A Very Sad Saga Where Good Initial Intentions With Digital Health Were Subverted With Harm Now Obvious.

This appeared a few days ago. It is a long and important read with many lessons. ------ No Safety Switch: How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk By Fred Schulte and Erika Fry, Fortune November 21, 2019 Plans for putting patient safety first — and for building a comprehensive injury reporting and reviewing system — have stalled fo r nearly a decade.KEY TAKEAWAYSOver the past 10 years, stakeholders have squabbled over how best to collect injury data, over who has the power to require it, over who should pay for it, and over whether to make public damning findings and the names of those responsible.In 2015, Congress deraile d a long-planned EHR safety center, first by challenging the government's authority to create it and later by declining to fund it.A year later, Congress stripped the FDA of its power to regulate the industry or even to track malfunctions and injuries. ------  In fall 2009,... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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