Public Relations and the Obfuscation of Management Errors - Texas Health Resources Dodges its Ebola Questions

Our last posts about how revenue focused, generically managed US health care (non) system would have difficulty handling the threat of the...

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...

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 ...

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...