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https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-episode-of-dont-worry-your.html Health Care Renewal: Another Episode of "But Don't Worry, Your Records are Safe..." Oops! NHS trust sends data CD to landfill By Wesley Johnson Friday, 16 September 2011 The personal information of 1.6 million people has b... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/final-conflict-of-interest-rules-at.html Health Care Renewal: Final Conflict of Interest Rules at NIH, but Dissent Continues Bad news keeps coming in from the Gulf Coast. Yet staring straight ahead and feeling bad about it in Rhode Island won't help anybody out. C... conflict of interest rules health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/08/shareholders-take-notice-that-patients.html Health Care Renewal: Shareholders Take Notice That Patients Used As Unconsented Guinea Pigs,... At my Jan. 2009 post " Waste Feared in Digitizing Patient Records: Wall Street Journal " and others I have written about the illegitimacy of... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/health-care-corporate-disinformation.html?showComment=1296703976604 Health Care Renewal: Health Care Corporate Disinformation Campaigns: Wendell Potter's "Deadly Spin" I wish I had gotten to this earlier.... In 2009, Wendell Potter, a mild-mannered former chief of public relations for for-profit health car... health care renewal wendell potter corporate disinformation https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/01/ Health Care Renewal: January 2006 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal january https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/11/kaiser-permanentes-new-emr-alternative.html Health Care Renewal: Kaiser Permanente's New EMR - An Alternative View MedInformaticsMD has posted recently about allegations of major troubles with Kaiser Permanente's new electronic medical record, and the man... health care renewal kaiser permanente https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/06/ousted-ceo-of-columbiahca-now-runs-in.html Health Care Renewal: Ousted CEO of Columbia/HCA Now Runs In-Store Clinic Chain One of the latest trends in US health care appears to be, for want of a better name, "in-store clinic chains." We had discussed this trend h... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-not-taught-about-leadership-in.html?showComment=1226629920000 Health Care Renewal: What is Not Taught About "Leadership in Healthcare" One of our scouts forwarded me a link to the curriculum from an MBA program from the distinguished Yale School of Management designed espec... health care renewal what is about leadership https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/01/new-problems-for-guidant-and-boston.html Health Care Renewal: New Problems for Guidant and Boston Scientific health care renewal problems guidant boston scientific https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/01/ Health Care Renewal: January 2011 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal january https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/03/does-pharma-want-its-researchers-to.html Health Care Renewal: Does Pharma Want its Researchers to Believe They Are Next to God? In " Drug Maker Told Studies Would Aid It, Papers Say " (New York Times, Mar. 19, 2009), the Times discusses the case of psychiatrist Dr. Jo... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/09/informatics-director-of-nothing.html Health Care Renewal: Informatics "Director of Nothing" position offers continue unabated This post reflects what I believe is a continuing problem regarding leveling of medical informatics roles within healthcare organizations fo... health care renewal of nothing informatics director https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/11/ Health Care Renewal: November 2010 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal november https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-drug-reps-really-care-about.html?showComment=1206987480000 Health Care Renewal: What Drug Reps Really Care About In the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Dr Daniel Carlat summarized a talk on tactics used by drug representatives by former Eli Lilly rep Shahram ... health care renewal drug reps really https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/electronic-medical-records-two-weeks.html?showComment=1298908409942 Health Care Renewal: Electronic Medical Records: Two Weeks, Two Reams Electronic medical records in the pioneering years were about helping clinicians better understand a patient. They were about easing the cl... health care renewal electronic medical records two weeks https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/11/ Health Care Renewal: November 2012 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal november https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/02/after-manufacturing-problems-genzyme.html Health Care Renewal: After Manufacturing Problems, Genzyme CEO's Golden Parachute Means "Failure =... In late 2009, I posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to pat... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/12/boston-scientific-again-settles-this.html Health Care Renewal: Boston Scientific (Again) Settles - This Time, Charges of Kickbacks Disguised... One would think that the stories about bad behavior by health care organizations would quiet down just before Christmas, but no... As repo... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-toward-meaningful-usability-five-keys.html Health Care Renewal: Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician- Centric CPOE... In a 2011 "White Paper" from a company PatientKeeper entitled " Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician-Centric CPOE "... