Posted on 10/07/2014 9:02:07 PM PDT by Abakumov
A Dallas hospital's bizarre bungle of the first U.S. case of Ebola leaves me wondering: Is someone covering up for a crony billionaire Obama donor and her controversy-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company?
Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its online health records system led to potentially deadly miscommunication between nurses and doctors. The facility sent Ebola victim Thomas Duncan home despite showing signs of the disease -- only to admit him with worse symptoms three days later.
Hospital officials, who came forward "in the interest of transparency," initially cited workflow and information-sharing problems for the botch. ...
Mysteriously, after taking special care to get their facts straight before releasing the statement, the hospital backed off a day later. The very specific communications flaw in the medical records software -- which apparently had prevented some staff from accessing Duncan's travel history from Liberia -- suddenly disappeared.
What really happened?
Here's what I can tell you for sure: Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic medical records system -- and the Dallas hospital isn't the only client that has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability failures.
Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health care market.
(Excerpt) Read more at radixnews.com ...
Me too. The idea never sat well in my gut either
Well they do resemble each other wouldn’t you say?
Sorry there aren’t more chicks on tech forums...but it’s rather like expecting them to hang out at auto races or car repair shops...LOL
Epic is one of the best EHR out there. This supposition is bogus.
The moral of the story is that there is no substitute for verbal nurse-to-provider communication.
The VA has its own proprietary EHR. Supposedly a very good one surprisingly.
"Epic and other large firms lobbied aggressively for nearly $30 billion in federal subsidies for their companies under the 2009 Obama stimulus package.
The law penalizes medical providers who fail to comply with the one-size-fits-all mandate. Obama claimed the new rules would cut costs and reduce errors. But health care analysts at the RAND Corporation admitted last year that their cost-savings predictions of $81 billion a year were vastly inflated.
Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated closed-end system. So much so that when Texas Health released its first statement about the software glitch in the Ebloa case, Jack Shaffer, a health care IT guru and top official at KRM Associates, immediately snarked on Twitter: “Guess Epic can’t share data even with itself!” Until recently, health care providers say, the company stubbornly refused to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms.
Now, it charges exorbitant fees to enable the very kind of interoperability the Obama EMR mandate was supposed to ensure."
This is the worst payola regime ever in the history of the country everything they do is politically inspired. It's all designed to extort money from whomever, whenever, wherever. No wonder all zero does is fund raise,its all they have.
Never ends with these bozos,is it a judy or a jimmy?
I’ll bet you two Adam’s apples that it’s a Jimmy.
LOl!! I lose every time i bet!!LOL!
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I read that too. But then I also read this:
Duncan “said that he had been in Africa,” the statement said. “The nurse entered that information in the nursing workflow of the electronic health record.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141003-hospital-reverses-explanation-for-fumbling-ebola-case.ece
and this:
Relatives said Duncan told an ER nurse at Presbyterian that he had just come from Liberia. The hospital said in a prepared statement Thursday that he disclosed having been in Africa. If Duncan did not specify Liberia, it’s unclear whether the hospital asked where in Africa, which has 54 sovereign countries.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20141004-dallas-ebola-case-shows-even-sound-plans-can-fail-spectacularly.ece
So the relatives are saying that he said "Liberia" but the hospital is sticking with the story that he said "Africa".
EPIC failure!
‘Epic’ is a HUGE employer, next town over. The place is a blight on the beautiful rolling hills of Wisconsin; reminds one of The Remmington House where she just keeps BUILDING and nothing matches anything else. Her current ‘theme’ is to make her ‘campus’ look like a farm! The owner of Epic is a piece of work; plenty of (local) stories to tell, about her EPIC wealth and waste and crazy Howard Hughes ways.
But, the town sold their collective soul, and while it’s reaping financial benefits right now - I’m curious as to what the fallout will be.
Post to #73. Epic is in my back yard. I’ll see if any of our local TV stations carry this info on their ‘news’ tonight.
*SNORT*
“How many X chromosomes?”
There is an Austin Powers joke in there somewhere.
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Bring Out Your Dead
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So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Even if it were true, you would think the doctor would have had enough sense to ask a black man with the symptoms Duncan had if he had travelled to Africa recently. I haven’t heard Duncan speak, but he probably had a African accent. Dallas evidently has a large Liberia population and this should have been expected.
Actually...I think it IS a tranny...read about IT recently somewhere
Sorry guys, but this is ignorant tripe... Anyone who’s worked in health care IT can tell you EMR systems are complicated messes... this report, and those believing it are either completely IGNORANT of just how complicated health care IT systems are... or is a flat out moron.
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