Friday, November 22, 2019
Future Crisis
How do you know there is going to be a crisis that hasn't yet occurred? When everybody sees a problem but no one is ready to do anything about it. This is the case with electronic health records. For years now, medical information technologists and the government have foreseen problems with how medical records are handled without centralized reporting of glitches and errors. Yet, no one has done anything about it. They have rushed pell-mell into databases without consideration for what could go wrong. And health decisions have erred but not so much that it has arisen to national attention yet. It will soon enough but patients might have to needlessly suffer and die before anything is done. In other words, there is no need for this potential crisis to get out of hand if only the government and health industry were willing to act. They're not -- not yet.
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