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

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

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Modern Healthcare: "Health IT Iconoclasts"

The healthcare executive-targeted journal " Modern Healthcare " has named Dr. Ross Koppel, Dr. Deborah Peel, Dr. Larry Weed, and y...

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AMIA: Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of EHR systems, but ... no sympathy for victims of bad health IT?

A panel of experts from the American Medical Informatics Association have written a paper " Enhancing patient safety and quality of car...

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ONC and "Health IT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan": When Sociologists Uphold the Hippocratic Oath While Physicians Pay Respect to the Lords of Kobol, We Are in a Dark Place, Ethically

[Note: this essay contains many hyperlinks. They can be right-clicked and opened in a separate tab or window.] I've been meaning to wr...

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