Criminal matter for the Attorney General of NY? Hail the gods of medical computing, and the need for human sacrifice. NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders

I believe the suffering and death of my mother in 2010-2011 due to EHR flaws - including but not limited to lack of essential confirmation dialogs on medication deletion at triage, lack of notification messages informing down-line staff of such action by unqualified personnel (inadequate support of teamwork), and other issues - lends me some moral standing to comment on the following as a horrifying and potentially criminal matter.  (See http://khn.org/news/scot-silverstein-health-information-technology/).Two back-to-back articles appeared in the New York Post: NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insidersBy Michael GartlandMarch 15, 2016 http://nypost.com/2016/03/15/nycs-764m-medical-records-system-will-lead-to-patient-death-insiders/andHospital exec [CMIO] quits, compares $764M upgrade to Challenger disasterBy Michael GartlandMarch 16, 2016 http://nypost.com/2016/03/16/hospital-exec-quits-compares-764m-upgrade-to-challenger-disaster/ It is well-known and indisputable that this technology can and does injure and kill, especially when poorly designed, defective, poorly implemented, or all of the above.  See for instance the ECRI EHR risk Deep Dive study results at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/02/peering-underneath-icebergs-water-level.html.Any official in leadership of health IT who denies this - or sidesteps it - or makes excuses for compromises on health IT safety, especially in view of dire warnings from clinician expe...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: Dr. Charles Perry Elmhurst Hospital Center EPIC healthcare IT risk Michael Gartland Mismanagement NY Post NYC Health and Hospitals politics Ramanathan Raju Source Type: blogs