Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare: "Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs"

Two " EHR beneficence is not exactly as advertised " stories in one day.  It's hard to keep up: After my earlier post today ...

Should "Diagnosing While Texting" Be Illegal?

I saw an interesting comment at Medscape in the comment thread of the article " Do Your EHR Manners Turn Patients Off? " (MedScape...

Solutionism: are all healthcare issues transparent and self-evident processes that can be easily optimized, if only the right algorithms are in place?

I've ordered this book:  " To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism " by Evgeny Morozov . I'...

Some Real-World Lessons for the Health IT Hyper-Enthusiasts

An article was published in Health Leaders Media yesterday by Scott Mace, senior technology editor entitled "Scot Silverstein's Goo...

WSJ, Koppel and Soumerai: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records - Cost Savings Illusory

Two EHR experts from Ivy-league institutions (which are typically hyperenthusiast-oriented) doubt cost savings from EHR technology. Wall Str...

A Message for Xerox: Americans Not 'Resistant to Change'; They Are Resistant to Reckless Change That Endangers Them

A press release from Xerox Healthcare Provider Solutions: Jul 31, 2012 Only 26 Percent of Americans Want Electronic Medical Records, Says Xe...

Health IT difficulties and controversial excuses from health IT hyperenthusiasts and extremists

As I observed at my Aug. 15, 2012 post " Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say ...