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Another 'Survey' on EHRs - Affinity Medical Center (Ohio) Nurses Warn That Serious Patient Complications "Only a Matter of Time" in Open Letter
"We’ve resolved 6,036 issues and have 3,517 open issues": Extolling EPIC EHR Virtues at University of Arizona Health System
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
There are those in the field of health IT who see every health IT-related mishap as an "anecdote" - the " anecdotalists ...
An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against Premarket Testing and Validation of Health IT
From http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-advisory-committees-facas/fdasia : The Food and Drug Administration Saf...
Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper?
I believe in 2013 that they are. (Definition of bad health IT is here: http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) I recent...
IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure
Received unsolicited on June 14, 2013 from a computer professional whose identity I am redacting. Posted with his permission: Dr. Silverste...
ONC's Christmas Confessional on Health IT Safety: "HIT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan for Public Comment"
This time of year is certainly appropriate for a confessional on the health IT industry and hyperenthusiasts ' sins. In the first report...
A Significant Additional Observation on the PA Patient Safety Authority Report "The Role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety Events" -- Risk
At a Dec. 13, 2012 post " Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority: The Role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety Events ...
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority: The Role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety Events
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has released a report " The Role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety Events ....
Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" on Medical Devices in Hospitals
As if there weren't enough problems with hospitals as computing backwaters, now there's this: Computer Viruses Are "Rampant...
Realizing EHR potential, or avoiding patient endangerment?
I noted an interesting comment posted in the comment thread of Bob Wachter's post "Putting the “A” Back in SOAP Notes: Time to Tack...
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Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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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...
