Not just bad health IT, but SPECTACULARLY bad health IT

I define bad healthcare IT 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, lacks evidentiary soundness, compromises patient privacy or otherwise demonstrates suboptimal design and/or implementation. (http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/)Here is an example of not just bad health IT, but SPECTACULARLY bad health IT.I offer no additional commentary because 1) I am tried from having to pick apart the work product of health IT amateurs who create nightmare systems, and other fools, and 2) none is needed.--------------------------------------------------------------From KevinMD blog:,https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2018/01/16-page-note-little-information-help-physicians.html:A 16-page note with little information to help physiciansNIRAN S. AL-AGBA, MD | PHYSICIAN | JANUARY 19, 2018My pediatric practice is one which harkens back to days long ago when physicians knew their patients and pertinent medical histories by heart. My 81-year-old father and I were in practice together for the past 16 years; he still used the very sophisticated “hunt and peck” to compose...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: bad health IT healthcare IT amateur KevinMD Niran S. Al-Agba Source Type: blogs