warn That Serious Patient Complications "Only a Matter of Time" in Open Letter

I've written previously about substantial problems nurses at Affinity Medical Center, Ohio ( http://www.affinitymedicalcenter.com/ ) and...

Another 'Survey' on EHRs - Affinity Medical Center (Ohio) Nurses Warn That Serious Patient Complications "Only a Matter of Time" in Open Letter 2015-05-11T23:39:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

An Idiotically-Designed EHR Medication Discontinuation "Feature"

Over at The Healthcare Blog, Michael Chen, MD, a family physician and EHR designer in Portland, Oregon wrote a piece entitled " Why EHR...

An Idiotically-Designed EHR Medication Discontinuation "Feature" 2015-05-11T21:17:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

A Day In The Life Of A (Reluctant But Coerced) EHR-Using Physician - And Her Patients

A reader, a physician who wishes to be unnamed due to fear of retaliation, writes the following: Dear Dr. Silverstein, As you write, th...

A Day In The Life Of A (Reluctant But Coerced) EHR-Using Physician - And Her Patients 2015-05-11T18:56:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare: "Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs"

Two " EHR beneficence is not exactly as advertised " stories in one day.  It's hard to keep up: After my earlier post today ...

Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare: "Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs" 2015-05-10T22:26:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Canada: Province-wide electronic medical record computer system 'glitch' causing patients to be turned away from care

This story describes a very bad scenario for sick Canadians.  I offer just a few pithy comments, as not much more than that is needed: ht...

Canada: Province-wide electronic medical record computer system 'glitch' causing patients to be turned away from care 2015-05-07T01:05:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Doctors and EHRs: Reframing the "Modernists v. Luddites" Canard to The Accurate "Ardent Technophiles vs. Pragmatists" Reality

One manner by which Healthcare's core values are usurped is via distortions and slander about physicians and other clinicians. At "...

Doctors and EHRs: Reframing the "Modernists v. Luddites" Canard to The Accurate "Ardent Technophiles vs. Pragmatists" Reality 2014-08-03T20:13:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

ONC's Christmas Confessional on Health IT Safety: "HIT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan for Public Comment"

This time of year is certainly appropriate for a confessional on the health IT industry and hyperenthusiasts ' sins. In the first report...

ONC's Christmas Confessional on Health IT Safety: "HIT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan for Public Comment" 2012-12-23T07:23:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown