ONC and Misdirection Regarding Mass Healthcare IT Failure

In my keynote address to the Health Informatics Society of Australia in Sydney recently, I cautioned attendees including those in government to be wary of healthcare IT hyper-enthusiast misdirection and logical fallacy (a.k.a. public relations).In the LA Times story "Patient data outage exposes risks of electronic medical records" on the Cerner EHR outage I wrote of in my post "Massive Health IT Outage: But, Of Course, Patient Safety Was Not Compromised"...

Joint Commission Should Be Named As Defendant If Patients Harmed by EHR "Outages"

At my recent post "Massive Health IT Outage: But, Of Course, Patient Safety Was Not Compromised" over a massive, outrageous Cerner outage to hospitals contracting their clinical IT via an ASP model (that is, 'software as a service'), I observed:... The Joint Commission, for example, likely issued its stamp of approval for the affected hospitals, hospitals who had outsourced their crucial medical records functions to an outside party that sometimes...

Updates and status

Hello Reader!,                       It's been awhile since we've talked. Things here at G-C have been pretty busy, the legal sector at least appears to be in a full recovery (knock on wood). While I haven't had time to write up a full blog post on some of the new things we've found over the...

Dead Links

Just a quick note as I've received a few email alerts about this.  A little while back I began a little revamping of the website, nothing major, but wanted to update the Welcome Brochure and Who is CarbSane pages.  Well, I forgot to save the originals so can't re-instate them while the updates are under construction.  I'll try and get them finished and back up ASAP, but this isn't really high on the priority list right now.  Feel...

Biophysical Electrochemistry and Human Metabolism

Oxidation is a word that gets tossed around a LOT in discussions of nutrition and metabolism.  And for good reason -- it is integral to how our bodies "burn" fuels for energy and how that energy is harnessed to drive all manner of chemical reactions.    I spent my graduate years studying oxidation -- in metals -- but in many ways the principles are the same.  A little while ago...

Wales and the Water by Robert James

Robert James is Chief Executive of Swim Wales and a Board Member of British Swimming.Here he talks through Welsh performances in the Olympic pool and his hopes for the future.Once again, the Olympic swimming has produced one of the toughest competitions of the Games. We have seen a mix of established stars, and some remarkable young talent, pick up medals and it is clear that swimming is at a standard...