Someone wasn ' t listening to me at my 2012 Keynote to the Health Informatics Society of Australia

In late July 2012 I gave an invited keynote presentation to the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) at the annual Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2012), that year in Sydney.I wrote up my presentation at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-presentation-to-health-informatics.html and my slide deck is online at http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/HISA2012_Final.ppt.My message included the following:Critical thinking is essential at all times in healthcare ... or your patient ' s dead.Critical thinking is not mindless criticism; on the contrary, it is reflective, inquisitive, logical thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do.Health IT must be trusted by users and patients [and be free of major downsides] - as a primary step before HIT can optimally benefit healthcare I pointed out I am not suggesting anything new and that, in fact, I am suggesting something old:  " First, do no harm. "I pointed out the " revolutions " usually have downsides, and IT always produces winners...and losers (per the empirical research of Social Informatics). I also asked if health IT was being done well...I provided links to various evidence that it was not, such as the National Research Council 2009 report on health IT; AMIA ' s report on its workshop on healthcare IT failure, the 2012 U.S. IOM report on safety, the 2012 U.S. NIST report on usability, work by Australian Professor Jon Patrick of U. Sy...
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