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Full Moon Friday the 13th: Computers down at Vermont's largest hospital
A health IT "glitch" hit in Vermont on Full Moon Friday the 13th (have some werewolf with your bad luck!) Dark Shadows' Quenti...
Masters of the Obvious at Athens Regional Medical Center: Lack of clinician input, training, common sense created problems with Athens Regional electronic records system - but mostly lack of common sense
(Note: also see my earlier May 26, 2014 post at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/05/i-could-not-make-this-up-if-i-tried.html ) My early me...
CMS does not have any information that supports or refutes claims that a broader adoption of EHRs can save lives?
If this is true, the EHR hyper-enthusiasm problem is even worse than I believed. From the April 2014 newsletter of the American Association ...
FDA on health IT risk: reckless, or another GM-like political coverup? "We don't know the magnitude of the risk, and what we do know is the tip of the iceberg, but health IT is of 'sufficiently low risk' that we don't need to regulate it."
In my Sept. 16, 2013 post "An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against...
EHR recall: Use of this affected product may cause serious adverse health consequences, including death
Here is another example of a grossly defective health IT product, this from last year but only posted by FDA publicly on 3/14/2014 at http:/...
Forbes contributor Nicole Fisher, claimed proponent of healthcare human rights, writes long article on EHRs that neglects to mention patient harm
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...
Medical Malpractice Insurer CRICO Challenges "EMR Complacency" - Or Do They?
In my Feb. 28, 2014 post " Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs " ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/02/patient-sa...
We're Sorry ... Our New EMR May Screw Up Your Care, But Don't Worry ... Patient Safety Has Not Been Compromised
A sign seen at a hospital system recently (name redacted): We're Sorry for any "Delays" as we start using our new EMR system ....
InformaticsMD on NPR Affiliate KNPR regarding electronic medical record privacy: St. Rose hospital group used patient information to solicit patient lobbying?
Radio station News 88.9 KNPR , the NPR affiliate in Las Vegas did a segment today on the following news story. The station's Senior Pr...