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Hacking Healthcare

Errata for Hacking Healthcare

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
ePub Page location 180

"measurable traits — than is several orders of magnitude deeper than it is today." should be "measurable traits — that is several orders of magnitude deeper than it is today."

 Anonymous  Jan 12, 2017 
Mobi Page Location 538

"organizations not use to the level of detail required." should be "organizations not used to the level of detail required."

 Anonymous  Jan 12, 2017 
Mobi Page 6
Bullet point number 5

"EHR typically slow doctors
down, ensuring that they are paid less for the same work. "

is wrong, the correct sentence should be

"EHR typically slow doctors
down, ensuring that they are paid more for the same work. "

Fred Trotter and David Uhlman. Hacking Healthcare (Kindle Locations 323-324).

Ben Floyd  Oct 14, 2019 
PDF Page 11
2nd paragraph

"to make a real difference in peoples lives."
should be
"to make a real difference in peoples' lives."

 Anonymous  Dec 11, 2013 
Printed Page 38
United States

The acronym ERA is used on page 38, but is defined on page 41.

 Matthew P Carlson  Dec 15, 2013 
78
bottom paragraph

"Fitbit is an accelerometer that can track almost any type of movement (an advancement over the pedometer, which only records steps)." -> The Fitbit only records steps (newer models also record distance and elevation gain). Other tracking devices try to distinguish different types of movement (incl e.g. cycling or swimming), with mixed success.

Also, I've never heard anyone in the QS community use the term "quantter", and the claim that Twitter "has become a data layer of choice for real time-health data" seems to be a bit of an overstatement?

Finally, I believe the term "compliance" has fallen out of favor; isn't it now called "adherence"?

 Eric Jain  Jul 19, 2013 
161
3

openEHR is listed with openGALEN as an 'ontology'. openEHR is no such beast, rather a way of modelling medical instance data - a system of medical classes known as archetypes, which can be added together to form templates. i.e. a knowledge orientated framework that includes archetypes and terminologies, but is not in itself an ontology.

 Michael Osborne  Feb 13, 2012 
174
3rd para

The HL7 version 2 message has some fundamental errors. Firstly - OBX-3 component 3 is missing, You can't send a code for a test without the coding system. OBX-3 should read:
1554-5^GLUCOSE^POST 12H CFST:MCNC:PT:SER/PLAS:QN^LN
or, if you were a REAL lab, you would send a display name either as component 2 of the first triplet, or in another triplet like so:
FastGluc^Fasting Glucose^L
Also, still concentrating on the OBX, if the data is not structured numeric, it should have been sent as data type NM and value 182, not datatype SN.
I have concentrated with the problems with just one segment of this example, there are others, so I wouldn't be using these examples
in any discussion I had with my hospital about HL7.
As stated...
" it serves as an excellent framework to discuss variations
of HL7, and you can and should reuse these examples as you try to spread understand-
ing of HL7 in your own organization."

 Michael Osborne  Feb 13, 2012 
Printed Page 181
4th full paragraph

1st sentence has a critical typo

OBX segment is incorrectly described as an Request,while OBR segment is detailed as an Observation. The opposite is true: OBX is the observation/lab result and OBR the request.

Michelle Lenox  Apr 28, 2013 
PDF Page 199
3rd paragraph

This statement isn't right:

"Instead, each instance of the SMART platform presumes that there are other instances and that it needs to smoothly exchange clinical data between those instances."

Please contact us for clarification at rewrite time? (see JM email 6/3/13)

 Rachel Eastwood  Jun 07, 2013 
Printed, Page 201
1st paragraph under The SMART Platform

URL should be smartplatforms.org, not smartplatform.org

 Rachel Eastwood  Jan 04, 2013 
231
2

It is stated that " David entered health-
care in 2001 as CTO for the OpenEHR project."
I will quote the openEHR chief architect on this error:
"The quote below about David Uhlman being CTO of openEHR in 2001 is certainly incorrect - I imagine it is supposed to read 'OpenEMR', going by what I see here in Wikipedia (in any case, openEHR has never had a 'CTO' position). That's a surprisingly bad fault in O'Reilly editing; worse, the author page for David Uhlman on the O'Reilly website repeats the same error"

 Michael Osborne  Feb 13, 2012 
PDF, ePub, Mobi Page 11905
text

typos:

"was an technically an extension " should be "was technically an extension "

" The name of the this " should be " The name of this "

"In any many ways," should be "In many ways,"

"convert to an from" should be "convert to and from"

 Anonymous  Sep 17, 2019