Thanks! -- IV

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:54:13 -0500 "Kantor, Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The article is at
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1044570310661310493,00.html

The author highlights 2 recent disasters already discussed on this list -
Cedars-Sinai CPOE and the Beth Israel-Deaconess network meltdown.

There are a couple of tired canards:
"Medicine is still an art as well as a science, and physicians hesitate to
be driven by anything that challenges their traditional way of practicing,"
says H. Stephen Lieber, president of Chicago-based
and banal statements like this:
"some say technology companies have yet to recognize that automating a
hospital is different than automating a factory floor or manufacturing
logistics operation. A computer that gives doctors an alert about a possible
medical errors can be perceived as a challenge to their autonomy."

More interestingly:
"The American Hospital Association is expected to report that, while costly,
CPOE systems can be implemented in a year or two. In the study -- the first
to detail the price of implementation -- CPOE cost $7.9 million for a
500-bed hospital to implement, and $1.35 million a year to run. Putting CPOE
systems in place succeeded in five of six hospitals studied."

Also David Kibbe of AAFP is quoted and the author writes: "The American Academy of Family Physicians recently voted to go forward with
a plan to develop an affordable electronic medical record system for its
95,000 members."

And there is a mention of the recent Cerner-AMA deal.

Gary

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Gary Kantor, MD
University Hospitals of Cleveland





-----Original Message-----
From: Ignacio Valdes
To: openhealth-list
Sent: 2/7/2003 9:17 AM
Subject: Wall Street Journal article.

Supposedly the Wall Street Journal has an article reporting on the HIMSS

gathering with a title something like: Will the Industry Get Wired? Could someone with access give a summary?
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-- Ignacio Valdes,MD,MS Editor: Linux Medical News
http://www.linuxmednews.com
'Revolutionizing Medical Education and Practice'


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