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-best-governance-for-medicine-is-in.html Health Care Renewal: The Best Governance for Medicines ... is in Thailand The Best Health Care System in the World? Here in the US, a lot of people have been convinced that we have the best health care system in... health care renewal the best is in https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-linked-parallel-declines-of.html Health Care Renewal: What Linked the Parallel Declines of Citigroup and the Harvard University... Increasing efforts to understand the global financial collapse, or whatever history will end up calling it, may shed light on what has gone ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/07/unitedhealth-settles.html?showComment=1215580560000 Health Care Renewal: UnitedHealth Settles We had posted often (see these posts here , here , and here from 2006 with links backward) about the hugely lavish compensation afforded to... health care renewal unitedhealth settles https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/10/last-weeks-scandals.html Health Care Renewal: Last Week's Scandals The march of settlements and other unfavorable legal results for health care organizations continued last week, in alphabetical order CVS ... health care renewal last week scandals https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/07/10-years-later-eerie-echo-of-fall-of.html?showComment=1217617500000 Health Care Renewal: 10 Years Later, An Eerie Echo of the Fall of AHERF This week, as reported by Steve Twedt in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , accounting irregularities were found at the West Penn Allegheny Healt... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/07/ethics-turnaround-sort-of-by-nih.html Health Care Renewal: ETHICS TURNAROUND (sort of) by NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR ETHICS TURNAROUND (sort of) by NIH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR What a difference a month makes. When I went on vacation in June the Director of NIM... health care renewal sort of ethics turnaround https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/05/ Health Care Renewal: May 2005 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal may https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/10/yet-another-reason-for-electronic.html Health Care Renewal: Yet another reason for the Electronic Medical Record... ... To at the very least put an end to absurd, infuriating "I say he did, you say he didn't" arguments in court -- that incidentally reflect... health care renewal yet another https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/01/hrdi-settlement-disbands.html Health Care Renewal: HRDI Settlement Disbands "Anticompetitive, Secret Society" Last summer we posted about the Healthcare Research and Development Institute (HRDI). HRDI is a for-profit owned by a number of the top exe... health care renewal hrdi settlement secret society https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/01/hospitals-spending-millions-to-raise.html Health Care Renewal: Hospitals spending millions to raise profiles - instead of on improving... Perhaps the millions spent to "raise profiles" might be better spent in "raising quality" (which might obviate the need to artificially "rai... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/texas-sues-merck-for-defrauding.html Health Care Renewal: Texas Sues Merck for Defrauding Medicaid The Associated Press reported that the state of Texas is suing Merck for Medicaid fraud involving its marketing of Vioxx to Medicaid patien... health care renewal texas sues merck defrauding https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/01/does-ceo-of-google-use-google.html Health Care Renewal: Does the CEO of Google Use Google? - And: Platform, Platform, Who's Got The... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/05/another-day-another-ehr-outage-medstar.html?showComment=1430953700049 Health Care Renewal: Another day, another EHR outage: MEDSTAR EHR goes dark for days At my March 2, 2015 post " Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash " ( http:/... health care renewal another day https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/04/more-evidence-of-ghostwriting.html Health Care Renewal: More evidence of ghostwriting Yet more on ghost writing of scientific papers as posted here and here : Quoting a New York Times article, Evidence in Vioxx Suits Shows ... health care renewal more evidence ghostwriting https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-fallacy-of-perfect-health-care.html Health Care Renewal: How the Fallacy of the "Perfect" Health Care Market Undermined Professionalism... We began this blog way back in 2005 to discuss threats to physicians' values, especially from concentration and abuse of power. Personal ex... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-give-course-on-corruption-in.html Health Care Renewal: How to Give a Course on Corruption in the Health Sector Just out from the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center is a brief paper on " Approaches to teaching and learning about corruption in the heal... health care renewal how to give https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/03/economists-advice-on-healthcare.html Health Care Renewal: An economist's advice on healthcare information technology In a Feb. 28, 2009 New York Times article entitled " How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality ", we get advice from the same profess... health care renewal healthcare information economist https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/07/are-ill-informed-leaders-cause-of-drug.html Health Care Renewal: Are Ill-Informed Leaders the Cause of Drug Manufacturing Mishaps? Fundamental Corporate Failures In the last few years, there seems to have been an epidemic of once revered companies suddenly unable to pe... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/05/updates-on-commercially-sponsored-drug_19.html Health Care Renewal: Updates on Commercially Sponsored Drug Research: "A Morally Flimsy Foundation... There are new developments in several stories we have been following about commercially sponsored drug research done on human subjects. St... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2018/02/fish-gotta-fly-birds-gotta-swim-more-on.html Health Care Renewal: Fish gotta fly, birds gotta swim: more on the opiate crisis At so many levels, the current opiate crisis, and the way in which various actors are seeking to cope with it, proves rich in intriguing det... