Medication reminders can help with forgetfulness, but gamification should support an agreed treatment plan without using guilt, rewards, or streak loss to pressure medical decisions.
VA's Oracle Cerner EHR modernization turned technical defects, hidden queues, outages, training gaps, and weak problem resolution into documented patient-safety risks.
Infusion-pump recalls show how dosing software, alarms, networking, configuration, and interoperability can turn a routine medical device into a software-safety system.
Panama's radiotherapy accident showed how flexible-looking input, undocumented software limits, and missing independent dose checks could combine into lethal treatment errors.