Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Once again, a definition of bad health IT: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 evidentiary fitness, or otherwise demonstrates suboptimal design and/or implementation. (http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/)I observed bad health IT leading to HIT compromise, hospital chaos and paying of a ransom demand at my Feb. 18, 2016 post "Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow hacker invasion that cripples EHRs, disrupts clinicians ... but patient safety and confidentiality not compromised" at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/02/hollywood-presbyterian-medical-center.html. It's happened again, at least with regard to publicly-disclosed stories (there is no requirement for hospital disclosure, more on that below).FBI probing virus behind outage at MedStar Health facilities - APBy JACK GILLUM, DAVID DISHNEAU and TAMI ABDOLLAH March 28, 2016 10:04 pmhttp://wtop.com/consumer-tech/2016/03/fbi-probing-virus-behind-outage-at-medstar-health-facilities/WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers crippled...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: computer security healthcare IT risk Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center medical record confidentiality MedStar Health Patient care has not been compromised Source Type: blogs