“This is a story of bad data gone wild, wrong info that spreads. It starts with a story from the 1600s, which applies all too aptly to our EMR situation today, in which there are inadequate controls on data quality, and errors that leak can be impossible to contain.
As readers of many healthcare blogs know, David Kibbe M.D. is Senior Advisor for technology to the American Academy of Family Physicians, which is one of the main reasons family doctors have much higher adoption of electronic medical record systems (EMRs) than most physician groups. He’s also chair of ASTM’s Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics. He has street smarts about the realities of adopting EMRs.”
Article
e-Patient Dave, e-Patients.net, 21 April 2009
