Health Technology's 'Essential Critic' Warns Of Medical Mistakes

Computer mistakes like the one that produced incorrect prescriptions for thousands of Rhode Island patients are probably far more common and dangerous than the Obama administration wants you to believe, says Drexel University’s Dr. Scot Silverstein.

Flawed software at Lifespan hospital group printed orders for low-dose, short-acting pills when patients should have been taking stronger, time-release ones, the Providence-based system disclosed in 2011. Lifespan says nobody was harmed.

Read the full story: http://bit.ly/12YHHOC

Source: Kaiser Health News (in collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer)