Healthcare IT Failure and The Arrogance of the IT Industry

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 12/03/2009 - 09:50

In the Wall Street Journal healthcare blog post "Safety Guru: ‘Health IT Is Harder Than It Looks’ " here , reporter Jacob Goldstein reports on UC San Francisco hospitalist Bob Wachter's commentary that:

... recent experience has confirmed that health IT is harder than it looks … Several major installations of vendor-produced systems have failed, and many safety hazards caused by faulty health IT systems have been reported.

I would differ with Dr....


 

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