Cambridge University Hospitals Trust IT Failures: An Open Letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Repeated EHR Failures, Even After £12.7bn Wasted in Failed NHS National IT Programme

Cambridge University Hospitals Trust IT Failures: An Open Letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Repeated EHR Failures, Even After £12.7bn Wasted in Failed NHS National IT Programme

By Unknown at 11:29 AM

Dear Queen Elizabeth, I am an American citizen who has written for years about healthcare information technology mismanagement (IT malpracti...

Politico 2015: EHR sellers using “gag clauses” (despite Koppel/Kreda's 2009 JAMA article on EHR nondisclosure clauses, and my 2009 JAMA Letter to the Editor on how these clauses violate Joint Commission safety standards)

Politico 2015: EHR sellers using “gag clauses” (despite Koppel/Kreda's 2009 JAMA article on EHR nondisclosure clauses, and my 2009 JAMA Letter to the Editor on how these clauses violate Joint Commission safety standards)

By Unknown at 11:04 AM

I have not blogged on EHR issues in some time, despite some interesting source material such as: " Evidence Summary: Electronic Health ...

Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue

Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue

By Unknown at 11:09 AM

Here are three candid, quite revealing articles about the distaste for today's health IT that appeared recently.  I will address each, T...

An ironically titled session by ECRI Institute: "Would You Bet Your Mother's Life on the Safety of Your EHR?"

An ironically titled session by ECRI Institute: "Would You Bet Your Mother's Life on the Safety of Your EHR?"

By Unknown at 10:25 AM

An ironically titled session by ECRI Institute "Would You Bet Your Mother's Life on the Safety of Your EHR?" is being held at...

JAMIA: Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems

JAMIA: Reduction in medication errors in hospitals due to adoption of computerized provider order entry systems

By Unknown at 6:26 PM

A new article appeared online 20 February 2013 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associati...