Failure to provide clinicians useful IT systems: opportunities to leapfrog current technologies.

OBJECTIVE: To discuss why clinical information systems are failing. METHOD: Subjectively analyzing the development of clinical IT systems during the last decades. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The challenge is to anticipate what information clinicians need and then deliver it in a way that is tailored for their unique views. Clinicians need workstations that offer the highest level possible of user-determined flexibility and customization. We envision and outline a so-called point of care work station, automatically scaling to the display, hardware capacity, operating system, applications (local or distributed) the user needs and across diverse health IT systems.

Peripheral corneal infiltrates following intravenous injection of diatrizoate meglumine.

A 66-year-old white man developed bilateral peripheral corneal infiltrates on two separate occasions after intravenous injections of a radiopaque dye containing iodide. To our knowledge this is the first case of drug-induced ocular hypersensitivity reaction associated with the administration of these dyes and manifesting with peripheral corneal infiltrates.