The hazard of software updates to clinical workstations: a natural experiment.
Emergency department (ED) electronic tracking boards provide a snapshot view of patient status and a quick link to other clinical applications, such as a web-based image viewer client to view current and previous radiology images from the picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). We describe a case where an update to Microsoft Internet Explorer severed the link between the ED tracking board and web-based image viewer. The loss of this [...]
Author(s): Landman, Adam B, Takhar, Sukhjit S, Wang, Samuel L, Cardoso, Anabela, Kosowsky, Joshua M, Raja, Ali S, Khorasani, Ramin, Poon, Eric G
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001494