Without reading the article, I suspect that the high rate of reported errors might in part be due to an excellect error tracking and reporting system--i.e. a reporting bias.
Our hospital does not have a decision support system, and it is not using VistA. And yet it might not report as many errors. Kevin --- Nancy Anthracite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The May 23rd issue of the Archives of Internal > Medicine had an article about > the high rates of adverse drug related events noted > in a VA Hospital. The > lack of decision support for selection, dosing and > monitoring was cited as a > deficiency in the EMR that if corrected, might > prevent some of these > problems. The presence of drug interaction checking > was mentioned. > > The abstract is here. > > http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/10/1111 > > It is my understanding that there is some decision > support already present in > VistA but it is less than the ideal according to > this article > > I doubt any record system out there is ideal, but I > can see this as something > that will be cited as a reason not to adopt VistA . > I bring it to your > attention so you will not be surprised by this also > so that we can work > toward adding more decision support to VistA with > the help of the medical > community as it grows. > > I am hoping that the release of VistA Office and the > web site that will come > with it will be a place for the VIstA users to > debate and contribute > specific decision support suggestions as well as > templates, clinical > reminders, etc. I hope that users within the VA > will also be willing to > contribute and that this will lead to improvements > in VistA for everyone's > benefit. > > > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create > apps using Yahoo! > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! > directly into your own > Applications - visit > http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
