Bug in MetaVision ICU system potentially catastrophic - American bad health IT goes Down Under

I have often written in this blog about healthcare IT defects and the lack of quality control regulation and safety testing.   I have indica...

Sham Peer Review Issue Goes Mainstream. WaPo: VA Physicians Fear Sham Peer Review

The paper's words this time, not mine: From the Washington Post, "VA docs concerned about retaliation", June 12, 2014, http://...

A Nurse's Union, National Nurses United, Takes On Bad Health IT

National Nurses United ( http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/ ), a nurse's union, takes on bad health IT with both satire and seriousnes...

EHR Story for Mother's Day 2014: Even The Formerly Simple Act Of Giving IV Fluids in ICU's Can Kill Babies. But's Let's Be Objective and Happy!

[Note to the humorless:  this post is satirical and sardonic to make a very serious point about the perversity of downplaying/ignoring heal...

Hypocrisy at the FDA: Let's regulate E-cigarettes ... E-medical records, E-medical ordering and related Bad Health IT? They get a gentleman's pass.

Bad health IT is defined at my Medical Informatics academic site ( http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) as follows: Bad Healt...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Bad Health IT: "People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet"

The ultimate "blame the user" excuse for bad health IT comes from, of all places, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Washington Fr...

Medical Malpractice Insurer CRICO Challenges "EMR Complacency" - Or Do They?

In my Feb. 28, 2014 post " Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs " ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/02/patient-sa...

On Hypervigilance Due to Bad Health IT: "Texting While Doctoring: A Patient Safety Hazard"

An Opinion piece " Texting While Doctoring: A Patient Safety Hazard" appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine of 3 December  2...

Today's Bad Health IT Systems: More Dangerous Than Paper?

I believe in 2013 that they are. (Definition of bad health IT is here:  http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) I recent...

On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2

Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...

On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 1

This is the first of a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding EHR's.  Fr...

Wisdom from the Medical Journal of Oz: "Good HIT and bad HIT"

The recognition and partitioning of "good health IT" from "bad health IT" is now a mainstream meme.  I have few commen...

Bad Health IT -Yet Another Health IT 'Glitch' - Potential Image Loss in GE Centricity PACS; ECRI Again Reports Health IT a Top Ten Hospital Risk

From my definition of bad health IT (BHIT) at this link : Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, ...