tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post361412161582030599..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: David Pogue: "The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained" and Why IT is so BadRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-72398600447715032602012-01-26T20:54:56.604-05:002012-01-26T20:54:56.604-05:00"there’s a solid business case for shipping h..."there’s a solid business case for shipping half-finished software. “You get the revenue flowing,” one young lady told me. “You don’t want to let your investors down, right? You can always fix the software later.”<br /><br />You can always fix the software later. Wow.<br /><br />That’s right. Use your customers as beta testers. Don’t worry about burning them. Don’t worry about souring them BobbyGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03807934795994985233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-31347755551601973512011-12-24T20:07:15.347-05:002011-12-24T20:07:15.347-05:00Steve Lucas writes:
I have to wonder if certain C...Steve Lucas writes:<br /><br /><i>I have to wonder if certain CEO’s would care if their parents died as the result of an IT failure.</i><br /><br />In this nihilistic culture, maybe their kids; or if not that, maybe if the mistake puts the CEO themself in a wheelchair or worse, they would care.InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-2106567794768726162011-12-24T16:57:58.101-05:002011-12-24T16:57:58.101-05:00I have to wonder if certain CEO’s would care if th...I have to wonder if certain CEO’s would care if their parents died as the result of an IT failure. A doctor recently posted of an elderly woman who called 911 and while very ill was responding to treatment. Arriving, a daughter claimed to be an attorney with a DNR and treatment was stopped, and the woman soon passed away, leaving the children a large inheritance. Celebrating with wine over their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39507939256311574832011-12-22T21:23:06.013-05:002011-12-22T21:23:06.013-05:00They might be able to fix the software defects lat...They might be able to fix the software defects later; They might not be able to bring the dead patients back to life.<br /><br />This strategy may work for business software where the worst that could happen is that a bank loses s feww $ billion...but what is a life worth, especially, the HIT vendor's CEO's parent?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-6472280383309192562011-12-21T13:07:58.337-05:002011-12-21T13:07:58.337-05:00Anonymous wrote:
patients, doctors, and nurses ar...Anonymous wrote:<br /><br /><i>patients, doctors, and nurses are all guinea pigs</i><br /><br />In fact, all three groups will be feeling the pain when mishaps occur. EHR's largely benefit payers and other medical overhead personnel. <br /><br />As I'd written, EHR's are probably the single largest non-consensual medical experiment in history.<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-77190961596611770172011-12-21T13:05:37.337-05:002011-12-21T13:05:37.337-05:00Steve Lucas wrote:
Today millions of people and t...Steve Lucas wrote:<br /><br /><i>Today millions of people and thousands of small business try to do the right thing only to be met by a political, academic, and institutional message of get ahead at any cost.</i><br /><br />Unless that cost is financial ruin and a jail cell, remedies that are sorely needed for fraud and manipulation in healthcare that leads to patient harm. <br /><br /><i>In theInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-59094074958387832732011-12-21T11:52:10.864-05:002011-12-21T11:52:10.864-05:00It should come as no surprise that the young hold ...It should come as no surprise that the young hold no moral compass, as they have not been taught, what is right or wrong by the very institutions we expect the very best to, not only be taught, but to be taught by the very best.<br /><br />In the Dec. 10, 2011 Columbus Dispatch story, OSU’s president gets raise, bonus, by Encarmacion Pyle we learn that despite The Ohio State’s scandals PresidentSteve Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02457363632413213801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-52845052355147828482011-12-21T00:08:14.807-05:002011-12-21T00:08:14.807-05:00Yup, patients, doctors, and nurses are all guinea ...Yup, patients, doctors, and nurses are all guinea pigs in these experiments to fix the HIT devices after it is sold and deployed. <br /><br />The vendors should be defendants in lawsuits when a patient suffers injury when the care was managed with such experimental HIT devices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com