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/ Health Care Renewal: July 2005 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal july https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-marketing-mixes-into-medical-school.html Health Care Renewal: How Marketing Mixes Into Medical School Curricula - an Example from Canada Misery loves company, so here is an interesting case reported by the Canadian Press, via CTV News , about how students in a pain management ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/03/thanks-to-wonders-of-ehr-this-premature.html Health Care Renewal: Thanks to the wonders of EHR, this premature baby went to the grave,... Thanks to the distractions of EHR and the wonders of EHR auto entry, cut and paste etc., this premature baby went to the grave, prematurely:... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-haunting-tale.html Health Care Renewal: Another Haunting Tale Halloween is more than two months away, but the ghost stories just keep on coming. The latest version was reported by the Associated Press ... health care renewal another haunting tale https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/ Health Care Renewal: September 2005 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal september https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/08/wooden-headed-reimbursement-continues.html Health Care Renewal: Wooden-Headed Reimbursement Continues, and Medical Device Companies Celebrate A while back we summarized the perverse incentives caused by Medicare's current wooden-headed reimbursement schemes, and how they drive up t... health care renewal medical device companies https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/01/at-university-of-miami-faculty-without.html Health Care Renewal: At University of Miami, Faculty Without Confidence in their Hired Managers... The University of Miami has provided some vivid examples of the contrast between the power and privileges of the leaders of large health car... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/healthsouth-box-score-so-far.html Health Care Renewal: HealthSouth Box Score So Far Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth, was recently acquited. However, a recent Associated Press report reminds us that many top Healt... health care renewal box score healthsouth far https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/07/pharmaceutical-industry-mobilised-army.html Health Care Renewal: Pharmaceutical Industry "'Mobilised' an Army of Patient Groups to Lobby... I had guessed that this sort of thing was going on all the time, but being kept very well hidden. Now we have some more evidence. An art... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/06/ Health Care Renewal: June 2006 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal june https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/02/logical-fallacies-in-defense-of.html Health Care Renewal: Logical Fallacies in Defense of Conflicts of Interest Employed by a Leader of... We have repeatedly discussed the adverse effects of conflicts of interest on health care. Recently, I argued that the most pernicious are ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/03/dr-richard-cook-on-health-it-sectors.html Health Care Renewal: Dr. Richard Cook on the Health IT Sector's Ills This explanation of the health IT sector's ills comes from Dr. Richard Cook , a physician, educator, researcher, and patient safety expert f... health care renewal dr richard https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/minuteclinics.html Health Care Renewal: MinuteClinics One of the latest ideas in the brave new world of the health care biz is "MinuteClinics." As described here , MinuteClinics operate rapid-se... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/01/california-bad-dreamin-more-troubles.html Health Care Renewal: California [Bad] Dreamin' - More Troubles at UCI There is a continuing drip, drip of unfavorable stories about management problems at the University of California - Irvine medical center, a... health care renewal california bad dreamin troubles https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/01/university-president-on-commission.html Health Care Renewal: A University President on Commission The Miami Herald reported on the latest thing in executive compensation for leaders of academia (and academic medicine): Florida State Uni... health care renewal university president commission https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/12/it-seems-common-wisdom-in-u.html Health Care Renewal: Finnish EHR's Clumsy, Mission Hostile, Consume Doctors' Precious Time It seems common wisdom in the U.S. that the "Europeans are way ahead of us" in computerized medicine. Perhaps the common wisdom is not so wi... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/04/informaticsmd-quoted-in-washington-post.html Health Care Renewal: Insurers' diversification creating monopoly power and conflict of interest -... I am quoted in a Washington Post article today on potential conflicts of interest when medical payers/insurers acquire the firms that hospit... health care renewal power and conflict https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/05/mismanaged-initiation-of-kaiser.html Health Care Renewal: The Mismanaged Initiation of the Kaiser Permanente Kidney Transplant Program:... The Los Angeles Times published a series of articles (1-3) resulting from an investigation of how Kaiser Permanente mismanaged the initiatio... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2017/07/ Health Care Renewal: July 2017 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal july https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/09/were-elephant-men-given-tgn-1412.html Health Care Renewal: Were the "Elephant Men" Given TGN 1412 Infusions Too Fast? We have posted frequently, here , here , here , and here , about the disastrous trial, now colloquially known as the "elephant men" trial a... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/06/three-strikes-youre-out-ivy-league.html Health Care Renewal: Three Strikes, You're Out - Ivy league University Tries Again... Einstein once wrote: " Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Santayana and/or Churchill wrote... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/11/disclosure-of-salesman-glaxosmithkline.html?showComment=1231093320000 Health Care Renewal: Disclosure of a Salesman - GlaxoSmithKline, Dr Frederick Goodwin, and "The... [See late addenda at the end of the post.] Earlier this year, an article by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, "Stealth Marketers: Are Doct... