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Patients as lab rats for beta software: have sancrosanct patient's rights been trivialized, while poor software of non-trivial risk been sanctified?

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I have noted a class action lawsuit vs. Allscripts and Eclipsys, EHR producers, regarding a merger: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN D...

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...

Affinity RNs Call for Halt to Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled to Go Live Friday

thumbnail At my May 30, 2013 post " Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients ....

"Computer problems" force docs back to paper charts at Memorial Hospital - From June 11 until at least June 24?

thumbnail More on the wonders and dependability of commercial health IT, as implemented in hospitals, which are generally an IT backwaters: ...

Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients .. CEO Cites Defective HHS Paper and Red Herrings As Excuse Why He Knowingly Allows This To Continue

thumbnail - Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on May 30, 2013 - The following appeared in the Marin County Independent Journal about an EHR system...

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...

AMA says EHRs create 'appalling Catch-22' for docs - And just how many experts does it take to screw in a light bulb, anyway?

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(NOTE:  this post, being about minor matters like death and financial mayhem, is particularly and unusually [even for me] biting and lacking...

Johns Hopkins: Thanks to EHRs, time with patients seems “squeezed out” of medical training, investigator says

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Question:  Who would have thought it?  That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT h...

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...

Fred Schulte: "GOP senators call for overhaul of electronic health records program"

thumbnail Fred Schulte, investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity ( link to bio ), has authored a new article worth reading in its ent...

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...