tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post4336076561075850606..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: A "safe" technology? Factors contributing to an increase in duplicate medication order errors after CPOE implementationRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-62129833554002565152011-08-23T08:56:47.732-04:002011-08-23T08:56:47.732-04:00ut Walker concedes that the stimulus-fueled rush t...<i>ut Walker concedes that the stimulus-fueled rush to adopt existing technology could cause other providers to suffer through expensive fixes with potentially harmful consequences for patients. Vendors such as Epic, Walker says, sell relatively rudimentary electronic tools and expect hospitals and doctors to assure accuracy and safety. "This can be very tricky," Walker adds. "A InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-83460213696173306192011-08-22T09:51:29.295-04:002011-08-22T09:51:29.295-04:00From 2009 BusinessWeek article http://www.business...From 2009 BusinessWeek article http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_18/b4129030606214_page_4.htm, straight from Geisinger's chief health information officer:<br />"To resolve its problem, Geisinger spent an additional $2 million on fixes that took 18 months, according to Dr. James M. Walker, the hospital chain's chief health information officer. An internist and former Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-83583620094895022552011-08-21T09:34:13.228-04:002011-08-21T09:34:13.228-04:00Duplicate medication and test orders are reaching ...Duplicate medication and test orders are reaching the patient.<br /><br />This is a dark and dirty secret kept from the ONC (or ONC leaders Brailer, Blumenthal, and that ilk <br />knew and just did/do not care); <br /><br />kept from lawmakers (or they knew but just liked the campaign contributions coming in from the big box HIT vendors and HIM$$); <br /><br />and kept from the POTUS (or he knew,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-23616818638650596422011-08-21T07:56:41.809-04:002011-08-21T07:56:41.809-04:00Dripping with Sarcasm at August 19, 2011 12:27:00 ...Dripping with Sarcasm at August 19, 2011 12:27:00 AM EDT wrote:<br /><br /><i>Just like those bad old S&P folks, I have written to the justice department suggesting they look into your contribution to damaging the health and livlihood of patients by resisting technology.</i><br /><br />Great parody!<br /><br />Listen, do me a favor, next time your write the DOJ about how Healthcare Renewal InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-23106056447296029352011-08-19T21:48:41.122-04:002011-08-19T21:48:41.122-04:00This hospital reports a more than three fold incre...This hospital reports a more than three fold increase in errors of just one type, medication duplication. Known for years, why are they reporting it now?<br /><br />It is not just a "Northeastern US community tertiary care teaching hospital", not a small hospital in a remote town ...<br /><br />This is Geisinger, the model hospital of modern care as repeatedly cited by Obama . It usesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-19769663155589357982011-08-19T19:00:44.101-04:002011-08-19T19:00:44.101-04:00Anonymous at August 19, 2011 5:48:00 AM EDT writes...Anonymous at August 19, 2011 5:48:00 AM EDT writes:<br /><br /><i>Tell me that this is not an illegal experiment. </i><br /><br />"I will <b>MAKE</b> it legal" - Darth Sidious<br /><br />-- SSInformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39517708620144920752011-08-19T08:04:12.477-04:002011-08-19T08:04:12.477-04:00The author from Geisinger partakes in national com...The author from Geisinger partakes in national committees with a stance that HIT is safe and efficacious. The errors reported here have been known for years by everyone who uses these unsafe devices. <br /><br />Why is he publishing now what was known for years? <br /><br />Would Congress have approved spending $ billions on these dangerous devices had they been informed of the facts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-54114845440032113572011-08-19T05:48:43.344-04:002011-08-19T05:48:43.344-04:00NOT a revelation.
This has been known for years ...NOT a revelation. <br /><br />This has been known for years but has been covered up by the vendors, the hospitals (with do not disclose clauses in contracts), HIT vendor trade group HIM$$, and certifier and former HIM$$ subsidiary C$HIT. <br /><br />Tell me that this is not an illegal experiment. <br /><br />Tell me that none of these errors resulted in injury to the guinea pig patient.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-56649667555526102652011-08-19T00:27:06.024-04:002011-08-19T00:27:06.024-04:00Oh Scott, this is just one obviously poorly run ho...Oh Scott, this is just one obviously poorly run hospital at a single point in time. So this is a second cousin to the negative anecdotes you focus on all the time. Our leaders have told us that this technology will make care cheaper and better so even if these findings were true before, I'm sure that fixes have been applied and things are way better now and we are well on our way to the Dripping with Sarcasmnoreply@blogger.com