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Health IT: Providers unhappy with HIE vendors' sharing capabilities

Wed, 2012-11-07 08:09 — dgreis

Health Information Exchanges (or HIE's) have sprung up in recent years as a mechanism to facilitate the transfer of patient medical records between care providers. They are an extension of the EMR system, an area in which the Federal Government has poured millions of dollars over the past few years. Yet this brand new survey shows the problems that persist with HIE's. Customer satisfaction ratings have declined for 10 out of 11 of the major HIE vendors in the US according to the survey cited by this article.

"Open Source Medical Devices: When code can kill or cure"

Mon, 2012-09-03 09:10 — dgreis
I thought this piece from The Economist did a good job of tying two of our readings together from the last lecture. The article explains that as medical devices have grown more capable, they have also grown more complex. With increasing complexity comes an increased potential for something to go wrong. However, the "resources" these devices manage aren't stuffed animals in a natural history museum--they are biometric data where a software bug in a device that accidentally delivers an overdose of chemotherapy can result in the death of a patient.
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