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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...

A War on Patients: Panel Says EHRs Should Not Be Vetted Before Marketing and Deployment

thumbnail "First, do harm - it's a learning experience, and injured or dead patients are just a bump in the road, anyway" - the apparent...

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...

Is ONC's definition of "Significant EHR Risk" when body bags start to accumulate on the steps of the Capitol?

thumbnail In a June 25, 2013 Bloomberg News article " Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems " by technology repor...

Peering Underneath the Iceberg's Water Level: AMNews on the New ECRI "Deep Dive" Study of Health IT "Events"

thumbnail FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...

From another happy EHR user: automatic data "corrections" that alter the past

thumbnail From another happy EHR user: One of my patients was married in late 2012.   Her name changed from XXXX to YYYY. Today I incidentally reviewe...

New York Times: "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry"

thumbnail The New York Times has published an article today by Julie Creswell entitled " A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Indu...

Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"

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At my Dec. 2012 post " How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist...