Bug in MetaVision ICU system potentially catastrophic - American bad health IT goes Down Under

I have often written in this blog about healthcare IT defects and the lack of quality control regulation and safety testing.   I have indicated that patients have become guinea pigs for software development and testing, and healthcare facilities a software beta testing "proving ground" and defects remediation site.This should all be occurring in the lab, not on live patients who've never given their consent to the use of these experimental cybernetic "command and control" systems that, in fact, regulate and govern their care in many ways.Now there's this from Down Under in the journal Pulse*IT:http://www.pulseitmagazine.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2127:bug-in-metavision-icu-system-potentially-catastrophic Bug in MetaVision ICU system potentially catastrophicWritten by Kate McDonald on 27 October 2014.A bug in the MetaVision intensive care software package being rolled out in several Brisbane hospitals has been identified as having the potential to seriously harm or even kill patients, several media outlets are reporting.Fairfax's The Brisbane Times reported that a risk assessment by the Metro North Hospital and Health Service - which covers Brisbane's Prince Charles and Royal Brisbane and Women's (RBWH) hospitals - had found potentially catastrophic problems with prescription errors caused by the system that had a 60 to 90 per cent likelihood of causing a patient death.MetaVision, from US vendor iMDsoft, is one of the few special...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: bad health IT glitch healthcare IT defects healthcare IT risk iMDsoft Kate McDonald MetaVision ICU system Pulse*IT Queensland Health Source Type: blogs