I find this facinating:
deaths-by-medical-mistakes-hit-records
“Many of these reports also showed a source of erroneous data, and the three most commonly reported sources were failure to change a default value, user-entered values being overwritten by the system and failure to completely enter information which caused the system to insert information into blank parameters,” Sparnon said. “There were also nine reports that showed a default value needed to be updated to match current clinical practice.”
“The analysis shows that healthcare providers should consider their use of default values in order sets particularly when considering how users see and enter time information, how they address errors related to situations in which default values have not kept up with changes in clinical practice and consider whether EHR software allows users to easily tell the difference between user-entered data and system-entered data,” added Sparnon.Other serious errors identified by the authority include oral medications given intravenously (20 reports) and wrong site of surgery on patient (46 total reports for the year).”
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-adverse-events-data-cause-alarm
