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Over At The Health Care Blog, Aneesh Chopra Distorts IT Failure Reality
I feel sorry for President Obama. I really do. He's been deceived by IT hyperenthusiasts who, in addition to their hyperenthusiasm, pr...
Drudge Report, Oct. 10, 2013, 9 AM EST: All that needs to be said about government, computing and healthcare
Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement
More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement: 1. Layoffs to balance the budget... http://www.news-record.com...
"Computer problems" force docs back to paper charts at Memorial Hospital - From June 11 until at least June 24?
More on the wonders and dependability of commercial health IT, as implemented in hospitals, which are generally an IT backwaters: ...
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. Silverste...
Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"
In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " ...
The HIT Scam
Worth a read - The HIT Scam By Greg Scandlen Notable in the pi ece are these observations: ... even the editors of the Washington Post ...
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Allegheny Health System Computer Crash (Again) and Paper Backups
I reported on a health IT crash in my May 2011 post " Twelve Hour Health IT Glitch at Allegheny General Hospital - But Patients Unaffec...
ONC and Misdirection Regarding Mass Healthcare IT Failure
In my keynote address to the Health Informatics Society of Australia in Sydney recently, I cautioned attendees including those in government...
Vermont: Despite $70 million investment, health IT systems a long way from prime time - "Problems are appropriate"
Preliminary note: This post is rich with hyperlinks. At minimum I recommend opening them in another window and at least scanning their con...
University of Virginia, GE settle $47M suit over EMR implementation
An Expensive Healthcare Computing Mistake: $1.5 Million
At my June 2011 post " Babies' deaths spotlight safety risks linked to computerized systems " I reported on a case (case #2) o...
Death at Birth: A Tragedy Caused by Overwork and Undertraining - and Technology
As a result of my recent post " Plaintiff's Trial Lawyers Are to Blame for EHRs That 'Tattle' on Doctors - And Harm Patient...
London Ambulance Service: Would You Like Some Death And Mayhem With Your American Healthcare IT?
It seems American companies are good at producing really noisome commercial healthcare IT and foisting it on other countries, such as outlin...
North Bristol Hits Appointment Problems: Another "Our Lousy IT Systems Screwed Up, But Patient Safety Was Never Compromised" Story
At my Dec. 2011 post " IT Malpractice? Yet Another "Glitch" Affecting Thousands of Patients. Of Course, As Always, Patient C...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
