Showing posts with label healthcare IT risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare IT risk. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 June 2016

Reckless indifference to nurse's concerns about bad health IT results in showing her the door?

Reckless indifference to nurse's concerns about bad health IT results in showing her the door?

At numerous past posts I referred to hospital executives' reckless indifference to the concern of seasoned clinicians about bad health IT, such as at  http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/07/rns-say-sutters-new-electronic-system.html...
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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

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

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

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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Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching!  EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Once again, a definition of bad health IT:Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive...
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Thursday, 17 March 2016

Criminal matter for the Attorney General of NY?  Hail the gods of medical computing, and the need for human sacrifice.  NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders

Criminal matter for the Attorney General of NY? Hail the gods of medical computing, and the need for human sacrifice. NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders

I believe the suffering and death of my mother in 2010-2011 due to EHR flaws - including but not limited to lack of essential confirmation dialogs on medication deletion at triage, lack of notification messages informing...
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