Comments on: News 1/22/10

By: Suzie, RN

Suzie, RN — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:25:18 +0000

I have been away on a much needed vacation. The Senator’s letter asks questions that should have been asked for years by the Joint Commission, the FDA, the OHRP, each state’s DOH, and others.

Circulating are reports of death and other adverse events facilitated by the alterations in medical care that these systems cause. It seems as if there is a preconceived notion that just because medical care is guided by computerization that it is safe.

I wonder whether the vendors are going to get together with the hospitals so that their answers are consistent and I wonder if HIMSS and CCHIT are the next lucky recipients of notes from the Senator. Better clean up the hard drives.

By: Fixer

Fixer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:21:57 +0000

Oh and is Ballmer’s presentation available anywhere (anywhere I can reach w/o using Internet Explorer, that is?)

By: Fixer

Fixer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:18:19 +0000

About Grassley and “It’s vague, open-ended stuff that will be hard to interpret”:

“It’s stuff that will be easy to deliberately misinterpret.”

There, fixed that for ya.

However considering Grassley’s track record with other healthcare industries, that might be a risky game to play.

By: rejuvenator

rejuvenator — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:20:03 +0000

“Adkins, whose full time gig is with Cerner (a health care company), lives in Kansas. But the zip code of this Amanda Adkins matches neatly with Cerner, so it’s almost certainly her. The same name appears on several other contributions to Republican candidates on behalf of Cerner, though none of them as large as the $5,000 sack of cash handed to Dennis Moore.”

I found this interesting, especially considering the role of Cerner’s former board member DeParle, a Democrat appointee, now serving as the Health Reform Czar.

Shameless.

By: Mark Moffitt

Mark Moffitt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:48:10 +0000

iPhone as a universal access device for healthcare:

I’ve been preaching this for months on HISTalk. Hats off the Goldman for noting the obvious. Something many in healthcare IT have missed.

Note this comments on a recent article:

“The iphone fantasy written about ….”

http://histalk2.com/2010/01/18/readers-write-11810/#comments