At least former ONC chair Blumenthal now says "health IT can [even] cause safety issues." Other than that, it's unicorns and fairies in the Harvard Business Review.

The truth about healthcare IT, that it is perilously insecure, and is causing clinician despair and patient harm, is increasingly becoming mainstream.  For example, seen at the eclectic, widely read, multi-author website of Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University if Tennessee Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit (http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/):REMEMBER THE HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH? Apparently so did some hackers:“To improve the quality of our health care while lowering its cost, we will make the immediate investments necessary to ensure that, within five years, all of America’s medical records are computerized,” President Obama said. “This will cut waste, eliminate red tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests.”  While the shift Obama and many others pushed may have improved care, electronic medical records led to quite the unique hostage situation in Los Angeles this week. There, a hospital fell prey to a cyberattack — and the hospital has escaped its plight by paying hackers a $17,000 ransom.Government mandates and electronic security don’t seem to be a very good mix.Posted at by Stephen Green on Feb 18, 2016 at 7:31 am Linkand this:MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Futuristic Data Security With A Pen And A Pad. “If I were running an intelligence agency, I’d have all my important stuff done in handwriting or on mechanical typewriters (the old kind that type over the same fabric ribbon multiple times) and distribut...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: David Blumenthal Glenn Reynolds Harvard Business Review healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT dissatisfaction healthcare IT utopianism Instapundit Source Type: blogs