Thứ Sáu, 15 tháng 3, 2013

IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records

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Try this with paper records.  This is spectacular (as in, spectacularly alarming) if true: IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 m...

Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux

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There are new, and troubling developments in the long running case of Dan Markingson, the psychiatric patient and research subject who commi...
Thứ Năm, 14 tháng 3, 2013

JAMA: "Improving the Electronic Health Record—Are Clinicians Getting What They Wished For?" - No, But Utopia Arrives Soon

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At a new JAMA piece " Improving the Electronic Health Record—Are Clinicians Getting What They Wished For? ", former Columbia U. a...
Thứ Tư, 13 tháng 3, 2013

But don't worry, your EHR information is secure

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My last reminder of this issue was almost a half-year ago, but I think a repeat is in order. More bugs squashed: Microsoft fixes critical Wi...
Thứ Hai, 11 tháng 3, 2013

The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments

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A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go...

When "Human Error" Causes EHR Downtime, Who is Liable For Patient Injuries That Result?

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In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was this story of yet another EHR " glitch ": March 9, 2013 12:17 am   Human error the cause of UPM...
Chủ Nhật, 10 tháng 3, 2013

Far more concern about Linux user experience than the EHR user experience, and your life does not depend on the former

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I find this ironic and striking: During my informatics postdoc I used a SparcStation-2 running UNIX and an old X Windows user interface.  Th...