tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post7948957439913949366..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: IT Malpractice? Yet Another "Glitch" Affecting Thousands of Patients. Of Course, As Always, Patient Care Was "Not Compromised."Roy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-66995427236773575622012-01-03T21:14:42.641-05:002012-01-03T21:14:42.641-05:00Looking at the poll results, only 35% believe the ...Looking at the poll results, only 35% believe the "no one was harmed by the outage" line. <br /><br />It is telling that 65% don't believe the "resulted in no patient harm" refrain; especially so in a population that is highly inclined to support HIT, HIT vendors, and HIT implementing Hospitals.<br /><br />In a group less inclined to support HIT, the believers would Afraidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-84007659523411392022012-01-03T11:27:35.284-05:002012-01-03T11:27:35.284-05:00Live IT or live with IT said...
Note the results ...Live IT or live with IT said...<br /><br /><i>Note the results of the histalk poll of readers to the question:<br />When a hospital says having its clinical systems offline for several hours resulted in no patient harm, do you believe them?</i><br /><br />Interesting, but I would have asked different questions:<br /><br />1. Where would you rather have your child have their major surgery, a InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-90559015807094013702012-01-02T12:10:25.960-05:002012-01-02T12:10:25.960-05:00Note the results of the histalk poll of readers to...Note the results of the histalk poll of readers to the question: <br />When a hospital says having its clinical systems offline for several hours resulted in no patient harm, do you believe them?<br /><br />http://polldaddy.com/poll/5801086/?view=resultsLive IT or live with ITnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-68279731571299847172012-01-02T08:28:35.515-05:002012-01-02T08:28:35.515-05:00Speaking of EMRs, have you explored Mediguard whic...Speaking of EMRs, have you explored <b><a href="http://www.mediguard.org/" rel="nofollow">Mediguard</a></b> which looks like a service to help you keep up with information about your meds, but is, in fact, a stealth recruitment tool of the Quintiles CRO that aiming at access to Electronic Medical Records for clinical trials. See <b><a href="http://www.quintiles.com/search/?q=mediguard" rel="Mickey Nardohttp://1boringoldman.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-3404023857937823272011-12-28T23:03:27.667-05:002011-12-28T23:03:27.667-05:00Another aspect of such a failure that deserves att...Another aspect of such a failure that deserves attention in your post is the loss of data entered in the current episode/admission. It might well be true that the patient historical record has not been lost but it is likely many things if not all data entered for the current admission for the patient has been lost or was unavailable for the period of the failure. Without such data many safety jon patricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-68451461367303204572011-12-28T21:57:41.565-05:002011-12-28T21:57:41.565-05:00Now that UPMC has pushed back the propblem until a...Now that UPMC has pushed back the propblem until after the next election our politicians are off the hook -- no action on UPMC and they take the 'credit' for motivating UPMC to act. Everyone wins except the patients and citizens.<br /><br />Some know, as seen in this most recent set of letters from 12/28:<br /><br />http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11362/1199731-510.stmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-1662500845721483602011-12-28T21:40:41.470-05:002011-12-28T21:40:41.470-05:00I wouldn't be so sure it wasn't a dbmotion...I wouldn't be so sure it wasn't a dbmotion app that locked the database.Elcaronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-36048669730106050712011-12-28T19:43:52.447-05:002011-12-28T19:43:52.447-05:00Yhis is a significant infrastructure failure, desp...Yhis is a significant infrastructure failure, despite what the PR states. How could the PR know that patient care was not affected when the PR did not even know there was a catastrophic failure until the reporter informed her?<br /><br />Just wondering.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-39388896736316369122011-12-28T18:43:42.933-05:002011-12-28T18:43:42.933-05:00I just bumped into an old friend who informed me t...I just bumped into an old friend who informed me that one of his second circle friends died unexpectedly in a UPMC hospital on the day after Christmas. That raises an interesting speculation.<br /><br />There are usually delays in care of hours under those circumstances. Deaths occur but not right away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-83389739575392382652011-12-28T17:27:13.929-05:002011-12-28T17:27:13.929-05:00As the link below shows the use of EMR’s has a num...As the link below shows the use of EMR’s has a number of flaws that are now coming to the fore. Of concern are wrong medication recommendations, over scheduling of appointments, test and treatments, along with wrong coding and the loss of medical notes.<br /><br />http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/12/ehr-note-accurate.html<br /><br />This was driven home to me when after a holiday meal my wife’s Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com