tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post5016296870344987545..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Boulder Community Hospital computer system crash: Either you're in control of your information systems, or they're in control of youRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-6858845794431378702013-03-24T00:45:02.643-04:002013-03-24T00:45:02.643-04:00I work at this hospital and it has been a real sh*...I work at this hospital and it has been a real sh*t show, as I am sure you can imagine. How is it even legal for a hospital to operate under these circumstances? <br /><br />I cannot believe the way the PR people are trying to spin it like patient safety continues to be the priority. I wish I had the cojones to ask the administrators if they would let their loved ones be patients at the hospital Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-34693012038367912242013-03-21T12:54:24.138-04:002013-03-21T12:54:24.138-04:00Trevor3130 said...
Oh, Scot, you are a scaremonge...Trevor3130 said...<br /><br /><i>Oh, Scot, you are a scaremonger. :)</i><br /><br />Hospitals are kind of scary places when the EHR is down and there's little or no source of past medical history, other than memory of patients or family.<br /><br /><i>How does that sound?</i><br /><br />Hunky-dorey as we might say in these parts of Southeastern Pennsylvania.<br /><br />InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-50555760201359588342013-03-21T11:09:26.423-04:002013-03-21T11:09:26.423-04:00I spent 13 years as a IT employee in a hospital (n...I spent 13 years as a IT employee in a hospital (not HIT, luckily.) Every time the EMR would suffer an "unplanned downtime", everything was perfectly fine - just like the Iraqi Information Minister would say.<br /><br />OF COURSE it never hurt patient care. OF COURSE it didn't affect safety. OF COURSE Saddam Hussein is beating the Americans!<br /><br />I hope no one gets hurt from Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-63565180958355522092013-03-20T18:22:47.650-04:002013-03-20T18:22:47.650-04:00Just another example of how the doctors, nurses, a...Just another example of how the doctors, nurses, and patients are guimea pigs in the experiments of the vendors,, by the vendors, and for the vendors, paid for by the taxpayers. A double whammy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-20136154381211836082013-03-20T16:17:05.533-04:002013-03-20T16:17:05.533-04:00Oh, Scot, you are a scaremonger. :)
Please allow m...Oh, Scot, you are a scaremonger. :)<br />Please allow me to offer an alternative scenario.<br />The whole service leapt into action, as if they'd been having regular drills, deploying personnel to "stand" at the known points where failure of information flow is more likely to cause harm to patients. <br />They knew that, as the length of down-time extended, more critical failure Trevor3130https://www.blogger.com/profile/08148555743063226957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-78890356471144821612013-03-20T14:09:11.697-04:002013-03-20T14:09:11.697-04:00I could not help but think of a rant on a medicall...I could not help but think of a rant on a medically oriented blog lamenting the fact that some government employees have not been given new iPhones, but must get a long with a Blackberry. Terrible. <br /><br />The rush to embrace technology, needed or not, is so great that spending unlimited amounts of tax dollars appears to some people to be the only logical option. <br /><br />Oh, this was doneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-73236333842000201402013-03-20T10:40:33.870-04:002013-03-20T10:40:33.870-04:00The hospital community could learn something from ...The hospital community could learn something from dental practices. One never hears of dentists’ computers crashing. In fact, since one doesn’t hear anything at all about the faults of electronic dental records, I think we can assume they are perfect.Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16804181349365200678noreply@blogger.com