While making life-or-death decisions in the emergency department inside PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, several doctors said messages like this would unexpectedly appear on their screens from someone upstairs.
“I see you’re in the RB ED. Rm 20. I’m reviewing admissions.”
Jim McGovern, chief hospital executive for PeaceHealth’s Oregon network, would open patient charts remotely, doctors said, then second-guess their clinical judgment and weigh in on treatments they were delivering…