Good Health and Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but "no medical information was looked at or compromised". Elvonda

On this blog I have an entire series of posts regarding EHR crashes that point out an absurd-on-its-face and, in fact, insulting boilerplate...

Good Health and Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public. Elvonda

This is a case of education - I hope - by fire on electronic information security, and why "going electronic" can be a risky busin...

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...

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...

Good Health and Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow hacker invasion that cripples EHRs, disrupts clinicians ... but patient safety and confidentiality not compromised. Elvonda

To the cybernetic idealists out there who think computers are the greatest thing next to sliced bread in the healthcare environment, I say, ...

Good Health and Who Benefits? - Despite Data Breaches, Staff Cuts, Vulnerable Patients' Coverage Cuts, Transplant Program Probation, Multi-Million Dollar Executive Compensation Persists at UPMC. Elvonda

There are so many things wrong with US and global health care that it is easy to get lost in the details, and despair of finding solutions. ...