tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041463137176176234.post6357666976979945619..comments2022-10-23T13:06:38.728-04:00Comments on Family Practice 2.0: An EHR ObsessionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01941316338397643339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041463137176176234.post-75956689630512943112012-09-17T09:24:10.554-04:002012-09-17T09:24:10.554-04:00My organization had to sue this vendor to get an E...My organization had to sue this vendor to get an E&M billing module that even worked. <br /><br /><a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/10/medical-informatics-still-round-peg-in.html" rel="nofollow">http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/10/medical-informatics-still-round-peg-in.html</a><br /><br />Here is a <a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/DUCOM_EMR_Complaint.pdf" rel="nofollow">link to civil complaint in PDF</a>.<br /><br />I observed similar problems with a different vendor...at Yale-New Haven Hospital...in the early 1990s - see <a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/?loc=cases&sloc=Insufficient%20IT%20management" rel="nofollow">here</a> - that resulted in a Justice Dept. investigation, huge fines, and expensive IT scrapping and replacement.<br /><br />The industry does not learn.<br /><br />InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8041463137176176234.post-89306595945942200462012-09-17T09:15:07.097-04:002012-09-17T09:15:07.097-04:00For more on these issues, see "Contemporary I...For more on these issues, see "<a href="http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/" rel="nofollow">Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good IT, Bad IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare Information Technology Difficulties</a>" as well as numerous posts on health IT dating to 2004 on the multi-author <a href="http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Healthcare Renewal</a> blog.InformaticsMDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994321680366572701noreply@blogger.com