After obtaining 11 contracts with major providers — including Epic, Allscripts, Cerner, Meditech and eClinicalWorks — from hospitals and health systems across three states, investigators found 10 contracts contained clauses that could be enacted to prevent disclosure of large portions of information regarding provider use of the technology.
“Vendors say such restrictions target only breaches of intellectual property and are invoked rarely,” the author wrote. “But doctors, researchers and members of Congress contend they stifle important discussions, including disclosures that problems exist. In some cases, they say, the software’s faults can have lethal results, misleading doctors and nurses who rely upon it for critical information in life-or-death situations.”
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