Posted on 10/03/2014 10:43:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Dallas Hospital that sent Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan home said a software flaw, and not human error, caused doctors to miss the diagnosis, NBC News is reporting. The electronic health records (EHR) system that the hospital uses has a separate workflow for physicians and nurses. The travel history of the patient was located in the nursing portion of the workflow within the EHR, but not in the physician's workflow.
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Obamacare’s Chickens......
Patients charts are a thing of the past. All online now.
But you think that handing off a patient with Ebola might just be somehow mentioned between nursing and physicians.
Yeah. The nurse should have caught this right away as soon as he or she asked about Duncan about it. (Although he may have lied as he had before when leaving Liberia.)
That said, the person was probably not a nurse but just a barely literate desk clerk, which is normally what does “triage” in a big city emergency room. Half of them have been hired through welfare-to-work programs.
Sorry, it was human error.
I know I’m not a doctor, but I thought a doctor was supposed to read the whole chart?
Blame game.
Someone explained the tort possibilities with this little ‘mistake’.
Was it a Mac?
(1) Mistakes were made.
(2) The software did it.
(3) The dog ate the paperwork.
(4) It's Bush's fault (or Israel's, or the Tea Party's)
Well, at least there’s nurses under the bus now, to help all the others that found themselves there.
“EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL”® ALERT
The good news is, they are sending in the Obamacare Website team to fix the problem.
And what prevents the doc from asking the question???
Always blame it on somebody/something else. What the h*ll is the doctor there for but to ask questions also and look at the symptoms.
“Republicans oppose immigration reform.”
You’ll hear this excuse at least once before election day.
To find ways to pad the bill to pay for those who don't pay their bills.
Chicago calling
Look - it’s just another “mistake”
All this so they can sue a software vendor. Idiots.
Not only are they incompetent, THEY LIE.
In the words of Jake Blues, “It wasn’t my fault”!
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