NY Times/Steve Lohr asks "Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive." The answer in medicine is obvious.

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NY Times/Steve Lohr asks "Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive." The answer in medicine is obvious.

Unknown 6/07/2016 Komentar

In a June 5, 2016 article, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/steve_lohr/index.html), who reports on technology, business and economics, asked the following question:Why...

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HIT Mayhem, Canadian Style: Nanaimo doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut down, non-medical PR hacks say it's perfectly safe

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HIT Mayhem, Canadian Style: Nanaimo doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut down, non-medical PR hacks say it's perfectly safe

Unknown 5/31/2016 Komentar

Some candid honesty:To hell with doctors and nurses and their concerns about horrible health IT.   That seems the international standard in 2016 regarding their concerns.  There's just too much money to be...

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Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records

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Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records

Unknown 5/28/2015 Komentar

EHR utopian dreams have taken some pronounced hits in recent years.In recent months, the hyper-enthusiasts and their government allies have had to eat significant dirt, and scale back their grandiose but risible - to...

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Pollyanna Rhetoric, Proximate Futures and Realist's Primer on Health IT Realities in 2015

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Pollyanna Rhetoric, Proximate Futures and Realist's Primer on Health IT Realities in 2015

Unknown 4/27/2015 Komentar

Pollyanna statements about healthcare IT such as the following are still appearing, and are growing increasingly tiresome.  They are, at best, demonstrations of people with a fiduciary duty to have known better making...

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Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue

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Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue

Unknown 3/17/2015 Komentar

Here are three candid, quite revealing articles about the distaste for today's health IT that appeared recently.  I will address each,The first seems like pure deja vu (see my June 4, 2009 post "If The Military Can't...

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Former ONC Director David Blumenthal (Inadvertently?) Honest About EHRs in USA Today Story

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Former ONC Director David Blumenthal (Inadvertently?) Honest About EHRs in USA Today Story

Unknown 2/02/2015 Komentar

USA Today has published a story on health IT difficulties.  Read it in its entirety; it is fairly balanced, though mild, e.g., it omits mention of the ECRI Deep Dive study on patient harms (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/02/peering-underneath-icebergs-water-level.html)...

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