Another article about Denmark, alas their implementation of Epic. Quite interesting, and heavy with lessons learned. I visited the Danish National Biobank and Rigshospitalet in 2017 - they are tip-top, well funded, world-class facilities i.e. it’s slightly disconcerting on how this went wrong.
The software system created “indescribable, total chaos” at Danish hospitals.
oooh now on my list to read.
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I am new to Yammer so may be missing something but an’t see a link to the article you refer to. Thanks
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Ignore. Has just popped up in the feed,
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Gosh. What an interesting read…from many perspectives.
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Some great quotes from a brilliant and entertaining article
“U.S. hospital systems and doctors’ offices bought digital record systems primarily to bill more efficiently — the care component came later.”
“When you open the hood in the Epic system, it plays ‘U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A,’” he said.
“Some Danish cynics say eastern Denmark, which includes Copenhagen, would never have picked Systematic simply because it was created in western Denmark, and the two have long competed.”
“Søren Lauesen of Copenhagen’s IT University notes that many big IT projects, including a land registry and police case management software, have been expensive and problematic for Denmark’s public sector, which is thin on the ground and lacks computer expertise.”
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My favorite: “Epic’s medical terms were not tagged for easy translation… ‘C-section’ in the Danish version, referred to an executive suite, not an emergency birth procedure.”
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