ONC and "Health IT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan": When Sociologists Uphold the Hippocratic Oath While Physicians Pay Respect to the Lords of Kobol, We Are in a Dark Place, Ethically
[Note: this essay contains many hyperlinks. They can be right-clicked and opened in a separate tab or window.]I've been meaning to write more on the just-before-Christmas, Friday afternoon, minimal-visibility release of the ONC report I'd written about in my Dec. 23, 2012 post "ONC's Christmas Confessional on Health IT Safety: HIT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan for Public Comment." (The ONC report itself is available at this link in PDF.)The Boston Globe and Globe staff writer Chelsea Conaboy, however, have beaten me to the punch in the Jan. 3, 2013 article "Federal government releases patient ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Cliff Rieders Chelsea Conaboy ross koppel Cybernetik Über Alles HIT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan healthcare IT safety Boston Globe Ashish Jha ONC John Halamka Source Type: blogs
