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[News] Proprietary Solutions Just Don't Work in Healthcare, They Waste Public Money

Collection of Kaiser EHR Troubles Links

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| Here's a collection of links about Kaiser's problems with its
| electronic medical record.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1163794305

Good solutions require reliability, the ability to customise, open
formats/standard, and vendor independence (spurs competition and thus higher
quality).


Related:

Failed NHS project cost $12 billion 

http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=700


Microsoft in the NHS

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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69


CfH refutes computer failure claims

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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
| 
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/


Head of Kaiser's digital project quits

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| The resignation of J. Clifford Dodd, a senior vice president and
| chief information officer for Kaiser, came four days after another
| Kaiser employee sent a scathing e-mail to most of the company's
| 140,000 employees about his concerns over the high-profile
| technology project, known as HealthConnect.
| 
| [...]
| 
| In an interview, Deal said cost overruns were common and that data
| showed the new software system breaking down so frequently that
| doctors and patients were often left for long periods without
| access to medical records.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Others worry that digital medical records pose risks to patients'
| privacy, pointing to cases like that of the Veterans Administration,
| which lost personal data including medical information on millions
| of veterans last spring.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kaiser8nov08,1,4250636.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://tinyurl.com/yxvc22


our data or your life

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| As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
| is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
| When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
| lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
|
| This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
| open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
| de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
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                        http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709 

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