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 ...

Dallas Hospital reverses EHR-related explanation for fumbling Ebola case

At my Oct. 2, 2014 post " Did Electronic Medical Record-mediated problems contribute to or cause the current Dallas Ebola scare?" ...

Did Electronic Medical Record-mediated problems contribute to or cause the current Dallas Ebola scare?

[10/3/2014 Note:  my suspicions were correct - see addenda below.] This story merits special scrutiny in relation to EHR dangers (see for in...

Regulation of HIT by federal independent agency vs. federal executive agency / Open criminal probe of GM recall

In the FY2014 HHS budget-in-brief document (PDF at http://www.hhs.gov/budget/fy2014/fy-2014-budget-in-brief.pdf ) on page 115, there's t...

Health IT Amateurs, Logical Fallacy and Hospital Leadership: An Inhibitor to Good Health IT

An excellent three-part article on local providers' efforts to "join the electronic medical record/clinical IT movement", inc...

Cart Before the Horse, Part 3: AHRQ's "Health IT Hazard Manager"

(Addendum: the AHRQ hazards manager taxonomy report can see seen at http://healthit.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/HealthITHazar...