We can’t sit here and blame the electronic medical records system for the errors that occurred as medicine is the “human” business and EMRs are the tools we used to have all the patient data available to make better informed decisions with treatment and care.…
Continue ReadingThis is a pretty good article from Wired Magazine and it’s the truth and pretty much a lot of what I say here, so good to see others join in and make the case to try to start up a wake up call for consumers. What you don’t see does hurt your or hurts your ac…
Continue ReadingI can fully understand the efforts of the auditors and recreating what they found with data, but it all comes back once more to context and again we live too heavily in virtual worlds today where flawed data is also on the rise. Sure the auditors are going t…
Continue Reading$360 million is still a good size dollar amount to pay out a lot of bonuses. This was the compromised bill with the House and Senate after the House voted 426-0 to ban the bonuses. You kind of wonder about the entire bonus deal here and maybe paying doctors…
Continue ReadingSo far there’s been enough written to where we have been able to figure out that there was something in the scheduling software that employees figured out how to game with “desired” appointment dates and “actual” appointment dates. Software users will always…
Continue ReadingAs I said before we have turned into a nation of “stat rats” with an over dependence on virtual values which stats are. Sure we need them and it tells us where we need to focus and so on but again I call it “The Grays” to where people can’t tell the differen…
Continue ReadingIf you came here looking for yet another earth shattering video that promises to “change your life”, well this is not it:) We have enough of those out there today and Dan asked me to have an informal chat just to talk about healthcare technologies and get m…
Continue ReadingWe have to stop and take a look at where this comes from and it rolls down hill. I might get my head bit off here but it’s sad but this is the reality of what we have out there. Even the White House is one big “template” today and we hear stats, stats, stat…
Continue ReadingThis is a continuing story of the California Medical Association asking for a delay with starting the United Premium Designation Program and you can read more at the link below where they said no, algorithms have to run no matter what. You may not even know …
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