Morning Headlines 11/26/12
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America begins this weekend under a unifying “Patients First” theme.
GP blames computer for man’s death from ulcer
A UK physician blames the poor usability of his practice EMR as the root cause of a patients death after he failed to prescribe the patient a medication to treat a stomach ulcer.
Welsh First Minister Opens Clinithink’s Development Centre
First Minister of Wales Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones opens Clinithink, a Healthcare IT R&D firm based in Bridgend, Wales.
Matching DNA With Medical Records To Crack Disease And Aging
A recently published research project is matching DNA sequencing data with information from Kaiser Permanente EHR data to identify at risk patients before chronic diseases develop.
'Samantha Brown points out that, “Healthcare, like every other industry, gets caught up in the idolatry of the ‘innovators.’”' I…