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Showing posts with label HITECH. Show all posts

Showing posts with label HITECH. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"

This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker: Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry." It is entit...

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Citizen's Council for Health Freedom: "The Truth about Electronic Health Records"

The Citizen's Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission "to protect health...

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Drudge Report, Oct. 10, 2013, 9 AM EST: All that needs to be said about government, computing and healthcare

Per Drudge Report . Oct. 10, 2013, 9 AM EST: From the same people who brought us HITECH, the stimulus bill for rapid rollout of commercial...

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

EMR Defects That Injure and Kill, and Litigation: A Hospital Is Paying a Huge Hourly Rate for This?

At my Oct. 2011 post " A Diary of EHR-Initiated Tragedy " I wrote that: ... I've realized that these past posts, when integ...

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Senator Stephen H. Martin of Virginia: proposed limitations on use, storage, sharing, & processing of electronic medical record data

Here's a politician who certainly seems concerned with the privacy and confidentiality and flawed-analysis downsides of electronic hea...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The HIT Scam

Worth a read - The HIT Scam By Greg Scandlen Notable in the pi ece are these observations: ... even the editors of the Washington...

Thursday, October 18, 2012

HITECH and Experimental Airplanes

This from a commenter, who has been deeply involved in major governmental health IT initiatives in another land, who wishes to remain anonym...

Friday, October 05, 2012

House Ways And Means, and Energy and Commerce, Note EHRs Not What They Were Made Out To Be, Calls For HITECH Moratorium

I have called numerous times for a moratorium on ambitious national health IT programs. See 2008 and 2009 posts here and here for example...

Thursday, September 20, 2012

At Risk in the Computerized Hospital: The HITECH Act as Social Policy Malpractice, and Passivity of Medical Professionals

I am revisiting the issue of HITECH in light of recent reports on health IT drawbacks and/or failure to achieve long-claimed advantages. T...

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Malpractice Attorney Puts ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCBs) at Risk of Litigation?

I am jet-lagged after returning from Sydney, Australia, where I delivered one of the keynote addresses at the Health Informatics Society of ...

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Debt Ceiling deal could endanger health care law - and it would be beneficial if health IT/HITECH were part of the trimmings

A story about the recent political deal to raise the Debt Ceiling entitled " Deal could endanger health care law " appeared in the...

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Medicare/Medicaid Cuts? Spend Money on Patients - Not Computer Experiments

There has recently been much debate about how to save this country from European-style financial ruin. From " GOP 2012 budget proposal...

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