By Gusty Friday 8 January 2016 CRICO healthcare IT harms healthcare IT risk ICD-10 Journal of Patient Safety tip of the iceberg Good Health and Yet another observation that known health IT-caused injuries and deaths are "the tip of the iceberg". Elvonda I've noted a new observation of the limited data available on health IT harms being the (quote) " tip of the iceberg ." This s...
By Gusty Friday 27 November 2015 dean sittig healthcare it design defects healthcare IT risk ross koppel Good Health and Ross Koppel challenges feckless academics on poor health IT design. Elvonda The academic health IT community has spent the past decade (at least) burying their collective ostrich heads in the sand about the crappy so...
By Gusty Wednesday 6 May 2015 Arthur Allen healthcare IT litigation healthcare IT risk Politico Good Health and Politico: Electronic record errors growing issue in lawsuits. Elvonda The indefatigable Arthur Allen of Politico.com has authored a nice piece on the issue of EHRs being a cause of medical malpractice, with res...
By Gusty Saturday 25 April 2015 Chair Adam Duininck Commissioner Kevin Lindsey Commissioner Lucinda Jesson Edward Ehlinger healthcare IT myths healthcare IT risk Minnesota Heath Commissioner minnpost.com Good Health and Open Letter to Minnesota's Heath Commissioner Dr. Edward Ehlinger on ill-informed health IT puff piece. Elvonda Minnesota's Heath Commissioner Dr. Edward Ehlinger penned a puff piece on EHRs entitled "Electronic health records advance quality ...
By Gusty Monday 2 March 2015 Appeal-Democrat healthcare IT crash healthcare IT risk Patient care has not been compromised Rideout Hospital Robert Chason Good Health and Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash. Elvonda EHRs and other clinical IT are touted as essential to improving safety, among many other benefits. Yet when hospital systems crash, the comm...
By Gusty Tuesday 17 February 2015 AMA healthcare IT dangers healthcare IT distraction healthcare IT risk HITECH Jeffrey A. Singer MD Wall Street Journal Good Health and Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare�s Electronic-Records Debacle" . Elvonda This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker: Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entitle...