This bodes poorly for future physician quality: The doctor won't see you now DANIELLE OFRI Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 11, 2013 12:03...
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Doctors now spend more time with computers than they do with patients
This bodes poorly for future physician quality: The doctor won't see you now DANIELLE OFRI Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 11, 2013 12:03...
Candid Nurse EHR Opinions at Facebook Page "Friend a Nurse" Are Not So Friendly
EHR importance vastly oversold? Community health center battles for electronic patients' records - but patient care goes on anyway
There are two lessons from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story below. 1) Beware outsourcing the ownership of your hospital or clinic's ...
Electronic siloing: An unintended consequence of the electronic health record - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
EHR systems have largely been designed by those of a manufacturing, mercantile, and management computing background, largely due to abdicati...
Want to help a hospital go bankrupt? Get a bad EHR - Westchester hospitals' sale price over $54 million, Hospitals' debt about $200M
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on June 3, 2013 - Sound Shore Medical Center (New Rochelle, NY) is filing for bankruptcy protectio...
Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"
A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' su...
Repost: Health IT Ten Commandments (1970) v. Health IT Truisms (2012)
I believe this Oct. 2012 post bears repeating, especially in view of the recent ECRI Deep Dive study of health IT risk (36 hospitals/9 week...
Fred Schulte: "GOP senators call for overhaul of electronic health records program"
Fred Schulte, investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity ( link to bio ), has authored a new article worth reading in its ent...
JAMA: "Improving the Electronic Health Record—Are Clinicians Getting What They Wished For?" - No, But Utopia Arrives Soon
At a new JAMA piece " Improving the Electronic Health Record—Are Clinicians Getting What They Wished For? ", former Columbia U. a...
When "Human Error" Causes EHR Downtime, Who is Liable For Patient Injuries That Result?
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...
Twitter EHR "revolt": #EHRbacklash
As noted at the new IEEE Spectrum piece " U. S. Electronic Health Record Initiative: A Backlash Growing? " (worth reading in its ...
Comments by Dr. Reed Gelzer on RAND Health IT Report and Op-Ed in Pittsburgh Post Gazette
A 2005 RAND Corporation report predicted that health IT could save the U.S. healthcare system $81 billion a year. Since then, however, ann...
Dr. Richard Cook on the Health IT Sector's Ills
This explanation of the health IT sector's ills comes from Dr. Richard Cook , a physician, educator, researcher, and patient safety expe...
New York Times: "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry"
The New York Times has published an article today by Julie Creswell entitled " A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Indu...
