This article provides an excellent and engaging discussion on managing the uncertainties inherent in medical diagnostics and treatment. What are sometimes treated as medical errors are often simply the uncertainties that surround any complex diagnosis. How do we communicate these uncertainties to patients and their families?
Navigating the Uncertainties of Medicine - Harvard Medicine Magazine
The CrowdStrike debacle on July 19 did more than just knock banks and airlines out of service. Many hospital systems that relied on cloud-based EMR systems like EPIC were also affected. Delta ended up canceling more flights in two days than they had in the last two years, and similarly, many hospital systems aren’t quite back to normal even a week later.
Centralized systems have many benefits, but they also amplify single points of failure. If it seems that Challenger is harping on the dangers of centralized systems this year, it’s because we’ve now had two massive disruptions in healthcare, and it’s only July. First, there was United Healthcare’s Change Healthcare ransom attack, and now a bad security patch from a Microsoft vendor.
The fallout from CrowdStrike is still ongoing, but the Change Healthcare hack has pretty much dropped out of sight. A House committee investigated in Congress and is still holding hearings on ‘cybersecurity’.
Massive Software Outage Paralyzes Hospital EMRs, 911, and Systems Globally - Nurse.org
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