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 Friday, June 18, 2004
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This is an article I found very interesting. I include an image of our site, because I think this is one of the things where we are leading with our concept for tomorrow.

Frustrated by the hospital industry's achingly slow adoption of basic technological safeguards, the Bush administration and Congress are gearing up to put more pressure on doctors and administrators. For perhaps a decade or more, however, millions of patients will continue to endure the high risk of deadly medical mistakes because there's no computer to catch the errors.

Internal Revenue Service. Physicians can spend entire days without touching a keyboard, and nurses routinely track patients' progress through a series of handwritten notes passed from person to person.

"It's this huge, ridiculous game of telephone," said surgeon Dr. Robert Wachter, co-author of a new book exploring why medical errors kill tens of thousands of Americans each year.

More potential disaster looms on the medication front, where the "chicken scratch" on prescription forms often confuses pharmacists, who end up providing the wrong drugs and, in some cases, killing people.

 11:12:49 AM.


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