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Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement

Posted by | 5:48 AM
More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement: 1.  Layoffs to balance the budget... http://www.news-record.com...

Want to help a hospital go bankrupt? Get a bad EHR - Westchester hospitals' sale price over $54 million, Hospitals' debt about $200M

Posted by | 5:32 AM
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on June 3, 2013 -  Sound Shore Medical Center (New Rochelle, NY) is filing for bankruptcy protectio...

Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"

Posted by | 1:53 PM
A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' su...

Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"

Posted by | 4:24 PM
In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " ...

The HIT Scam

Posted by | 7:53 AM
Worth a read - The HIT Scam By Greg Scandlen Notable in the pi ece are these observations:   ... even the editors of the Washington Post ...

House Ways And Means, and Energy and Commerce, Note EHRs Not What They Were Made Out To Be, Calls For HITECH Moratorium

Posted by | 7:07 AM
I have called numerous times for a moratorium on ambitious national health IT programs.  See 2008 and 2009 posts here and here for example...

WSJ, Koppel and Soumerai: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records - Cost Savings Illusory

Posted by | 3:24 AM
Two EHR experts from Ivy-league institutions (which are typically hyperenthusiast-oriented) doubt cost savings from EHR technology. Wall Str...

Vermont: Despite $70 million investment, health IT systems a long way from prime time - "Problems are appropriate"

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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 Arizona Medical Center, $10 million in the red in operations, to spend $100M on new EHR system

Posted by | 8:17 PM
In my Oct. 2006 post " $70 million for an Electronic Medical Records system? " I wrote: ... healthcare doesn’t have the capital fo...

EHRs and test ordering: Health Affairs authors reply to ONC

Posted by | 7:25 AM
At my March 9, 2012 post " Increased Lab Ordering with EHR's? " I refuted ONC's response to a Harvard-based research study...

Another Health IT Mythbuster: Doctors order more X-rays, not fewer, with computer access

Posted by | 9:37 AM
This piece is in the Washington Post about a just-released piece in Health Affairs ( at this link ) by Danny McCormick, David H. Bor, Stepha...