Comments on: Readers Write 3/24/2010

By: HISJunkie

HISJunkie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:35:44 +0000

Deb Kohn brings up some very good issues…and it ain’t jsut Epic.

Now tell me again how spending $20 billion is going to solve this problem?

Oh yes, it’s ‘meaningful use’…the hospital has purchased a ‘certified’ system – but who has the time and money to dig that deep to see if it is really meaningfully used??
Looks like we’ll have to spend another $20 billion on auditors.

By: Beckistan...

Beckistan... — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:18:19 +0000

Yes, quoting Glenn Beck tells us you are enlightened. Is there ANYONE dumber yet more dangerous than that dummy dum dum?

Political preferences aside, why quote a certified lunatic in response to a dumb statement.

By: Anonymoose

Anonymoose — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:43:59 +0000

woman: “Oh yes. The presenter was talking about successful EMR and IT implementations and actually said, ‘The physicians are the ones who have received the education. They are the ones who treat patients. So they must be the focus of our implementation.’”

Man: “You’re kidding.”

Woman: “No! I was so offended I nearly walked out.”

Glenn Beck has a term for these type of people:

Dummy dum dum.

By: Suzy, RN

Suzy, RN — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:32:11 +0000

Well said, Deb—”However, the reason I write this article is that either there is a flaw in Epic’s MyChart, the organizations do not know how to correctly configure MyChart, or there remains an important Epic user training issue.”

Take your pick or select a component of each, you will be right. That this stuff is allowed to be sold to unsuspecting health care providers is despicable.

There was a picture of a sign posted on this blog last week about Medwatch. The author should call the number and report her complaint to the FDA.

Hey, Mr H and Inga, put that picture up again. I can not get back to it.

By: Blah

Blah — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:52:25 +0000

Deborah. Very well done.

This just goes to show, you can spend millions on software. But if it’s poorly implemented (as your providers is) it can make life hard.

In fairness not all the problems you wrote about are bad implementation. Some are training. These issues are well known by anybody who has been working with EPIC for a few years. If they had experienced people helping them implement they would have helped them with this.

The moral of the story is you need good people on your team… still.