Disastrously conceived, managed, and implemented U.S. Coast Guard EHR leaves our Coast Guard heroes safer ... after reversion to paper records

Sometimes, the typical EHR mismanagement debacles that I have been writing about since at least 1999 leave patientssafer.  This is one such example.I note that the contents of this blog, as well as my still-extant Drexel website "Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good Health IT, Bad Health IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties" (http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/) and many other resources about healthcare IT mismanagement and failure, are available free of cost.  They could have saved the Coast Guard many millions of dollars if their contents had been reviewed and taken seriously.(I take no pleasure in making these observations.)In yet example of gross health IT mismanagement, areversion back to paperis far safer than this catastrophically bad health IT would have been, had it been turned on:After failure of EHR program, Coast Guard needs to find new solution ASAP, watchdog saysZaid ShorbajeeFedscoop NewsJanuary 31, 2018https://www.fedscoop.com/failure-ehr-program-coast-guard-needs-find-new-solution-asap-watchdog-says/The U.S. Coast Guard must urgently find and implement a new electronic health records system, the Government Accountability Office says in a report,after a past project that took half a decade failed and left the organization using a paper process.The Coast Guard began working with Wisconsin-based Epic Systems in 2010 to implement a new EHR system, dubbed Integrated Health Information System (IHiS). Over the fol...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: Coast Guard EPIC Fedscoop News health IT failure IHiS Zaid Shorbajee Source Type: blogs