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

Posted by | 7:23 AM
This time of year is certainly appropriate for a confessional on the health IT industry and hyperenthusiasts ' sins. In the first report...

HITECH and Experimental Airplanes

Posted by | 11:57 AM
This from a commenter, who has been deeply involved in major governmental health IT initiatives in another land, who wishes to remain anonym...

A Response to the NY Times Article "Ups and Downs of EMRs" So Full Of The Usual Refrains, I Am Using It To Throw A Spotlight On Those Endlessly-Repeated Memes

Posted by | 9:37 AM
My Google search alert turned up a response to the Oct. 8, 2012 NY Times article The Ups and Downs of Electronic Medical Records  by Milt Fr...

A Tacit Admission That National Health IT is a Gargantuan Experiment

Posted by | 7:21 AM
In my post yesterday " The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2 " I wrote: There's no truly robust evidence of ...

Health IT difficulties and controversial excuses from health IT hyperenthusiasts and extremists

Posted by | 8:30 AM
As I observed at my Aug. 15, 2012 post " Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say ...

Know-Nothing, or Industry Shill? You Be The Judge.

Posted by | 4:52 AM
I have not been writing much the past few weeks due to other concerns, and will probably not write much this summer. However, I have been co...

Experiments on Top of Experiments: Threats to Patients Safety of Mobile e-Health Devices - No Surprise to Me

Posted by | 6:21 AM
As noted by columnist Neil Versel at MobiHealthNews.com in a Mar. 14, 2012 post " Beware virtual keyboards in mobile clinical apps ...

A Critical Review of a Critical Review of e-Prescribing ... Or Is It CPOE?

Posted by | 7:06 AM
In PLoS medicine, the following article was recently published by researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia: Westbrook J...

London Ambulance Service: Would You Like Some Death And Mayhem With Your American Healthcare IT?

Posted by | 7:56 AM
It seems American companies are good at producing really noisome commercial healthcare IT and foisting it on other countries, such as outlin...

Dr. Scott Monteith: On a New Wonder "Drug" on the Market

Posted by | 12:44 PM
I've posted several guest posts by Dr. Scott Monteith, a psychiatrist/informaticist, at Healthcare Renewal. These include the Mar. 2011 ...

Why 99 Percent of the Irrationally Exuberant About Health IT Need To Be Removed From Healthcare

Posted by | 4:52 AM
At Roy Poses' cross post " Why 99 percent of health care should be angry " over at the KevinMD blog, I introduced a comment in...