By Gusty Wednesday, 30 March 2016 hacking MedStar Health Stephen R.T. Evans Good Health and Medstar Health CEO basically admits EHRs are unnecessary after hackers take out its HIT. Elvonda It's corporate spin, of course, but that's the plain meaning of what he says: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/ 2016/03/29/medstar-para...
By Gusty Tuesday, 29 March 2016 computer security healthcare IT risk Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center medical record confidentiality MedStar Health Patient care has not been compromised Good Health and Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral). Elvonda Once again, a definition of bad health IT: Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, un...
By Gusty Wednesday, 6 May 2015 healthcare IT crash healthcare IT outage MedStar Health Patient care has not been compromised Politico Good Health and Another day, another EHR outage: MEDSTAR EHR goes dark for days. Elvonda At my March 2, 2015 post " Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash ...