Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 9, 2013

N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web, Including Medical Records - Yet Another Reason To Be Concerned About What You Tell Your Physician

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There's already a major issue with privacy and protection of medical records in electronic form.  See the multiple blog posts at this qu...
Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 9, 2013

Market Fundamentalism and the Denial of Conflicts of Interest, and of Worse Offenses

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While we often point out the pervasiveness of conflicts of interest in medicine and health care, and the likely ill effects of this state o...

Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default Values - With Only Four Reports of "Temporary" (By the Grace of God) Patient Harm

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From Health Data Management and the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority : Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default Value Joseph Goedert...
Thứ Tư, 28 tháng 8, 2013

Setback for Sutter after $1B EHR crashes (in followup to post "RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals")

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At my July 12, 2013 post "RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals...

Calling Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry and Dr. Curly: Advocate Medical Breach of Four Million Patient Records, and No Encryption

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At my Oct. 2011 post " Still More Electronic Medical Data Chaos, Pandemonium, Bedlam, Tumult and Maelstrom: But Don't Worry, Your ...
Thứ Ba, 27 tháng 8, 2013

What Sorts of People are "Most Influential in Healthcare?"

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Modern Healthcare just put out their list of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" for 2013.  A look at what sorts of p...
Thứ Sáu, 23 tháng 8, 2013

A Good Way to Cybernetically Harm or Kill Emergency Department Patients ... Via An ED EHR "Glitch" That Mangles Prescriptions

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Yet another healthcare IT "glitch" - that banal little word used for potentially life-threatening software defects.  (See the que...