Law firms as enablers of HIT experiments? Familiar law firm now regular reader of Healthare Renewal

It continues to amaze me that unregulated, unvetted healthcare information technology of unproven benefit and proven harm continues to spread like wildfire. This occurs even when people are killed, such as the infant deaths I outlined <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/babys-death-spotlights-safety-risks.html">at this post</a> being defended by obstructionist law firms.<br /><br />This phenomenon has enablers. Among those, which include HIT vendors, their marketing arm HIMSS, large consultant companies, HIT pundits, the government, etc., law firms seem to have become enablers of hospitals' experiments with unproven, unqualified, unregulated healthcare information technology - in part by defending the medical mistakes that result.<br /><br />Lawyers defending blatant IT-related errors impede correction of the defects and impaired "<a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/?loc=cases&sloc=ecosystem">HIT ecosystem</a>" that causes the problems. After all, they can simply tell a hospital a case is not defensible (and, for example, advise them to settle). Accepting cases is entirely voluntary.<br /><br />For example, take the law firm of MARSHALL,DENNEHEY,WARNER,COLEMAN defending the hospital that caused my mother's IT-related year-long suffering starting May 2010, and then death exactly one month ago on June 6, 2011. They have become a regular reader of Healthcare Renewal, and I can believe it's not to help the hospital improve its HIT.<br /><br />It's not as if lawyers are not writing on these issues, such as Case Western School of Law's <span style="font-size: small;">Sharona Hoffman in "</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><a href="http://works.bepress.com/sharona_hoffman/7/" target="_blank">E-Health Hazards: Provider Liability and Electronic Health Record Systems</a>". That work is <span style="font-size: small;">a comprehensive analysis of the liability risks associated with use of clinical IT.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRFz75Cia3uR-_cGJZZq9m__nHNAo4hVOEyOr54_1QaPF9gbFpGYfe4kLCvicqhOKb4bhQoECn8f1A6x1wgIyPJTVDprUocf1_2xH79kbxSGMsc-0RdVkShYV7EY0UZG8CyljWVLUdpqT/s1600/coffin.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626254650137511602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCRFz75Cia3uR-_cGJZZq9m__nHNAo4hVOEyOr54_1QaPF9gbFpGYfe4kLCvicqhOKb4bhQoECn8f1A6x1wgIyPJTVDprUocf1_2xH79kbxSGMsc-0RdVkShYV7EY0UZG8CyljWVLUdpqT/s320/coffin.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 108px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 281px;" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">The real-world result of health IT interfering in simple care processes. Law firms that defend HIT-caused medical errors are enablers in use of these experimental technologies.</span></div><br />Perhaps they should have advised their clients of the risks of health IT <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> my mother was maimed? Or did they not know of these risks, <span style="font-weight: bold;">something any law firm advising healthcare clients in 2010-2011 </span><a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/updated-reading-list-on-health-it.html">knew, should have known, or should have made it their business to know</a>?<br /><br />Some tracking examples among a larger set:<br /><br /><blockquote>Today:<br /><br />Domain Name (Unknown)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IP Address 12.104.41.# (MARSHALL,DENNEHEY,WARNER,COLEMAN)</span><br />ISP AT&T WorldNet Services<br />Location<br />Continent : North America<br />Country : United States (Facts)<br />Language English (U.S.)<br />en-us<br />Operating System Macintosh WinNT<br />Browser Safari 1.3<br />Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.41 Safari/535.1<br />Javascript version 1.5<br />Monitor<br />Resolution : 1280 x 1024<br />Color Depth : 32 bits<br />Time of Visit Jul 6 2011 10:08:54 am<br />Last Page View Jul 6 2011 10:30:45 am<br />Visit Length 21 minutes 51 seconds<br />Page Views 5<br />Referring URL <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=there%27s%20also%20been%20a%20baby%20death%20locally%20to%20me%20that%20is%20allegedly%20due%20to%20HIT%20PACS%20interference%20in%20otherwise%20simple%20care">http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=there%27s%20also%20been%20a%20baby%20death%20locally%20to%20me%20that%20is%20allegedly%20due%20to%20HIT%20PACS%20interference%20in%20otherwise%20simple%20care</a><br />Search Engine google.com<br />Search Words there's also been a baby death locally to me that is allegedly due to hit pacs interference in otherwise simple care<br />Visit Entry Page http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/babys-death-spotlights-safety-risks.html<br />Visit Exit Page <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/babys-death-spotlights-safety-risks.html">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/babys-death-spotlights-safety-risks.html</a><br />Out Click<br />Time Zone UTC-5:00<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visitor's Time Jul 6 2011 10:08:54 am</span><br />Visit Number 902,836</blockquote><br /><blockquote>Yesterday:<br /><br />Domain Name (Unknown)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IP Address 12.104.41.# (MARSHALL,DENNEHEY,WARNER,COLEMAN)</span><br />ISP AT&T WorldNet Services<br />Location<br />Continent : North America<br />Country : United States (Facts)<br />Language English (U.S.)<br />en-us<br />Operating System Macintosh WinNT<br />Browser Safari 1.3<br />Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.41 Safari/535.1<br />Javascript version 1.5<br />Monitor Resolution : 1280 x 1024<br />Color Depth : 32 bits<br />Time of Visit Jul 5 2011 9:07:13 am<br />Last Page View Jul 5 2011 9:08:46 am<br />Visit Length 1 minute 33 seconds<br />Page Views 4<br />Referring URL h<a href="ttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=health%20care%20renewal">ttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=health%20care%20renewal</a><br />Search Engine google.com<br />Search Words health care renewal<br />Visit Entry Page <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/</a><br />Visit Exit Page <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/electronic-medication-prescribing-magic.html">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/06/electronic-medication-prescribing-magic.html</a><br />Out Click<br />Time Zone UTC-5:00<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visitor's Time Jul 5 2011 9:07:13 am</span><br />Visit Number 902,285</blockquote><br /><br />and an older one:<br /><br /><blockquote>Domain Name (Unknown)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">IP Address 12.104.41.# (MARSHALL,DENNEHEY,WARNER,COLEMAN)</span><br />ISP AT&T WorldNet Services<br />Location Continent : North America<br />Country : United States (Facts)<br />Language English (U.S.)<br />en-us<br />Operating System Macintosh WinNT<br />Browser Safari 1.3<br />Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.28 Safari/534.24<br />Javascript version 1.5<br />Monitor Resolution : 1280 x 1024<br />Color Depth : 32 bits<br />Time of Visit Apr 4 2011 12:12:05 pm<br />Last Page View Apr 4 2011 12:33:44 pm<br />Visit Length 21 minutes 39 seconds<br />Page Views 30<br />Referring URL<br />Visit Entry Page <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/</a><br />Visit Exit Page <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/03/malpractices-of-multitudes-mission.html">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/03/malpractices-of-multitudes-mission.html</a><br />Out Click<br />Time Zone UTC-5:00<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visitor's Time Apr 4 2011 12:12:05 pm</span><br />Visit Number 860,621</blockquote><br />Note 30 page views in the latter data.<br /><br />-- SS

Law firms as enablers of HIT experiments? Familiar law firm now regular reader of Healthare Renewal

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