This time of year is certainly appropriate for a confessional on the health IT industry and hyperenthusiasts ' sins. In the first report...
HITECH and Experimental Airplanes
This from a commenter, who has been deeply involved in major governmental health IT initiatives in another land, who wishes to remain anonym...
A Response to the NY Times Article "Ups and Downs of EMRs" So Full Of The Usual Refrains, I Am Using It To Throw A Spotlight On Those Endlessly-Repeated Memes
My Google search alert turned up a response to the Oct. 8, 2012 NY Times article The Ups and Downs of Electronic Medical Records by Milt Fr...
A Tacit Admission That National Health IT is a Gargantuan Experiment
In my post yesterday " The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2 " I wrote: There's no truly robust evidence of ...
Health IT difficulties and controversial excuses from health IT hyperenthusiasts and extremists
As I observed at my Aug. 15, 2012 post " Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say ...
Know-Nothing, or Industry Shill? You Be The Judge.
I have not been writing much the past few weeks due to other concerns, and will probably not write much this summer. However, I have been co...
Experiments on Top of Experiments: Threats to Patients Safety of Mobile e-Health Devices - No Surprise to Me
As noted by columnist Neil Versel at MobiHealthNews.com in a Mar. 14, 2012 post " Beware virtual keyboards in mobile clinical apps ...
A Critical Review of a Critical Review of e-Prescribing ... Or Is It CPOE?
In PLoS medicine, the following article was recently published by researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia: Westbrook J...
London Ambulance Service: Would You Like Some Death And Mayhem With Your American Healthcare IT?
It seems American companies are good at producing really noisome commercial healthcare IT and foisting it on other countries, such as outlin...
Dr. Scott Monteith: On a New Wonder "Drug" on the Market
I've posted several guest posts by Dr. Scott Monteith, a psychiatrist/informaticist, at Healthcare Renewal. These include the Mar. 2011 ...
Why 99 Percent of the Irrationally Exuberant About Health IT Need To Be Removed From Healthcare
At Roy Poses' cross post " Why 99 percent of health care should be angry " over at the KevinMD blog, I introduced a comment in...