In Fixing Those 9,553 EHR "Issues", Southern Arizona’s Largest Health Network is $28.5 Million In The Red

At my Nov. 9, 2013 post H3 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }H3.cjk { font-family: "Droid Sans Fallback"; }H3.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Hindi"; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in;"We’ve resolved 6,036 issues and have 3,517 open issues" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/11/weve-resolved-6036-issues-and-have-3517.html) I wrote about "issues" (i.e., "glitches" including potentially injurious or deadly bugs and malfunctions) the organization was having with a new EHR at University of Arizona Health System.Now we know part of the cost of resolving those 9,553 "issues."http://azstarnet.com/news/science/health-med-fit/tucson-area-s-largest-area-network-racks-up-nearly-million/article_44d05d04-0acf-5fbc-8561-68d4bef3b577.htmlTucson area's largest health network racks up nearly $30 million in lossesJune 01, 2014  •  By Emily Bregel, Stephanie Innes P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { } Southern Arizona’s largest health network is $28.5 million in the red so far this fiscal year, and officials say a costly electronic medical records system is largely to blame.The operating loss is unprecedented for the four-year-old University of Arizona Health Network, which includes two local hospitals.Stellar management was clearly responsible for this wonderful outcome.  When will the layoffs start, I ask? That's the usual managerial solution for financial losses, and in this case I feel particularly worried about employees who did not obey the "suggestion" to only use "W...
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