In previous posts on the National Research Council report on HIT, the Joint Commission Sentinel Events Alert, and others on HC Renewal I've alluded to my belief that a root cause of the state of healthcare information technology (high cost, low diffusion, poor usability, poor interoperability, low reliability, questionable benefits, lack of features most helpful to clinicians, etc.) is - to be frank - industry dysfunction .
Poorly led, mismanaged, conflicted, opportunistic, sometimes even unethical vendors, overly...
NPfIT Programme goes "PfffT"
More on the travails of the UK's moribund National Programme for IT in the NHS.It's officially gone "PffffT"...NHS told to abandon delayed IT projectDenis Campbell, health correspondentThe...
A Brief Primer on Health IT Problems
I have noted that numerous policy makers I've spoken with freely admit their knowledge of healthcare IT is zero, or limited to what they've seen and heard in the press (i.e., mainly marketing...
Smoking Gun? Internal FDA memorandum of Feb. 23, 2010...
From the aforementioned Huffington Post Investigative Fund article "FDA, Obama Digital Medical Records Team at Odds over Safety Oversight" and timeline of industry resistance to government...
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