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		<title>Quality Information &#8211; it can be a lottery!</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/12/20/quality-information-it-can-be-a-lottery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a little while since our last post of an IQTrainwreck. That doesn&#8217;t mean that they dont&#8217; still occur. Only this past weekend Irish national broadcaster RTE published inaccurate information about the winning numbers in the Irish National Lottery draw at the end of the broadcast. .We&#8217;d like to show you video footage of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accounting Accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/11/04/accounting-accountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Europe we learn of two stories with similar characteristics that tick all the boxes for classic Information Quality Trainwrecks. &#160; From Germany we hear that due to errors in internal accounting in the recently nationalised Hypo Real Estate, the German National debt was overstated by €55 Billion (US$76 bn approx). This was doubly embarrassing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No room at the Inn</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/29/no-room-at-the-inn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomodation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Twitter we came across this tale of Information Quality fun and games from the South West of Ireland. Macroom is a popular tourist destination in Co. Cork. The local Town Council have invested in a portal website for the town Macroom.ie.&#160; One of the boasts of Macroom is that is just 45 minutes away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It could be YOU (and 44,999 others)</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/08/03/it-could-be-you-and-44999-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Irish National Lottery had an embarrassment last week when their Bank Holiday promotion draw went awry. As part of a special draw for the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Lottery were offering a prize of a Jaguar XK convertible as an additional prize to the person who won the jackpot. Unfortunately, due to apparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Healthcare data</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a change (?) it is nice (?) to see stories about healthcare IQ Trainwrecks that don&#8217;t necessarily involve loss of life, injury, tears, or trauma. Today&#8217;s Irish Examiner newspaper carries a story of the financial impacts of poor quality data in healthcare administration. At a time when the budgets for delivery of healthcare in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Arm of the (f)Law</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/the-wrong-arm-of-the-flaw/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/the-wrong-arm-of-the-flaw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Steve Tuck and Privacy International comes this great story from the UK of how a simple error, if left uncorrected, can result in significantly unwelcome outcomes. It is also a cautionary tale for those of us who might think that flagging a record as being &#8220;incorrect&#8221; or inaccurate might solve the problem&#8230; such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 year old orphaned by a fat finger key stroke error</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/8-year-old-orphaned-by-a-fat-finger-key-stroke-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/8-year-old-orphaned-by-a-fat-finger-key-stroke-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data protection]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Daragh O Brien has written and presented in the past for the IAIDQ on the topic of how the legal system and information quality management often look at the same issues from a different perspective, ultimately to identify how to address the issues of the cost and risk of poor quality. This was brought home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So exactly HOW pregnant is he?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/12/10/so-exactly-how-pregnant-is-he/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/12/10/so-exactly-how-pregnant-is-he/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Embarrassing Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the #dataquality correspondents on Twitter comes this great story of a classic IQ Trainwreck. Hilton Plettell is pregnant and is expected to deliver in 7 months, according to the NHS. They&#8217;ve invited him to a scan to see his bundle of joy. Yes. We did say HIM and HIS, because Hilton is a 50 year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organ Donor Records Mix-up</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/organ-doner-records-mix-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/organ-doner-records-mix-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikhaila</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health informatics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Times reported in April 2010 that NHS Blood and Transplant, who run the UK organ donor register, last year wrote to new donors with their consent details. After respondents complained the information was incorrect it was discovered 800,000 individuals’ details had been recorded incorrectly. 45 of those affected have since died and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero Entertainment in Norway</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/zero-entertainment-in-norway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2010/10/20/zero-entertainment-in-norway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story comes from our Norwegian Correspondent, Mr. Arnt-Erik Hansen (former IAIDQ Director of Member Services). We let him tell his tale in his own words, with only minor editing&#8230;. ++++ Norway is the only country in the world, as far as I know, with full transparency with regards to personal income, wealth and state [...]]]></description>
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