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More "anecdotes" of health IT-related errors - System errors with Victoria's trouble-plagued HIT program caused more than 100 medication mix-ups at two Melbourne hospitals
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3:21 PM
There are those in the field of health IT who see every health IT-related mishap as an "anecdote" - the " anecdotalists ...
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Auditor-General John Doyle
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healthcare IT dangers
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healthcare IT risk
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medication error
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Victoria Australia
Proof positive of government incompetence and recklessness in information technology - H.R.3303 - Bipartisan call for exemption of health IT from the FD&C Act
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7:46 AM
Here's proof positive of government incompetence and recklessness in information technology. A new proposed bill that would exempt healt...
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H.R.3303
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healthcare IT regulation
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healthcare IT risk
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Rep. Diana DeGette
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REP. G.K. Butterfield
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Rep. Gene Green
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Rep. Greg Walden
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn
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Rep. Phil Gingrey
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SOFTWARE Act of 2013
Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems: ED EHR Systems Pose Serious Concerns, Report Says
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7:03 AM
A report " Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems " appeared in the Oct. 2013 issue of "...
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Abington Memorial Hospital
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Chris Jay Hoofnagle
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EDIS
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emergency department
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healthcare IT regulation
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healthcare IT risk
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healthcare IT safety
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postmarketing surveillance
An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against Premarket Testing and Validation of Health IT
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6:54 AM
From http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-advisory-committees-facas/fdasia : The Food and Drug Administration Saf...
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David Bates
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ECRI Deep Dive Study
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FDA
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FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee Workgroup
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healthcare IT dangers
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healthcare IT deaths
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healthcare IT defects
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healthcare IT risk
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ONC
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premarket approval
Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default Values - With Only Four Reports of "Temporary" (By the Grace of God) Patient Harm
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12:52 PM
From Health Data Management and the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority : Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default Value Joseph Goedert...
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default values
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Erin Sparnon
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Health Data Management
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healthcare IT risk
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HIT Policy Committee
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Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
Calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry and Dr. Curly: Advocate Medical Breach of Four Million Patient Records, and No Encryption
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8:16 AM
At my Oct. 2011 post " Still More Electronic Medical Data Chaos, Pandemonium, Bedlam, Tumult and Maelstrom: But Don't Worry, Your ...
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Advocate Health Care
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Bitlocker
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computer security
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FileVault
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healthcare IT risk
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medical record confidentiality
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medical record privacy
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Mismanagement
A Good Way to Cybernetically Harm or Kill Emergency Department Patients ... Via An ED EHR "Glitch" That Mangles Prescriptions
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1:26 PM
Yet another healthcare IT "glitch" - that banal little word used for potentially life-threatening software defects. (See the que...
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ED EHR
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FDA recall
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glitch
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healthcare IT defects
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healthcare IT risk
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PICIS Pulsecheck
A War on Patients: Panel Says EHRs Should Not Be Vetted Before Marketing and Deployment
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4:42 AM
"First, do harm - it's a learning experience, and injured or dead patients are just a bump in the road, anyway" - the apparent...
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David Bates
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FDA
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FDA Safety Innovation Act work group
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health IT extremism
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healthcare IT regulation
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healthcare IT risk
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Joseph Conn
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Modern Healthcare
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postmarketing sureveillance
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premarket approval
Can Digital Disappearing Ink (An EHR "Glitch") Kill Patients? Part 2
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3:40 PM
At " Another Health IT "Glitch" - Can Digital Disappearing Ink Kill Patients? " just yesterday, on August 5, 2013, I wro...
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CPOE
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glitch
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healthcare IT risk
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Siemens
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Siemens Healthcare
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Soarian
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Soarian Clinicals Medication Orders
Another Health IT "Glitch" - Can Digital Disappearing Ink Kill Patients?
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9:09 AM
Yes, it can. There's been yet another "glitch" in the world of health IT (see http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/glitc...
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glitch
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healthcare IT risk
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medication reconciliation
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Siemens
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Siemens Healthcare
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Soarian
Is ONC's definition of "Significant EHR Risk" when body bags start to accumulate on the steps of the Capitol?
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9:03 AM
In a June 25, 2013 Bloomberg News article " Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems " by technology repor...
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Abington Memorial Hospital
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Bloomberg News
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ecri institute
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FDA
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healthcare IT risk
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IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology
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Jodi Daniel
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Jordan Robertson
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ONC
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prior restraint
SILVERSTEIN v. ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: MOTION TO PROHIBIT COMMENTARY ABOUT THIS LITIGATION TO ANY PUBLIC CONTEXT: Do computers have more rights than patients?
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11:02 AM
Herein is an issue of potential Internet censorship and/or attempted prior restraint of the rights of a citizen to express him/herself fre...
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Abington Memorial Hospital
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censorship
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healthcare IT risk
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Internet censorship
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Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman Goggin
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prior restraint
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Stroud v. Abington Memorial Hospital
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