Notes from IERC

Some notes from the conference about health care system:

• People pay a lot of attention on the cost, not the system (where the problem is, and we don't even have standard definition of cost).
• Diagnostic errors are 50% more than medication errors. (This surprises me. Does that mean we cannot fully believe doctors?)
• "Cultural belief" is hard to change. (The gap between engineers and MD)
• "Fool with a tool is still a fool."
• Health IT is not a panacea, but many think it is.
• Measure twice, cut once.
• Idea alarm: Making the error visible before it happens.