Howard William Perlis, heres the Bloomberg version about the EHR: Wendell Watson, a spokesman for the hospital, said the hospital had wrongly designed its digital record system so not all of a nurse’s notes are visible to doctors. While Watson didn’t respond to questions about why that happened, he said the software, made by Epic Systems Corp., has been reconfigured to bring patients’ travel history to the physician’s screen. It has also been modified “to specifically reference Ebola-endemic regions in Africa,” the hospital said in a statement yesterday. Yeah, what I said. BUT . . . Further Explanation Watson, in an e-mail sent late yesterday, said the hospital wanted to clarify its explanation about Duncan’s initial release from the emergency room. “As a standard part of the nursing process, the patient’s travel history was documented and available to the full care team in the electronic health record (EHR), including within the physician’s workflow,” Watson wrote in the e-mail. “There was no flaw in the EHR in the way the physician and nursing portions interacted related to this event.” Watson and other hospital officials declined to respond to requests to explain the subsequent statement. Oh ho. Theyve figured out how many billions in liability that first statement exposed them to, so they laid the ER doctor on the altar. Good to see their PR people are as incompetent as their ER. mobile.bloomberg/news/2014-10-03/electronic-record-gap-allowed-ebola-man-to-leave-hospital.html
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 05:08:59 +0000