Last night I wrote the below reaction to the overwhelming number of reactions to Dave “the e-patients” experience with Google Health and the interaction with his hospital data.
This morning I was shocked to see, that iHealthBeat had the audacity to announce the story as:
Physicians Raise Concerns About Inaccurate Claims Data in PHRs.
This is right out a gotspe. Probably due to the biggest seller show in the world, this story, initiated by a patient, went unnoticed for almost 2 weeks. And now all the big US names claim the story. In the iHealtBeat issue, Dave’s name is not even mentioned!!!!!
A small side note… I mentioned the title of the Health Care Renewal item, An Open Call for Google to Fire the Buffoons. When you go to the item on the ICMCC News Page that links to it, you will notice that you can’t go there anymore. It was replaced by a new article with a much more polite title: “Should Google Seek the Resignations of Those Responsible for This Healthcare IT Debacle?”
This seems to run deeper than I thought…
Easter, in my part of the world this Monday is a quiet day. So I didn’t expect much when I started updating the News Page this evening. Little did I know.
The Boston Globe started a complete snowball on what in my country was the warmest Easter in 25 years.
Today’s harvest was impressive and I’m sure I missed a couple. Everybody had to write about it and the comments went from I told you so to till An Open Call for Google to Fire the Buffoons. I also wrote, 13 days ago. It was the day Dave published his story on the e-patient blog. I called it “shocking revelations“. And in a comment on Dave’s blog I wondered what the EMR itself would look like and saw it as a new argument to push forward the ICMCC Guideline on Record Access to the WHO.
BTW, the comments on Dave’s story have taken a life of their own, it seems. And from the list of comments you can take that the ICMCC News Page was one of the first to mention the story.
Which brings me to my point and I know it was HIMSS, but what in @$#%!!’s name took everybody so long? 13 days before most of you noticed what was going on. And still, I checked all 11 news items I put on the News Page, none mentions “meaningful use“.
Lodewijk Bos
I changed the title due to some feedback indicating I was being too impolite.
Of course, it’s better to be polite and appease those who are responsible for HIT misadventure, than to be impolite and make strong but un-P.C. points about the need for the best engineering of health IT.
Right?