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I have posted about the organization EHRevent.org on numerous occasion. I expressed concerns that this organization's representation as an alternative aggregator of health IT difficulty cases, compared to established organizations and resources such as FDA's Medwatch and MAUDE database, was probably not a good idea:

At my Sept. 2010 post "The Ultimate Workaround To Mission Hostile Health IT: Humans (a.k.a.

Scribes)" I had written that:

Over at the HIStalk blog (a blog whose owner remains anonymous, and who uses an ISP that does not reveal information that could be used to identify him, apparently out of fear of retaliation for controversial stories he posts), the following appeared:

I have heard from numerous reliable sources that the military's $4 billion+ EMR known as "Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application" (AHLTA) is to be declared a failure, and replaced.

At the HisTALK blog 5/31/10 update, a site with thousands of readers involved in all aspects of health IT, the following anonymous (at this point) report appeared:

In yet another example of a major health IT project setback, in August I wrote about UCSF's apparent problems with health IT implementation that I learned about through anonymous comments at the HisTALK blog.

At "Lessons Unlearned: Health IT Failure, Act 2" I wrote:

I find it remarkable that this resource-wasting scenario (with possible adverse patient care repercussions) can occur:

Health IT problems and failures seem to be rarely heard about in the public media, yet almost every physician and student I know, including those actively involved in HIT projects, privately tell me of many mishaps, traps and difficulties they encounter frequently.

Some of these problems impact patient care, up to and including some only-by-the-grace-of-god "near misses" - and worse.

They also state they do not want to be quoted publicly for fear of reprisals.

Seen at the HIStalk blog in News of 8/19/09:

I've been somewhat concerned about the HISTalk blog site becoming HIT ad revenue-beholden in recent years, perhaps diluting its critique of HIT industry dysfunction.

However, after seeing these posts today, I am reconsidering that impression.

On why physicians are ignored in HIT decisions:

Seen on the HisTALK blog:

http://histalk2.com/2009/04/16/news-41609/#comment-3996
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