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Software glitches at US Veterans organisation investigated
A TOP US POLITICIAN has said that he will investigate a string of software glitches at the US department of Veterans Affairs that put patients lives at risk.
Bob Filner, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, has launched investigation into the software glitches at the VA that put patient safety at risk, dubbing the problems a "dangerous lack of accountability."
He is miffed that the department discovers problems, fixes on the QT and pretends there was nothing to worry about.
The Associated Press said that patients at VA health centers were given incorrect doses of drugs, had essential treatments delayed and may have been exposed to other medical errors due to the glitches that showed faulty versions of their electronic health records. µ
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What is particularly worrisome is the fact that online prescription mistakes, when discovered by the patient, cannot be resolved online. You have to physically appear at the facility and raise hell with clueless semi-literate halfwit clerks who will insist that there is nothing wrong. Nice to know that I was making the world safe for bueaucracy!
follow the money. I wonder if some Proprietary, For-Profit EHR company has just liad a big fat campaign contribution on Filner's desk? (If so, it could be making him much more interested in a VISTA-bashing investigation now than he was when there were mere patients dying-- now it's got campaign money attached. Yummm, Tasty, the American way.)
All of those companies are having orgasms about Obama's upcoming $Billions 'health initiative' pork-fest, so I instantly become suspicious that wheels are being greased. That might NOT be happening, of course, bu it seems a bit strange to go after VA drug prescribing errors just now. The VA has been killing people for years, nothing new at all....