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"We’ve resolved 6,036 issues and have 3,517 open issues": Extolling EPIC EHR Virtues at University of Arizona Health System

Posted by | 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...

Words that Work: Singing Only Positive - And Often Unsubstantiated - EHR Praise As "Advised" At The University Of Arizona Health Network

Posted by | 5:33 PM
When clinicians are told to promote a technology in no uncertain terms, that puts a chilling effect on critical thinking and discourse.  In ...

Setback for Sutter after $1B EHR crashes (in followup to post "RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals")

Posted by | 10:19 AM
At my July 12, 2013 post "RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals...

RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals

Posted by | 11:00 AM
Add the following from Sutter East Bay Hospitals to nurses' and physicians' complaints at Marin General Hospital ( http://hcrenewa...

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 " ...

I Wonder if Dr. Bob Wachter Has An IP Audit Trail For Comment Submissions To His Blog?

Posted by | 7:38 AM
In my Jan. 2010 post " More on Perversity in the Healthcare IT World: Is Meditech Employing Sockpuppets? " I described how I found...

In addition to nurses, doctors now air their alarm: Contra Costa County health doctors air complaints about county's new $45 million computer system

Posted by | 7:49 AM
At my Aug. 2012 post " Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say ", I described how...

Was EPIC successful in watering down the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule?

Posted by | 3:38 PM
At my Aug. 31, 2012 post " Health IT Vendor EPIC Caught Red-Handed: Ghostwriting And Using Customers as Stealth Lobbyists - Did ONC Ign...