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Well now, isn't that reassuring, as we dump another of our WAR WOUNDED (4 NOW, good news--2 WWII generation is dying off so fast they'll 'be out of the way'. I knew they were going to fuck this up worse. I absolutely knew it! I knew Trump couldn't anymore fix this in 13 months Obama before him. I screamed (and posted) in 2004 when are guys were being BLOWN WITH IEDS IN IRAQ with no commensurate VA funding included in BUSH'S WAR BUDGETS!! Goddamn, I knew it.
Doctors and technicians are QUITTING due to stress and fear they will KILL SOMEONE with an utterly 'failed' computer system.
We took a broken system and just broke it completely’
Trump touted a project to make veterans’ health care seamless but some doctors say it’s a disaster.
By ARTHUR ALLEN
03/08/2018 05:05 AM EST
The military’s ponderous cybersecurity system was largely to blame, but doctors were frustrated contractors hadn’t figured out a way to work around the problems. | AP Photo
President Donald Trump last year hailed a multibillion-dollar initiative to create a seamless digital health system for active duty military and the VA that he said would deliver “faster, better, and far better quality care.”
But the military’s $4.3 billion Cerner medical record system has utterly failed to achieve those goals at the first hospitals that went online. Instead, technical glitches and poor training have caused dangerous errors and reduced the number of patients who can be treated, according to interviews with more than 25 military and VA health IT specialists and doctors, including six who work at the four Pacific Northwest military medical facilities that rolled out the software over the last year.
Four physicians at Naval Station Bremerton, in the Puget Sound, one of the first hospitals to go online, described an atmosphere so stressful that some clinicians quit because they were terrified they would hurt, or even kill patients. Prescription requests came out wrong at the pharmacy. Physician referrals failed to go through to specialists. Physicians were unsure how to do basic things such as request lab reports....
‘We took a broken system and just broke it completely’
Doctors and technicians are QUITTING due to stress and fear they will KILL SOMEONE with an utterly 'failed' computer system.
We took a broken system and just broke it completely’
Trump touted a project to make veterans’ health care seamless but some doctors say it’s a disaster.
By ARTHUR ALLEN
03/08/2018 05:05 AM EST
The military’s ponderous cybersecurity system was largely to blame, but doctors were frustrated contractors hadn’t figured out a way to work around the problems. | AP Photo
President Donald Trump last year hailed a multibillion-dollar initiative to create a seamless digital health system for active duty military and the VA that he said would deliver “faster, better, and far better quality care.”
But the military’s $4.3 billion Cerner medical record system has utterly failed to achieve those goals at the first hospitals that went online. Instead, technical glitches and poor training have caused dangerous errors and reduced the number of patients who can be treated, according to interviews with more than 25 military and VA health IT specialists and doctors, including six who work at the four Pacific Northwest military medical facilities that rolled out the software over the last year.
Four physicians at Naval Station Bremerton, in the Puget Sound, one of the first hospitals to go online, described an atmosphere so stressful that some clinicians quit because they were terrified they would hurt, or even kill patients. Prescription requests came out wrong at the pharmacy. Physician referrals failed to go through to specialists. Physicians were unsure how to do basic things such as request lab reports....
‘We took a broken system and just broke it completely’