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Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems: ED EHR Systems Pose Serious Concerns, Report Says
A report "Quality and Safety Implications of Emergency Department Information Systems"appeared in the Oct. 2013 issue of "Annals of Emergency Medicine." It is available fulltext at http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2813%2900506-4/fulltext, or in PDF via the tab, free as of this writing.First, a preamble: I once tried to alert a hospital where I'd trained decades before, Abington Memorial Hospital (http://www.amh.org/), of impediments to safe care I'd noted in their EHR's, predominantly their ED EHR. They did not listen. In fact, their response to my concerns was characterized by an appar...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT risk Abington Memorial Hospital postmarketing surveillance EDIS healthcare IT regulation healthcare IT safety Chris Jay Hoofnagle emergency department Source Type: blogs
Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"
At my Dec. 2012 post "How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist in the 10's" I mentioned an interview by a reporter from the Kaiser Health Foundation interviewed me regarding health IT flaws.His article appeared in both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Kaiser Health News today under the title "The flaws of electronic records":Philadelphia Inquirer / Kaiser Health NewsFeb. 18, 2013Jay Hancock, KAISER HEALTH NEWSThe flaws of electronic recordsDrexel University's Scot Silverstein is a leading critic of the rapid switch to computerized medical charts, saying the n...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Richard Cook Philadelphia Inquirer healthcare IT risk ross koppel David Blumenthal Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Health News george lundberg ONC matthew holt Jay Hancock IOM Source Type: blogs
Some Real-World Lessons for the Health IT Hyper-Enthusiasts
An article was published in Health Leaders Media yesterday by Scott Mace, senior technology editor entitled "Scot Silverstein's Good Health IT and Bad Health IT" at this link.(Actually, the terms "good health IT" and "bad health IT" themselves came as a result of my discussions in Australia with Prof. Jon Patrick of my conviction, presented to the Health Informatics Society of Australia in my Aug. 2012 talk "Critical Thinking on Building Trusted, Transformative Medical Information: Improving Health IT as the First Step", that to be trusted and do no harm, health IT must be “done well".)Scott Mace observes:Inevitabl...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: healthcare IT unintended consequences healthcare IT difficulties Ddulite Kiran Raj Pandey healthcare IT toxicity Wes Fisher MD Source Type: blogs
