{"id":283363,"date":"2018-11-05T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283363"},"modified":"2018-11-05T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T08:36:11","slug":"daylight-saving-still-causes-havoc-with-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/283363-daylight-saving-still-causes-havoc-with-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Daylight saving still causes havoc with software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2018\/11\/03\/daylight-saving-time-hospital-electronic-medical-records-emergency-fall-back\/1864579002\/\"><strong>USA Today<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has highlighted how hospital software still can&#8217;t deal with daylight saving time.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Systems, a popular software system used by hospitals, still struggles to deal with this adjustment to the clocks.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mark Friedberg, a senior researcher at RAND, said that this failure is mind-boggling. &#8220;We expect electronics to handle something as simple as a time change,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals spend millions of dollars on their software systems, and the exorbitant cost of changing to different software means that many hospitals can&#8217;t afford to do so.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friedberg, this means that software companies have little incentive to improve their products.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the failure of Epic Systems to cope with daylight saving time, patients are often forced to wait longer for treatment &#8211; with some going home instead of receiving any treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Many hospitals choose to use paper records for this period of the night shift to avoid these flaws in the software.<\/p>\n<p>Daylight saving time ended on 4 November in the US, which saw most Americans turning their clocks back an hour.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/281851-big-tech-companies-that-fell-off-the-radar.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big tech companies that fell off the radar<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by USA Today\u00a0highlights how hospital software still can&#8217;t deal with daylight saving time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":156493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[55215,55217,44728],"class_list":["post-283363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-daylight-saving","tag-epic-software","tag-medical-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283387,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283363\/revisions\/283387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}