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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

Posted by | 2:23 AM
I've written previously about substantial problems nurses at medical centers including Affinity Medical Center, Ohio ( http://www.affini...

Should "Diagnosing While Texting" Be Illegal?

Posted by | 11:43 AM
I saw an interesting comment at Medscape in the comment thread of the article " Do Your EHR Manners Turn Patients Off? " (MedScape...

UnitedHealth's Latest Blunders Include Lax Fraud Detection, Recalled EHRs - So Why is its CEO Worth $13.9 Million, or is it $34.7 Million?

Posted by | 12:38 PM
We managed to go four months since our last post about UnitedHealth, but sure enough, the company that keeps on giving... examples of poor m...

A New And Quite Perverse Hospital Ploy to Defend Medical Malpractice - Blame the Dead Patient? Two Examples

Posted by | 7:07 PM
I did not think hospitals would ever get to the level of perversity, in defense of EHRs and EHR-related malpractice, seen herein. Just a few...

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...

Patients as lab rats for beta software: have sancrosanct patient's rights been trivialized, while poor software of non-trivial risk been sanctified?

Posted by | 7:37 AM
I have noted a class action lawsuit vs. Allscripts and Eclipsys, EHR producers, regarding a merger: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN D...

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...

Affinity RNs Call for Halt to Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled to Go Live Friday

Posted by | 7:38 AM
At my May 30, 2013 post " Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients ....

"Computer problems" force docs back to paper charts at Memorial Hospital - From June 11 until at least June 24?

Posted by | 7:23 AM
More on the wonders and dependability of commercial health IT, as implemented in hospitals, which are generally an IT backwaters: ...

Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients .. CEO Cites Defective HHS Paper and Red Herrings As Excuse Why He Knowingly Allows This To Continue

Posted by | 4:37 AM
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on May 30, 2013 - The following appeared in the Marin County Independent Journal about an EHR system...