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 | 2:16 PM

A new and very interesting EMR "glitch" from a report I received recently: ... I found a glitch with my [name redacted] EMR. It pr...

Labels: coumadin, drug interaction, EHR alerts, glitch, healthcare IT difficulties, primidone, warfarin

Posted by Admin | 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...

Labels: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, California Nurses Association, EPIC, glitch, healthcare IT crash, healthcare IT risks, IT malpractice, Patient care has not been compromised, Sutter Health

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 | 3:40 PM

At " Another Health IT "Glitch" - Can Digital Disappearing Ink Kill Patients? " just yesterday, on August 5, 2013, I wro...

Labels: CPOE, glitch, healthcare IT risk, Siemens, Siemens Healthcare, Soarian, Soarian Clinicals Medication Orders

Posted by Admin | 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...

Labels: glitch, healthcare IT risk, medication reconciliation, Siemens, Siemens Healthcare, Soarian

Posted by Admin | 11:00 AM

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

Labels: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, California Nurses Association, EPIC, glitch, healthcare IT risks, Patient care has not been compromised, Sutter East Bay Hospitals, Sutter Health

Posted by Admin | 9:08 AM

- Posted on the Healthcare Renewal Blog May 17, 2013 - Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defec...

Labels: glitch, gross negligence, healthcare IT risks, Lee Domanico, Marin General Hospital, Marin Healthcare District, Patient care has not been compromised

Posted by Admin | 4:24 PM

In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " ...

Labels: Edgecomb Selectman Stuart Smith, EPIC, glitch, healthcare IT cost, Healthcare IT failure, hiccup, Maine Medical Center

Posted by Admin | 7:14 AM

Just another computer " glitch ", that innocuous euphemism for a catastrophe-promoting IT defect, this time causing patients to re...

Labels: glitch, healthcare IT risks, Regina General Hospital

Posted by Admin | 6:37 AM

This post is in followup to my March 20, 2013 post " Boulder Community Hospital computer system crash: Either you're in control of...

Labels: Boulder Community Hospital, glitch, healthcare IT crash, healthcare IT risks, Joint Commission, Meditech, Rich Sheehan

Posted by Admin | 7:01 AM

Yet another health IT crash, "prolonged" this time, from some unspecified " glitch ": Boulder Community Hospital compute...

Labels: Boulder Community Hospital, glitch, healthcare IT crash, healthcare IT risks, Meditech, Rich Sheehan

Posted by Admin | 5:36 AM

In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was this story of yet another EHR " glitch ": March 9, 2013 12:17 am   Human error the cause of UPM...

Labels: glitch, healthcare IT crash, healthcare IT difficulties, Patient care has not been compromised, UPMC