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/memorial-hermann-uses-rockets-for.html Health Care Renewal: Memorial Hermann Uses Rockets for Marketing The Houston Chronicle reported how Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has reached a confidential agreement with the Houston Rockets, Comets... health care renewal memorial hermann uses rockets marketing https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-questions-no-answers-about-case-of.html Health Care Renewal: More Questions, No Answers About the Case of the Deadly Heparin - Some... In 2008, we started posting on how the "active pharmaceutical ingredient" of heparin made in China under apparently primitive conditions, co... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/11/was-is-worst-biotech-ceo-worth.html Health Care Renewal: What is the "Worst Biotech CEO" Worth? Recently, we posted about misadventures of the leadership of biotechnology giant Genzyme. Although the company has long priced its drug Ce... health care renewal what is the worst biotech ceo https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/01/university-medical-center-of-southern.html Health Care Renewal: University Medical Center of Southern Nevada's CEO Fired After Undisclosed... Amidst all the stories about pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device companies, do not forget that management problems also afflict hospit... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/08/pfizers-pforeign-pfiasco.html Health Care Renewal: Pfizer's Pforeign Pfiasco Quelle surprise. Giant international pharmaceutical company Pfizer managed to go for nearly 10 months without announcing a major legal sett... health care renewal pfizer https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/10/pharma-not-so-nice_02.html?showComment=1159879860000 Health Care Renewal: Pharma: Not So NICE The Guardian (UK) just reported that "multinational drug companies have been lobbying ministers in an attempt to subvert the independent app... health care renewal pharma nice https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/05/merck-kgaa-settles-again.html Health Care Renewal: Merck KGaA Settles, Again They just keep marching along, legal settlements, that is. The latest entry in the parade is Merck KGaA (of Switzerland, not to be confused... health care renewal merck kgaa settles https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/10/trying-to-reform-graduate-medical.html Health Care Renewal: Trying to Reform Graduate Medical Education, Again Earlier this month in JAMA, Ludmerer and Johns published an important article on graduate medical education [Ludmerer KM, Johns MME. Refor... health care renewal graduate medical education trying reform https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/09/ Health Care Renewal: September 2016 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal september https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/05/jama-lays-egg.html Health Care Renewal: JAMA LAYS AN EGG JAMA LAYS AN EGG Three months ago I took JAMA to task over a Viewpoint opinion piece about conflict of interest. The authors proposed... health care renewal jama lays egg https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/05/government-backs-down-on-some_27.html Health Care Renewal: Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records EHR utopian dreams have taken some pronounced hits in recent years. In recent months, the hyper-enthusiasts and their government allies h... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/01/ Health Care Renewal: January 2015 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal january https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-plague-of-bureaucrats-now-10-per.html Health Care Renewal: A Plague of Bureaucrats - Now 10 Per Physician in US Health Care There seems to be a reasonable argument that the US health care system is more dependent on the private sector, and in particular the for-pr... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/09/no-skin-in-game-private-health-system.html Health Care Renewal: No Skin in the Game - A Private Health System for the Very Rich We have noted occasional hints that the very rich may have a separate health care system which may shield them from the vicissitudes of our... skin in the game health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2018/02/disastrously-conceived-managed-and.html Health Care Renewal: Disastrously conceived, managed, and implemented U.S. Coast Guard EHR leaves... Sometimes, the typical EHR mismanagement debacles that I have been writing about since at least 1999 leave patients safer . This is one suc... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-on-perversity-in-hit-world.html?showComment=1262710077881 Health Care Renewal: More on Perversity in the Healthcare IT World: Is Meditech Employing... (Note to readers: also see my Jan. 7, 2010 followup post " Socky the Meditech Sockpuppet on Vacation? ") At " Are Dissmissive Industry ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/07/avandia-spin-cycle-continues-even-after.html?showComment=1279552457068 Health Care Renewal: The Avandia Spin Cycle Continues Even After the FDA Safety Hearings We have posted multiple times about Avandia (rosiglitazone), GlaxoSmithKline's star-crossed glucose-lowering drug. While Avandia has receiv... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/09/who-really-makes-brand-name.html Health Care Renewal: Who Really Makes Brand-Name Pharmaceuticals? A striking illustration of the hazards to patients' and the public's health from health care organizational leaders using fashionable manage... health care renewal brand name really makes pharmaceuticals https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/04/immersion-day-to-expose-hospital-board.html Health Care Renewal: "Immersion Day" to Expose Hospital Board Members to Real Health Care for a Day... Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Bock and Paulus describing an innovative program at Mission Health i... