Interesting, at least 1 beta user reported this bug, but 10.1.3 was rolled out anyway. Those of us using AC for years are not surprised.
Nor is this unique in the EHR industry. Read about the magnitude of the mess in last week?s Kaiser Health News
investigation, published in Fortune online, dealing with multiple EHRs. My favorite excerpts:
- (the EHR?s) spaghetti code was so buggy that when one glitch got fixed, another would develop
- Poor interface design and poor implementations can lead to errors and sometimes death, and that is just unbelievably bad as well as
completely fixable ...
- One IT ticket, which related to a physician?s notes inexplicably deleting themselves, reportedly took 10 months to resolve
- MedStar?s human-factors center launched a
website and public awareness campaign with the American Medical Association to draw attention to rampant mistakes?they use the letters ?EHR? for ?Errors Happen Regularly?
- Thomas Duncan died after being sent home in 2014 from a Dallas hospital infected with Ebola virus after traveling to Liberia, due to an EHR error
AC developers: there are consequences of software errors that impact lives. Just ask the families of the Boeing 737 Max crash victims.