Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say

I am providing a number of editorial comments about this familiar story of health IT difficulties (in red italics ), and additionally highli...

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How to Fix EMRs: Shoreline Pools, Electronic Medical Records and Criminally Negligent Homicide

There are many parallels between the health IT sector ( with known injuries and deaths [1]; deliberate lack of regulatory enforcement in pa...

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How Academic and Government "Anecdotes Are Not Data" Ideologues Kill People

I'm already receiving comments that, regarding Prof. Jon Patrick's detailed exposé of the dangers of ill-suited-for-purpose ED EHR...

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Health IT and 'High Regulatory Standards': Criminal Negligence for Implementing Defective Systems That Put Data in the Wrong Charts?

Over at the HIStalk blog (a blog whose owner remains anonymous, and who uses an ISP that does not reveal information that could be used to...

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