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Data Quality, Prescriptions, and Impact

Yet another article on impacts of poor data quality in healthcare. Apparently, medication errors (e.g., incorrecly transcribed prescriptions) kill 7000 people and conservatively incur costs of $3.5 billion per year.

  Posted by David Loshin on July 21, 2006 2:12 PM |

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No surprise. The number of "data incidents" that involve poor quality or security increase every year. Check out this new BI software company that has a novel solution to drive down such errors. (Disclosure, I do marketing for Panoratio.)
http://www.panoratio.com/fileadmin/user_upload/download_files/Software/Healthcare.pdf

Posted by: Kurt F | July 31, 2006 12:13 PM

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