Archive for July, 2008
Schoolboy millionaire dreams
In a story that, in this reader’s view says as much about the lack of imagination of modern youth as it does about information quality management, comes news that a teenager in the UK has found himself stg£300 in debt after using an ATM card his bank sent him.
When the young man went to take […]Medication errors affect 1 in 25 in leading Irish Hospital (or does it?)
[UPDATE]: To carry home the challenges of managing and measuring the quality of information at times, Beaumont Hospital have issued the following press statement regarding the issue mentioned below (this statement is copied from the comment below).
STATEMENT BY BEAUMONT HOSPITAL RE OMBUDSMAN’S REPORT
The Office of the Ombudsman issued a report this morning which highlighted […]Tracker mortgage off target
RTE news today reports that AIB Bank (one of the largest banks in Ireland) has admitted an error in applying interest rate changes over a 12 month period to so-called ‘tracker’ mortgages.
This has resulted in customers having underpaid their loans in recent months. The bank is, kindly, offering the affected customers the option of paying the shortfall in one go or spread over the remaining […]The Butterfly Effect
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the concept of the “Butterfly Effect“, that part of Chaos theory that tells us that the small disturbances of the air by a butterfly’s wings in Cleveland can cause a natural disaster on the far side of the world.
A popular myth is that the term ‘bug’ as […]
