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	<title>IQTrainwrecks.com &#187; Health &amp; Welfare IQ Trainwrecks</title>
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		<title>Unhealthy Healthcare data</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/06/07/unhealthy-healthcare-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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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>Gas by-products give a pain in the gut</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/17/gas-byproducts-give-pain-gut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Process IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Lwanga Yonke comes this great story about how the choice of unit of measure for reporting, particularly for regulatory reporting or Corporate Social Responsibility reports can be very important. The natural gas industry’s claim that it is making great strides in reducing the polluted wastewater it discharges to rivers is proving difficult to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculation errors casts doubt on TSA Backscatter safety</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/16/calculation-errors-casts-doubt-on-tsa-backscatter-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is reported in the past week on Wired.com and CNN that the TSA in the United States is to conduct extensive radiation safety tests on their recently introduced backscatter full body scanners (affectionately known as the &#8220;nudie scanner&#8221; in some quarters). An internal review of the previous safety testing which had been done on [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[data quality leading to death]]></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>Smart Grid, Dumb Data</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2011/03/15/smart-grid-dumb-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Welfare IQ Trainwrecks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IQ Trainwrecks and Customer Service]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September 2010 a massive gas explosion ripped through the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, not too far from San Francisco International Airport. The explosion was so powerful it was registered as a magnitude 1.1 earthquake. Subsequent investigations have identified that poor quality data was a contributory factor in the disaster. According to Fresnobee.com [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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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>US Government Health (S)Care.</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/08/28/us-govt-health-scare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/08/28/us-govt-health-scare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Jim Harris at the excellent OCDQBlog.com comes this classic example of a real life Information Quality Trainwreck concerning US Healthcare. Keith Underdown also sent us the link to the story on USAToday&#8217;s site It seems that 1800 US military veterans have recently been sent letters informing them that they have the degenerative neurological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am not a number &#8211; I&#8217;m a human being!</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/02/i-am-not-a-number-im-a-human-being/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/06/02/i-am-not-a-number-im-a-human-being/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daragh O Brien</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Information Quality professionals (and indeed quality management professionals in general) often recite a mantra that good quality begins at the beginning of a process, that it must be designed in, and that defects need to be fixed as close to the start of the information chain as possible. A post today on DataQualityPro.com from Dylan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Health &#8211; Dead on Arrival due to duff data quality?</title>
		<link>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/15/google-health-dead-on-arrival-due-to-duff-data-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iqtrainwrecks.com/2009/04/15/google-health-dead-on-arrival-due-to-duff-data-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that poor quality information has caused some definitely embarassing and potentially risky outcomes in Google&#8217;s new on-line Patient Health Record service. The story has featured (amongst other places) : Here (Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe) Here  (InformationWeek.com&#8217;s Global CIO Blog) &#8216;Patient Zero&#8217; for this story was this blog post by &#8220;e-patient [...]]]></description>
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