Posted by Admin | 12:37 PM

The public may believe that, in healthcare, only the Obamacare insurance exchange website has lots of bugs.  On those, see my Oct. 10. 2013...

Labels: cerner, ECRI Deep Dive Study, ecri institute, EPIC, glitch, healthcare IT dangers, healthcare IT defects, University of Arizona Health Network, University of Arizona Medical Center

Posted by Admin | 6:54 AM

From http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-advisory-committees-facas/fdasia : The Food and Drug Administration Saf...

Labels: David Bates, ECRI Deep Dive Study, FDA, FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee Workgroup, healthcare IT dangers, healthcare IT deaths, healthcare IT defects, healthcare IT risk, ONC, premarket approval

Posted by Admin | 1:26 PM

Yet another healthcare IT "glitch" - that banal little word used for potentially life-threatening software defects.  (See the que...

Labels: ED EHR, FDA recall, glitch, healthcare IT defects, healthcare IT risk, PICIS Pulsecheck

Posted by Admin | 5:38 AM

I believe in 2013 that they are. (Definition of bad health IT is here:  http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) I recent...

Labels: bad health IT, FDA recall, GE Centricity, glitch, healthcare IT dangers, healthcare IT defects, MAUDE, PACS, Siemens Healthcare, workarounds

Posted by Admin | 3:36 PM

Interesting article about a Class-Action lawsuit against a health IT seller, Allscripts, see Medscape link below (the story is copyrighted ...

Labels: Allscripts, class action lawsuit, healthcare IT defects, Medscape

Posted by Admin | 10:36 AM

I call your attention to this video from the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy where HC Renewal occasional contribut...

Labels: bad health IT, Dr. Scott Monteith, healthcare IT defects, medical record confidentiality, medical record privacy, ONC

Posted by Admin | 10:00 AM

Reposted from KevinMD blog on another aspect of the health IT mission hostile user experience . Emphases and comments in [red italics] are...

Labels: healthcare IT defects, healthcare IT risks, mission hostile user experience

Posted by Admin | 10:15 AM

Below is an actual workstation, in an ICU of a major regional hospital, to permit interaction with an already mission-hostile EHR system: H...

Labels: healthcare IT defects

Posted by Admin | 1:14 PM

I have often had to respond to those who claim that EHR's don't cause medical errors, users do. That subset of the health IT irrati...

Labels: healthcare IT defects, healthcare IT risks, hold harmless clause, mission hostile user experience, NIST, use error