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/03/ Health Care Renewal: March 2011 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal march https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/09/does-organized-medicine-need-to-man-up.html Health Care Renewal: Does organized medicine need to "man up" on healthcare information technology... After reading a number of articles on healthcare IT problems over the past few years authored by leaders of organized medicine, please excus... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/03/cancer-screening-ct-scans-and-patent.html?showComment=1205245740000 Health Care Renewal: Cancer Screening, CT Scans, and Patent Applications We are getting to this story a bit late, but perhaps can provide some new insight. In 2006, an article that supported the value of CT scans ... health care renewal cancer screening ct scans patent applications https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/10/ Health Care Renewal: October 2013 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal october https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/10/marketers-systemic-influence-over.html Health Care Renewal: Marketers' Systemic Influence over Ostensibly Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed... On the heels of our discussion of how one pharmaceutical company employed a "publications strategy" to commission and control randomized co... health care renewal marketers systemic https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/01/honest-physician-survey-on-ehrs.html Health Care Renewal: An Honest Physician Survey on EHR's I often believe surveys of physicians about EHR's do not present the results candidly, but rather are selective in what is reported - and wh... health care renewal physician survey honest ehr https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/05/no-more-free-viagra-for-sex-offenders.html Health Care Renewal: No More Free Viagra for Sex Offenders There are so many stories popping up now that I am having a hard time keeping up, but here goes... Unintended flaws of bureaucratic decision... health care renewal no more for sex free viagra https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-syndrome-of-useless-information.html Health Care Renewal: "The Syndrome of Useless Information" Revisited At a time when the press seems to be starting to "get it" regarding health IT myths, and expecting significant pushback, I thought it useful... health care renewal useless information syndrome revisited https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/medicare-overpaid-for-chiropractic.html Health Care Renewal: Medicare Overpaid for Chiropractic The Washington Post reported that the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services concluded that Medicare overpaid c... health care renewal medicare chiropractic https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/02/hrdi-story-remains-mainly-anechoic.html Health Care Renewal: HRDI Story Remains Mainly Anechoic We recently posted about the settlement between the Healthcare Research and Development Institute (HRDI) and the Connecticut Attorney Gener... health care renewal hrdi story remains mainly https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/08/sixth-international-congress-on-peer.html Health Care Renewal: Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication I just found out that the program of this year's Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, to be held on Septe... health care renewal international congress https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/08/are-emrs-more-secure-and-trustworthy.html Health Care Renewal: Are EMR's More Secure and Trustworthy Than Paper Records? Contrary to utopian praise of EMR's as more secure than paper records: Routine complication from surgery turns fatal Lance Williams, Chronic... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/03/ama-deluded-on-health-it-begs-for.html Health Care Renewal: AMA, Deluded on Health IT, Begs For Doctor Penalty Extension - Not Penalty... The American Medical Association (AMA) has become worse than useless: AMA urges issuance of EMR penalties be delayed Congressional Quarterly... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-smarming-of-health-care-how-to-spin.html Health Care Renewal: The Smarming of Health Care - How to Spin a Minimally Efficacious Variant on... A recent announcement of the approval of a new drug showed the latest ways pharmaceutical companies can spin products as new and effective w... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/01/physicians-as-significant-investors-in.html Health Care Renewal: Physicians As Significant Investors in the Manufacturers of the Devices They... OK, the holidays are over, so it's time to catch up. Just before the New Year, the New York Times reported on some questionable financial ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/02/it-makes-healthcare-easier-is-this.html Health Care Renewal: Information Technology Makes Healthcare Easier? Is This Industry Trying to... (Note: Part 1 of this series is here , part 2 is here , part 3 is here , part 4 is here , part 5 is here , part 6 is here , part 7 is here ... health care renewal https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2019/12/ Health Care Renewal: December 2019 Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy... health care renewal december https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/emrs-are-comingperhaps-not-so-fast.html Health Care Renewal: EMR's are coming...perhaps not so fast I agree with Egan that EMR's have the potential to be abused. The disquieting metaphor of clinicians becoming "glorified data entry personne... health care renewal emr https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/10/nemeroff-case-vs-anechoic-effect.html Health Care Renewal: The Nemeroff Case vs the Anechoic Effect The saga of Dr Charles Nemeroff was most recently discussed on Health Care Renewal here and here . We had first posted about his failure to... health care renewal case vs anechoic effect https://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/05/implementing-p4p-in-real-world-case-of.html Health Care Renewal: Implementing P4P in the Real World: the Case of Regence BlueShield The Seattle Times reported on how Regence BlueShield , "one of the state's largest health insurers" is implementing pay for performance (P4P... in the real world health care renewal