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Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper?

Posted by | 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...

On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2

Posted by | 2:52 PM
Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...

On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 1

Posted by | 2:28 PM
This is the first of a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding EHR's.  Fr...

Wisdom from the Medical Journal of Oz: "Good HIT and bad HIT"

Posted by | 9:09 AM
The recognition and partitioning of "good health IT" from "bad health IT" is now a mainstream meme.  I have few commen...

Bad Health IT -Yet Another Health IT 'Glitch' - Potential Image Loss in GE Centricity PACS; ECRI Again Reports Health IT a Top Ten Hospital Risk

Posted by | 3:43 PM
From my definition of bad health IT (BHIT) at this link : Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, ...

New York Times: "The Ups and Downs of Electronic Medical Records"

Posted by | 3:35 AM
The "downs" of health IT have rarely been presented in a prominent public forum. After a recent Center for Public Integrity series...

Ontario must rethink health care ... including costs of health IT

Posted by | 6:16 AM
Hat tip to a commenter for the link below to a Toronto newspaper opinion piece on Canadian healthcare rationing and the costs of health IT. ...

Good Health IT (GHIT) v. Bad Health IT (BHIT): Paper is Better Than The Latter

Posted by | 4:33 PM
An unspoken running assumption of the health IT enthusiast crowd seems to be that any health IT is better than no health IT, because using p...

Bad health IT and its effects on willingness of patients to share sensitive information

Posted by | 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...

EHR sabotage for ransom: Try this with paper!

Posted by | 3:20 PM
I have frequently written that health IT, touted as a technology that will deterministically "transform medicine", allows (aside f...