HIMSS 2016 Presentation: Plaintiff's Lawyers Are The Cause of EHR Problems. They're Using Pristine, White-as-the-Blowing-Snow EHRs as "An Opportunity for Litigation"

In perhaps the most ill-informed, perverse rationalization/defense of bad health IT I've seen to date, the following appeared in an article about an upcoming HIMSS presentation (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's health IT mega-industry trade show, http://www.himssconference.org).I remind readers of the definition of bad health IT coined by myself and Australian polymath/informatics scientist Dr. Jon Patrick in 2012, as at my Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics website "Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good Health IT, Bad Health IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties" at http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/:Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive to customize to the needs of different medical specialists and subspecialists, causes cognitive overload, slows rather than facilitates users, lacks appropriate alerts, creates the need for hypervigilance (i.e., towards avoiding IT-related mishaps) that increases stress, is lacking in security, compromises patient privacy or otherwise demonstrates suboptimal design and/or implementation.To this definition I should add "that does not support evidentiary trustworthiness."The article tries to make the case that Plaintiff's lawyers are "targeting" the innocent EHR: Amid surge in malpractice lawsuits, EHRs often targeted i...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: evidence spoliation Greg Goth healthcare IT evidentiary issues Healthcare IT News healthcare IT risk Mary Re Knack Ogden Murphy Wallace Reed Gelzer Source Type: blogs