Trump touted a project to make veterans' health care seamless but some doctors say it's a disaster.

[DonViejo]

‘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

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.

Doctors complained it could take 10 minutes to get into the system, which then frequently kicked them out. 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, as they had with the previous electronic record system.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/08/veterans-military-health-system-trump-386232

[Zoonart]

1. With the tRump wreaking crew

in charge, these may be features and not bugs.
However, my niece is an IT specialiat at Soc Sec and she says that our Govt. IT sucks across the boards.
Russia is using the agent of Chaos in the WH to exploit those weaknesses.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Imagine that...

Trump pushing something that doesn't work.

[Wounded Bear]

3. And BTW, this is fucking personal...

and I hold every fucking Trumplodyte responsible if I lose my medical care because Trump.