Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
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Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
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Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#2"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org
"Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday."
Statins are controversially prescribed to people deemed at risk of illnesses such as stroke and heart disease e.g. if they exhibit risk factors such as smoking, or family history of these diseases.
"The software has been used since 2009."
There's some political "flavour" in the last half of the article about time-pressures faced by GPs, targets, guidelines, and the fact that risk-factors should not be used as the sole justification for prescribing statins.
Can't find anything on "TPP".
Non-paywalled versions of the story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/11/statins-glitch-me...
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#3"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday." Statins are controversially prescribed to…
http://www.tpp-uk.com/
They apparently make the god-awful "SystmOne" system that my local GP uses for appointments.
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#4"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday." Statins are controversially prescribed to…
Should I get off statins?
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#5"glitch" is such an awful, handwavey word. Please, describe the cause in a more intelligible way than by using this stupid word.
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#6"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday." Statins are controversially prescribed to…
Should I get off statins?
You can get a coronary calcium scan to see if you actually have arterial plaques.
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#7"glitch" is such an awful, handwavey word. Please, describe the cause in a more intelligible way than by using this stupid word.
From the Reagan administration: "Mistakes were made."
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#8"glitch" is such an awful, handwavey word. Please, describe the cause in a more intelligible way than by using this stupid word.
No Agenda?
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#9"About one in three UK family doctors’ practices use a computer program made by the IT company TPP" instead of online calculators such as www.qrisk.org "Last month the firm told the UK government that there is a problem with the software, and it has been overstating the risk for some people, while understating it for others. The government informed GPs of this on Wednesday." Statins are controversially prescribed to…
http://www.tpp-uk.com/ They apparently make the god-awful "SystmOne" system that my local GP uses for appointments.
There are some pretty crazy stories online about what TPP is like internally.
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-The-Phoe...
I guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a large healthcare software company is horrifyingly dysfunctional.
Re: Computer glitch has led to incorrect advice on statins
#10Big point.
It seems the doctors (As in none????) didn't notice it was making mistakes. All of them, not noticing since 2009.
The glitchy program still was better than the doctors knowledge base.
I'd pick the program anyday. Imagine the failure rate of the 2/3 who don't use the program.