The AMA's publication American Medical News recently quoted me following comments from IOM EHR Safety committee member Richard Cook in the Nov. 21, 2011 article "IOM calls for monitoring and probe of health IT hazards" by Kevin O'Reilly:... Not everyone on the panel agreed with delaying FDA regulation. [Per the IOM report on health IT safety released Nov. 10, 2011, see here - ed.] Committee member Richard I. Cook, MD, filed a dissent in the report...
Rabu, 23 November 2011
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Image description: Google News headline "Study warns of chemicals in canned foods"Oh noes! There are chemicals in our food!Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Good luck avoiding chemicals tomorrow as you feast, breathe, and digest. ...
Magical Thinking on Health IT from ModernMedicine.com
Annette M. Boyle, MBA has an article in the journal ModernMedicine.com that exhibits a severe form of fallacious thinking, approaching magical thinking. It's this type of thinking that gets patients injured and killed:Health information technology: Better in long term despite short-term safety risksPublish date: Nov 23, 2011By: Annette M. Boyle, MBAResponding to a new report that says health information technology (HIT) is creating some short-term...
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