The field of health IT lives a charmed life. Even self-stated human rights advocates in healthcare won't seem to broach the topic of EHR...
Is ONC's definition of "Significant EHR Risk" when body bags start to accumulate on the steps of the Capitol?
In a June 25, 2013 Bloomberg News article " Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems " by technology repor...
Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Innovation Initiative: Health IT Industry Officials Lying to Regulators With Impunity?
On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Innovation Initiative held a discussion on its new report: An Ov...
HIMSS Senior Vice President on Medical Ethics: Ignore Health IT Downsides for the Greater Good
The Health Information Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) is the large health IT vendor trade group in the U.S. At a Sept. 21, 2012 HIMSS...
Ellmers Calls on Sebelius to Address Health IT Safety Concerns: A Responsible Voice in Government on Health IT and HIT Safety
The following press release is very welcome, and speaks for itself. There is a responsible voice in the government wilderness. I...
Health IT Pundits and Perhaps the Most Logically Fallacious (And Even Cold-Hearted) Statement I've Seen About Health IT to Date
The KevinMD blog has reposted George Lundberg's MedPage Today post " Health IT: Garbage In, Garbage Out ", retitled as "...
Two Opposing Views of EHR: InformaticMD vs. NextGen's Holder of "American Medical Informatics Certification for Health Information Technology"
The AMA's publication American Medical News recently quoted me following comments from IOM EHR Safety committee member Richard Cook in ...
How Academic and Government "Anecdotes Are Not Data" Ideologues Kill People
I'm already receiving comments that, regarding Prof. Jon Patrick's detailed exposé of the dangers of ill-suited-for-purpose ED EHR...
IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health IT, Meeting Two: Institute of Medicine, or of Mediocrity?
In my Jan. 2011 post " Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology, and Thoughts on Social As...