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They actually cancelled the migration because the commercial EMR was getting people killed.
by hlieberman 2y ago
They actually cancelled the migration because the commercial EMR was getting people killed.
- vages 2y agoDo you have any links for this? Tragic that people got killed, but even more so if the same software was at the core. And I sure hope it was cancelled, if that was the case.
- hlieberman 2y agohttps://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/oig-report-vha-finds-multiple-events-patient-harm-oracle-cerner-ehr https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/oig-report-vha-finds-m... There’s a link to the OIG reports themselves. It’s almost certainly not the software itself, but the way it was configured and rolled out. Cerner is the market leader for EHRs, so I highly doubt it’s intrinsically flawed; just so configurable it’s easy to cut yourself on the edges.