Checkboxes, Ebola, and Embedding the EHR

Citizens' Council for Health Freedom ^ | 10-15-14 | Twila Brase

[TurboZamboni]

Should the EHR be blamed? After a Texas hospital let Liberian Thomas Duncan go home (with Ebola), hospital officials blamed the electronic health record (EHR). A day later, they retracted their statement -- without explanation.

The retraction is only partially correct. EHRs don't send sick adults home with fevers spiking to 103-degrees. People do. But sometimes that's because the system makes good care difficult. In this case, the EHR is at least partially to blame.

EHRs are primarily for data collection. They were built for billing, not for patient care. Ask doctors and nurses what a mess Obama's EHR mandate has made of health care. Peter Pronovost, safety director at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, recently said their hospital was "more dangerous than a hospital that was built 30 years ago" because the EHR "is backed with scores of pieces of equipment that do not communicate," reports Politico Pro (Oct. 4). John Halamka, chair of the Health IT Standards Committee reports, "I get emails saying...that 'EHR has ruined my life.'" (Politico Pro, Oct. 15) Thomas Duncan is not the first to be harmed by the EHR. He won't be the last as clinicians are forced to focus on EHR-imposed checklists and rely on EHR automation. The FDA says at least 6 patients have died because of an EHR

[TurboZamboni]

$10,000 - $20,000 - the cost some EHR vendors charge clinics "for an interface to connect with their community" without which their EHRs cannot talk to other EHRs.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141010/NEWS/310109945

[sr4402]

The CDC website only requires rubber gloves. No facemask, No special boots.

There is a Megan Kelly vs CDC director interview video on this. The CDC is AWOL.

[heylady]

Hospital computer systems can be programed to do a multitude of safety checks. In the lab the computer system flagged delta checks, panic values, and immediately sent stats to the Drs. If the CDC had been on the ball, systems could have been programed to flag patients with fevers from Africa to be checked for Ebola. Hospital workers are human and miss things and sometimes that red flag can jolt you out of your complacency.

[Don Corleone]

This is government health care. Its all electronic and computer driven. Nothing can go wrong....go wrong....go wrong.....go wrong>>>>>

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[Diogenesis]

Note that EHR can be changed
on the spot to coverup (.... fill in here... ).