New ONC Director Karen De Salvo seems no better than her predecessors - risk, harms and deaths due to health IT apparently OK for now, and all we need is a "Safety Center"

Karen De Salvo has assumed the role of Director of ONC, the office of the National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS ( http://www.healthit.go...

As the Door Turns - The Ongoing Interchange of Leaders Among Large Health Care Corporations, Those who Represent Them, and Government

The revolving door is the two-way conduit between leadership positions in government and industry that helps to enable health care, and mayb...

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...

Five Years Into Compelled National Adoption of Electronic Medical Records, Which Were Advertised As Capable Of Only Good, ONC Issues Safety "Suggestions"

Ten years after creation of the ONC office, and almost five years into compelled national adoption of health IT under HITECH (financial pena...

EHR cut-and-paste problem is only one of the several mechanisms to clone documentation - and facilitate fraud

In my Dec. 10, 2013 post " 44% of hospitals reported to HHS that they can delete the contents of their EHR audit logs whenever they...

An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against Premarket Testing and Validation of Health IT

From http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-advisory-committees-facas/fdasia : The Food and Drug Administration Saf...

Is ONC's definition of "Significant EHR Risk" when body bags start to accumulate on the steps of the Capitol?

In a June 25, 2013 Bloomberg News article " Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems " by technology repor...

Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients .. CEO Cites Defective HHS Paper and Red Herrings As Excuse Why He Knowingly Allows This To Continue

- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on May 30, 2013 - The following appeared in the Marin County Independent Journal about an EHR system...