Joint Commission Sentinel Events alert on Healthcare IT

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 12/12/2008 - 07:57

Finally, finally, finally.

What I and a number of others have been writing about for the past decade - in a contretemps to the prevailing attitude of "irrational exuberance " about health IT, especially under traditional information systems leadership, as a silver bullet to cure healthcare's ills - has appeared from an organization that might actually be listened to.

Listened to, that is, over the siren calls of the IS guys in hospitals, the IT...


 

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