Top 10 Health Technology Threats to Patient Safety, and Other Links
Top 10 health technology threats to patient safety. Health IT mistakes is No. 5.
Dangerous work. Among all health care workers, nursing staff in long-term care facilities, ICUs, psych units and emergency rooms are most likely to be assaulted.
Even women almost everyone agrees should get a mammogram, don’t. Only 69% of Medicare beneficiaries had a mammogram the current or prior year.
Health IT is no different then a paper based system, has paperwork ever been lost? Of course. There are things that IT will make easier (managing large amounts of data for one), but it is not and will not ever be perfect – NO system can be. One reason why you won’t see data about paperwork errors – it is a lot harder to collect and analyze the data – another IT benefit. It will never be the panacea Obama seems to think it will be, but it has many benefits.
One of the top 10 technology health threats is defibrillator failure. It is pretty catastrophic to discover your defibrillator isn’t working when trying to resuscitate a dying patient.
I was surprised to learn that surgical fires are a risk we need to worry about.
Why are all the health workers being assaulted?
About narcissism: I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that accusing someone else of narcissism is a convenient way of deflecting its prevalence in one’s own character. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I never read studies about how old people are getting more and more narcissistic. It’s always young people that are selfish. Old people are always the most generous group in the world.
Earlier this year I read an article that said assaulting health care workers is a big problem in China. Ninety-six percent of Chinese doctors have experienced a disturbance at work caused by a patient.
http://www.publicaffairsasia.com/publicaffairsasia/AnalysisView.do?id=932
College students getting more narcissistic? You need to keep up to date. Narcissistic personality disorder will not longer be listed in DSM V