How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Technology on Unconsented Patients and Clinicians

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How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and Unsafe Technology on Unconsented Patients and Clinicians

Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD on Sunday May 17, 2009 @ 03:43 AM
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Scot Silverstein has a must-read article reacting to the recent Washington Post article on Health IT lobbying: "...A lot of voices were left out of that trade group's lobbying. That trade group's massive conflicts of interest also seem to have blinded it to the longstanding concerns of experts in medical informatics that current approaches to health IT are insufficient and may impair healthcare quality initiatives (let's be frank about what that really means - it means patient harm)..." Digg this article

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Re: How the HIT Lobby is Pushing Experimental and
by S SIlverstein on Sunday May 17, 2009 @ 12:39 PM

I added the following to that passage:

"A lot of voices were left out of that trade group's lobbying, including the open source proponents following the traditions of the VistA effort, as one can learn about in the book "Medical Informatics 20/20" by VA pioneers Goldstein, Groen et al. These traditions are largely alien to the commercial IT sector as evidenced by the mission hostile clinical IT products they put out (see my series on that issue starting here)."

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