On 30/01/2014 9:55 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote: > http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/risks-feared-in-medical-apps-20140129-31le8.html > > Interesting article reviewing some of the subtle risks involved in > apps for medical treatment and records. > I like the one about 'automation bias' which is to believe what the > computer tells you instead of the person sitting in front of you > telling you different.
The Direst quote is: > ''Clinicians tend to believe information in medical records rather > than believe patients,'' she said. Clinicians may be expert in their health specialty but they are not expert in Information Systems. The golden rule in information systems is (or should be, there are too many IT specialists who do not realise this) that all data in an information system has a probability greater than zero of being incorrect. That probability varies according to the nature of the data, but you cannot assess or measure that probability just by looking at the data. From what I have read and know about automated medical records (a subset of eHealth) this single fact receives little or no attention. It is likely to bite someone very seriously in a highly sensitive part of their anatomy. For a clinician it could be their wallet, for a patient it could be far more severe or permanent. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
