Christina Thielst, HITExchange
“In November 2009, the topic “Top Ten reasons Why EMR/EHR Implementations are Failing” was raised on the HIMSS LinkedIn discussion group. More than two years later, the group’s technology and healthcare professionals continue debating the causes of such pitfalls and relating their experiences.
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Deccan Herald
“Despite promises by the government to introduce computerisation for maintaining medical records, the situation is dismal. The country does not even have standardisation in common medical terminologies.
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Greg Scandlen, NCPA
“The United Kingdom invested almost $20 billion in an ambitious Health Information Technology (HIT) initiative that has now been scrapped. But in the United States, the people working on our $20 billion program are confident that our investment will not be wasted.
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Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Anyone with the slightest idea of large-scale software development would have been staggered by the surpassing silliness contained in yesterday’s piece in the Medical Observer, in which “ehealth consultant” David More trots out his analysis of the problem which has brought the desktop software side of the PCEHR project to a temporary halt.
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D. Kellus Pruitt, SearchHealthIT
“Years before Newt Gingrich distanced himself from his lobbying for electronic health records (EHRs) on behalf of paying members of his Center for Health Transformation think tank, he penned what would become a popular mantra for other health IT stakeholders as well: “Paper kills.”
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e-Health Insider Acute
“Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system – North Bristol and Oxford.
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“Getting docs engaged and on-board with telehealth may take more than education. It may take cold, hard cash. That’s the object lesson this week from a story about one segment of England’s burgeoning telehealth/remote patient monitoring program.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“The main reason the public doesn’t sign up for PHRs en mass is they don’t really care that much about their health. Yes, concerns about security and privacy and the reluctance of providers to share patient information slow things down, but at its core this is about apathy.
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e-Health-com News
“Das Pilotprojekt E-Medikation war aus unserer Sicht ein einziges Desaster”, resümiert Johannes Steinhart, Vizepräsident der Wiener Ärztekammer in einer Presseerklärung der Ärztekammer für Wien.
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Robert L. Mitchell, Computerworld
“At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s day, Google Health, the personal health record data aggregation service for consumers, will shut down for good.
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Paul Roemer, HealthSystemCIO
“With EHRs in and going in, here is my take on what we may be facing. To keep the conversation as simple as possible, let us focus just on the EHR and — for the purpose of this discussion — set aside the discussion of Meaningful Use, Certification, and interoperability.
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Zina Moukheiber, Forbes
“The government-mandated push to implement electronic health records is supposed to centralize patient data, and reduce human medical errors in the process. However, EHRs can introduce a different set of errors, namely software glitches.
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Gijs Herderscheê, VK.nl
“Het doek is gevallen voor het landelijk Elektronisch Patiëntendossier EPD. Te weinig huisartsen, apotheken en huisartsenposten hebben zich aangemeld voor de gegevensuitwisseling om het systeem in de lucht te houden. Op 1 januari 2012 wordt de stekker uit het systeem getrokken.
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Tony Collins, Campaign4Change
“Last month the Department of Health briefed the Daily Mail on plans to dismantle the National Programme for IT. The result was a front page lead article in the Mail, under the headline:
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Lodewijk Bos, Patiënt en EPD
“Nu.nl schrijft vandaag dat: “De impact van het verwijderen van de medische gegevens van ruim 5,8 miljoen Nederlanders die voor het elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD) zijn verzameld is enorm.”
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Is it possible that the Obama Administration is doing something right in its ambitious health IT program? The U.K. National Health Service’s failed, decade-long effort to implement a nationwide electronic health record system suggests that, in many ways, the U.S. government is taking a wiser approach to encouraging widespread EHR adoption.
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Steve Lohr, The New York Times
“Government press releases tend to be bland, earnest blather. But not one posted on the British Department of Health’s Web site last Thursday. Its headline: “Dismantling the NHS National Programme for IT.”
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Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“We end the week on a note that is semi-whimsical, and thus also at least half-serious.
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Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“Ministers are to axe Labour’s disastrous £12billion NHS computer scheme.
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Daniel Martin, Mail Online
“By coincidence I have been doing the rounds recently asking industry experts why they think large IT projects fail. This is for a feature I am putting together, which will appear on Computer Weekly soon.
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