An eloquently expressed lesson from Nanaimo (Canada) on electronic medical records failure

Unfortunately, this eloquent piece on EHR failure expresses precisely the major problems with this experimental technology thatgeneric medical managers and other medical bureaucrats are unwilling to hear, and/or unable to fully comprehend.At my May 31, 2016 post "HIT Mayhem, Canadian Style: Nanaimo (Vancouver Island) doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut down, non-medical PR hacks say it ' s perfectly safe" at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/05/hit-mayhem-canadian-style-nanaimo.html, I wrote:... 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 ca...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: generic management Healthcare IT experiment Healthcare IT failure healthcare IT risk Mismanagement Nanaimo Vancouver Island Source Type: blogs