An article in the September 11, 2015 issue of Politico found that almost all the major EHR vendors contained gag clauses that prevented physicians and hospitals from discussing safety concerns and failings of their EHRs. Many of the implemenations of EHRs and “meaningful use” have been rumored to be technological disasters. But don’t expect to… Read More
Becker IT report written by Akanksha Jayanthi August 26, 2016 reports that Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center reported a 76.9 percent drop in adjusted income for the 10 months ended June 30, a downfall it largely attributes to its Epic EHR implementation project.In its agenda book and schedule of events for the University of Texas… Read More
Physicians have long complained that electronic health record systems (EHR) are inefficient, unsafe, and dangerous. This article in Modern Health outlines a lawsuit against Cerner’s EHR and reviews lawsuits which involved faulty EHRs. This article predicts athat This may be the first in a wave of such cases. This case involves a three-hospital system called PinnacleHealth… Read More
I am back to using Dragon dictation software at home as much as I possibly can. Whereas certainly I can type relatively fast I find that Dragon can dramatically improve my typing speed and I think it can recognize my speech better than I can type with typos. I also use speech recognition on my… Read More
There are countless new health related apps for your smartphone coming on the market every month. They can measure your heart rate, help with differential diagnosis and possibly even measure your blood pressure. Researchers at John Hopkins University looked to see how accurate one of the most popular blood pressure measuring apps was. They published… Read More
The HIMSS Board approved the following definition of interoperability on April 5, 2013: In healthcare, interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and use the information that has been exchanged. Data exchange schema and standards should permit data to be shared across clinicians, lab, hospital, pharmacy,… Read More
A February 29, 2016 study in JAMA Pediatrics found that parents discovered a surprising number of physician errors in the care of their children. Although it was a small study involving 383 children who were hospitalized during 2013 and 2014, researchers concluded that approximately one in 10 parents caught a mistake their child’s physicians did… Read More
This is a very good assessment of the Healthcare IT (HIT) systems by fellow Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine grad John Halamka. He hits the nail on the head on many of the problems. I think he is actually pretty generous with his grades as interoperability needs to change significantly so physicians are not mired down by… Read More
This is a good article in the February 29, 2016 issue of Modern Healthcare that talks about the risks of EHRs are accentuated in the emergency department setting. We need to advocated for interoperability so we are not stuck with the systems we have today. We also need to advocate for changes to make the… Read More
