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A Good Way to Cybernetically Harm or Kill Emergency Department Patients ... Via An ED EHR "Glitch" That Mangles Prescriptions

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Yet another healthcare IT "glitch" - that banal little word used for potentially life-threatening software defects.  (See the que...

Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper?

thumbnail I believe in 2013 that they are. (Definition of bad health IT is here:  http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) I recent...

Can Digital Disappearing Ink (An EHR "Glitch") Kill Patients? Part 2

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At " Another Health IT "Glitch" - Can Digital Disappearing Ink Kill Patients? " just yesterday, on August 5, 2013, I wro...

Another Health IT "Glitch" - Can Digital Disappearing Ink Kill Patients?

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Yes, it can. There's been yet another "glitch" in the world of health IT (see http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/glitc...

RNs Say Sutter’s New Electronic System Causing Serious Disruptions to Safe Patient Care at East Bay Hospitals

thumbnail Add the following from Sutter East Bay Hospitals to nurses' and physicians' complaints at Marin General Hospital ( http://hcrenewa...

Marin General Hospital nurses warn that new computer system is causing errors, call for time out

thumbnail - Posted on the Healthcare Renewal Blog May 17, 2013 - Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defec...

Financial woes at Maine Medical Center: Reading this blog might have saved them millions of dollars, and prevented massive "cost saving initiatives"

thumbnail In this article, the euphemistic and almost endearing term "hiccup" is used instead of the more traditional " glitch " ...

Healthcare computing 'glitch' time again: 15 patients possibly given wrong antibiotic after lab error at Regina General Hospital

thumbnail Just another computer " glitch ", that innocuous euphemism for a catastrophe-promoting IT defect, this time causing patients to re...

Boulder Community Hospital computer records back on line - but something does not add up

thumbnail This post is in followup to my March 20, 2013 post " Boulder Community Hospital computer system crash: Either you're in control of...

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

thumbnail Yet another health IT crash, "prolonged" this time, from some unspecified " glitch ": Boulder Community Hospital compute...

When "Human Error" Causes EHR Downtime, Who is Liable For Patient Injuries That Result?

thumbnail In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was this story of yet another EHR " glitch ": March 9, 2013 12:17 am   Human error the cause of UPM...

Bad Health IT -Yet Another Health IT 'Glitch' - Potential Image Loss in GE Centricity PACS; ECRI Again Reports Health IT a Top Ten Hospital Risk

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From my definition of bad health IT (BHIT) at this link : Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, ...

UK: Another Example of IT Malpractice With Bad Health IT (BHIT) Affecting Thousands of Patients, But, As Always, Patient Care Was "Not Compromised"

thumbnail At my Dec. 2011 post " IT Malpractice? Yet Another "Glitch" Affecting Thousands of Patients. Of Course, As Always, Patient C...

Clinicians: How to Document the EHR Screens You Encounter That Cause Concern

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Healthcare IT " glitches " as reported on this blog should make any clinician - and patient - wary of the technology in its presen...