Drip, Drip, Drip - the Steady Accumulation of Little Cases Pointing to Big Problems

Sometimes an apparently insignificant noise can signal a big problem, like the sound of dripping water in a room with no visible plumbing. T...

"The tragedy of electronic medical records"

The Indianapolis Business Journal has published this article, citing former head of Indiana University's Regenstrief Institute, a world ...

A "Bag of Money," but Executive Says Don't "Give Me Any of that Ethics Cr*p" - DaVita's Latest Settlement for $400 Million

A striking story of a large recent legal settlement, with reminders of previous related settlements, quietly slipped out in the midst of the...

InformaticsMD in Podcast by Neil Versel

Neil Versel is a journalist specializing in health IT, mobile health, patient safety, quality of care and the business of healthcare.  He is...

Judy Faulkner and EPIC, Show us your EHR screens

At " Congressional committee releases timeline detailing how Presbyterian treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan ", Dallas News,...

Are Million Dollar Plus Business Trained Managers the Right People to Lead Health Care in the Time of Ebola?

You can guess my opinion on the answer. Introduction News and opinions about Ebola virus are swirling around the US, fueled by a tragic epid...

If we had a widespread outbreak of virulent, drug-resistant Bubonic Plague in another country, would we ban travel from that country to ours?

Bubonic plague is known to have killed massive numbers of people in the 6th century and after ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague ...

The Mystery of the Discharged Ebola Patient - Where is Sherlock Holmes When We Need Him?

As discussion, if not outright panic, about Ebola infections increases in the US, it is still hard to figure out what heath care professiona...

Speculation about EHR role in Texas Ebola debacle vs. real evidence - will it take a lawsuit to know what's real? Probably.

In the past several days the media has been abuzz with stories about the admission, then the following retraction, by a Texas hospital that ...

Can Our Dysfunctional Health Care System Contain Ebola?

Not to bury the lede, I think it can, but it will be a lot harder than the talking heads on television predict. I have been writing about he...