healthcare information systems

ONC Workgroup Document Misindentification - Just the Type of Com...

Health Care Renewal  Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:41

A provocative title indeed.

The Office of the National Coordinator's Health IT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup recently had a meeting, Jan. 10-11, 2010.

They've posted the testimony and supporting documents here: http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1482&&PageID=17128&mode=2 .

I've copied & pasted these document links directly from the site, at 12:45 PM EST 1/14/2011:


 

Improving Patient Safety In The EU: HIT Should Be Classified As ...

Health Care Renewal  Sat, 06/20/2009 - 09:39

Here is some sense on healthcare IT from the European Union, echoing a number of themes I've written about at Healthcare Renewal and my academic site on HIT difficulties and failures.


 

The Malpractices of the Multitudes: the Mission Hostile HIT User...

Health Care Renewal  Tue, 03/03/2009 - 16:55

This post is part 8 and the finale of a series on the stunningly poor human engineering of production healthcare IT from major vendors, in use today at major medical centers.

These devices provide a decidedly mission hostile user experience, yet with an almost religious fervor are being touted as cybernetic miracles to cure healthcare's ills.

More on the origin of this post's title, penned in 1836, below.