Boulder Community Hospital computer system crash: Either you're in control of your information systems, or they're in control of you

Yet another health IT crash, "prolonged" this time, from some unspecified "glitch":Boulder Community Hospital computer system crash frustrates patientsOfficials say it could take until Friday for outage to be resolvedBy Brittany AnasCamera Staff WriterPosted:   03/18/2013 07:23:23 PM MDTUpdated:   03/18/2013 07:24:16 PM MDTA prolonged computer system outage is preventing Boulder Community Hospital from accessing patient records -- making it difficult for people to schedule surgeries, get test results and make appointments for routine blood work.Meditech, the system used by the hospital to manage patient records, went down in the middle of last week. It could take the hospital until Friday to get the system back up, said Rich Sheehan, spokesman for Boulder Community. That fits my definition of "prolonged."While information technology officials are investigating what caused the outage, Sheehan said patient records are protected and hospital officials don't believe they've been hacked.  That's not very reassuring, considering the length of the outage.The outage affects the hospital, its Foothills campus, eight laboratories and six imaging centers.  Patients are on its face put at-risk ... for example, I know of several deaths of infants and adults from delayed x-ray reports alone ... but the clinicians, not the IT seller or hospital IT staff, are liable."We know medical care is important to people, so we understand the concerns those in the commu...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: glitch Meditech healthcare IT crash Boulder Community Hospital Rich Sheehan healthcare IT risks Source Type: blogs