By Gusty Tuesday, 9 August 2016 Christiana Care Health System healthcare IT difficulties ICCD invasive cardiology paperless Good Health and More on uncoupling clinicians from EHR clerical oppression. Elvonda At my August 6, 2016 post ( link ) I wrote of my belief that "best practices" for EHR evolution call for: ... a return to paper (s...
By Gusty Monday, 8 August 2016 Connecture healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT incompetence IBX.com Independence Blue Cross Inflow medical record confidentiality Good Health and Weird emails from Independence Blue Cross via its IT outsourcing partners: showing yet more health IT industry trust-destroying incompetence. Elvonda In the past week I've received two emails that made me highly suspicious of medical/insurance identity theft. The emails came from Indep...
By Gusty Wednesday, 13 July 2016 Beaumont Hospital cerner healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT exceptionalism healthcare IT litigation Mismanagement PinnacleHealth Siemens Siemens Healthcare Soarian Good Health and Two recent stories of EHR un-exceptionalism, and a connection to prior HC Renewal posts including my own experiences. Elvonda The following stories recently appeared in the press about the "un-exceptionalism" (or, I might more accurately state, the negativ...
By Gusty Tuesday, 7 June 2016 healthcare IT benefits healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT dissatisfaction healthcare IT risk New York Times Steve Lohr Good Health and NY Times/Steve Lohr asks "Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive." The answer in medicine is obvious.. Elvonda In a June 5, 2016 article, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr ( http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/steve_lohr/inde...
By Gusty Tuesday, 31 May 2016 Cindy E. Harnett healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT risk Island Health Nanaimo Toni O'Keeffe Victoria Times Colonist Good Health and HIT Mayhem, Canadian Style: Nanaimo doctors say electronic health record system unsafe, should be shut down, non-medical PR hacks say it's perfectly safe. Elvonda Some candid honesty: To hell with doctors and nurses and their concerns about horrible health IT. That seems the international standard i...
By Gusty Wednesday, 27 May 2015 Bob Wachter David Blumenthal healthcare IT difficulties healthcare IT dissatisfaction Healthcare IT experiment Jayne O'Donnell Sally Murphy USA Today Good Health and Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records. Elvonda EHR utopian dreams have taken some pronounced hits in recent years. In recent months, the hyper-enthusiasts and their government allies hav...