HIT Mayhem, Canadian Style: Nanaimo doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut down, non-medical PR hacks say it's perfectly safe

Some candid honesty:To hell with doctors and nurses and their concerns about horrible health IT.   That seems the international standard in 2016 regarding their concerns.  There's just too much money to be made in this business to worry about such piddling annoyances as maimed and dead patients.Doctors, after all, don't know anything about computers, and cybernetic medical experiments on unconsenting human subjects are just good fun.This new example from Canada:http://www.theprovince.com/health/local-health/nanaimo+doctors+electronic+health+record+system/11947563/story.html Nanaimo doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut downBy Cindy E. HarnettVictoria Times Colonist May 27, 2016Implementation of a $174-million Vancouver Island-wide electronic health record system in Nanaimo Regional General Hospital — set to expand to Victoria by late 2017 — is a huge failure, say senior physicians.Who cares what they say?  They're just doctors, so sayeth the imperial hospital executives..  After a year of testing, the new paperless iHealth system rolled out in Nanaimo on March 19. Island Health heralds the system as the first in the province to connect all acute-care and diagnostic services through one electronic patient medical record, the first fully integrated electronic chart in the province.EHR pioneer Dr. Donald Lindberg, retired head of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, called such total command-and-control systems "...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: Cindy E. Harnett healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT risk Island Health Nanaimo Toni O ' Keeffe Victoria Times Colonist Source Type: blogs