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Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't
An anonymous reader writes "A man with one clock knows what time it is, goes the old saw, a man with two is never sure. Imagine the confusion, then, experienced by a doctor with dozens. Julian Goldman is an anaesthetist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After beginning to administer blood-thinning medication during an urgent neurological procedure in 2005, Mr Goldman noticed that the EMR had recorded him checking the level of clotting 22 minutes earlier. As a result, four hospitals in the northeast had their medical devices checked, and found that on average they were off by 24 minutes. The easy solution that devices could have used since 1985? NTP."
Oh noes!!! My android phone will make me 15 seconds early to any appointment!!!! I must therefore dump it and become and apple fanboy.
Supplies!
Tinfoil hats, third level, on the right.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
That's exactly what we want you to think, Mr. Luis Howard Alvarez, currently sitting at the second table on the left from the side door at Starbucks on Cullen Street in Kansas City, Missouri.
our society is further behind then I've calculated.
Your calculations are right. The problem is your clock is way off.
Odd, I got here and a guy gave me a nice long sleeve jacket, but there's no tinfoil.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.