PP: Negative EMR ROI, Open Systems Needed
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| “There are no standard leaders in medical software as in many other
| industries,” says another. “There are too many variations and vendors. The
| interfaces are proprietary rather than open. It is difficult to spend that
| much money, knowing that the support in the future may be limited and that
| there may eventually be a standardized software out there.”
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191860931
Related:
Experts are calling for product liability for software
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| "Product liability does not apply to software," Gerald Spindler
| of the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen complained.
| "But what if a whole company comes to a standstill due to faulty
| software?" he mused.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86932/from/rss09
Failed NHS project cost $12 billion
http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=700
Use Health Vault, Lose Your Rights
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| Microsoft has announced (NY Times Article) Health Vault. What should have
| followed here is a review of the service by my actually trying it.
|
| [...]
|
| Heard enough? So had I. I'm absolutely going to pass on Health Vault. In
| addition to looking like the Microsoft Passport debacle redux, this is a very
| one-sided contract. They can harm you but you cannot harm them. There is no
| way for any 3rd party to verify that their privacy and security software
| works.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1191521272
GPs threaten to snub NHS database
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| The electronic warehouse, dubbed Spine, is part of the NHS's £12bn
| IT upgrade, which aims to link up 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals
| and give patients access to their personal health and care information.
|
| [...]
|
| More than 60% said they feared the system would be vulnerable to
| hackers and unauthorised access by public officials from outside the
| NHS and social care.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6167924.stm
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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