A Nurse's Union, National Nurses United, Takes On Bad Health IT

National Nurses United (http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/), a nurse's union, takes on bad health IT with both satire and seriousness:

Hey dude!  I'm your highly-cost effective computer technician Steve.  Tell me what's hurtin' and I'll program it into Frank, our computerized doctor and nurse replacement. (YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YthF86QDOXY.)

See their page at http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/site/entry/insist-on-an-rn

I note that nature abhors a vacuum, and since medicine's watchdogs (e.g., FDA), physicians and their organizations, the Medical Informatics community and others who know better have left a deep vacuum over health IT problems, I'm glad unionized nurses have stepped up to the plate.

-- SS