“Software glitches that showed faulty displays of health records at Veterans Affairs health centers around the country caused patients to be given incorrect doses of drugs, delayed their treatments, and may have exposed them to other medical errors.
According to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, the glitches began in August and lingered until last month. They were not disclosed by the Veterans Affairs Department even though they sometimes involved prolonged infusions of drugs such as heparin, which in excessive doses can be life-threatening.”
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redOrbit, 14 January 2009
