Time to "Look for the Union Label?" - "First US Doctors' Strike in Decades," at University of California Student Health

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Time to "Look for the Union Label?" - "First US Doctors' Strike in Decades," at University of California Student Health

Unknown 1/31/2015 Komentar

The First US Doctors' Strike in Decades A few news media outlets in California have reported on what has been up to now a very rare event - a strike by physicians.  An initial summary was in an article in the San Diego...

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CMS: Millions of patients across the nation are benefiting from the - um - potential - of Health IT?

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CMS: Millions of patients across the nation are benefiting from the - um - potential - of Health IT?

Unknown 1/30/2015 Komentar

I presume this is, in part, a response to the Jan. 21 letter from AMA and the other medical societies as I wrote about two days ago at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/01/meaningful-use-not-so-meaningul.html:CMS intends...

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None Dare Call It Health Care Corruption

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None Dare Call It Health Care Corruption

Unknown 1/29/2015 Komentar

... even when allegedly a prominent academic physician's traded referrals of cancer patients to a law firm, resulting in referral fees to a prominent politician who worked for the firm, for government research grants to...

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"Meaningful Use" not so meaningful: Multiple medical specialty societies now go on record about hazards of EHR misdirection, mismanagement and sloppy hospital computing

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"Meaningful Use" not so meaningful: Multiple medical specialty societies now go on record about hazards of EHR misdirection, mismanagement and sloppy hospital computing

Unknown 1/28/2015 Komentar

The "Meaningful Use" program for EHRs is a mismanaged boondoggle causing critical issues of patient safety, EHR usability, etc. to be sidestepped.This is on top of the unregulated U.S. boondoggle which should probably be...

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Logical Fallacies in Defense of Aggresive Screening for and Treatment of Hepatitis C

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Logical Fallacies in Defense of Aggresive Screening for and Treatment of Hepatitis C

Unknown 1/22/2015 Komentar

And the hepatitis C follies continue... As we have frequently written, most recently last week, the hepatitis C screening and treatment bandwagon keeps rolling along.  There is constant public argument about the prices...

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Making the Arc of the Moral Universe Bend

Making the Arc of the Moral Universe Bend

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On this day, the US celebrates the legacy of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr once famously addressed the question of how long it would take to achieve some measure of real equality in the US (in the...

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The Fashion Challenges of the Emperor of Hepatitis C Treatment - Now in the BMJ, but Who Will Notice?

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The Fashion Challenges of the Emperor of Hepatitis C Treatment - Now in the BMJ, but Who Will Notice?

Unknown 1/16/2015 Komentar

As we wrote, most recently last week, the hepatitis C screening and treatment bandwagon keeps rolling along.  There is constant public argument about the prices of treatment regimens, which approach $100,000 per patient...

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The March of Legal Settlements Continues into 2015 - Daiichi Sankyo Settles Charges of Kickbacks to Doctors for $39 Million

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The March of Legal Settlements Continues into 2015 - Daiichi Sankyo Settles Charges of Kickbacks to Doctors for $39 Million

Unknown 1/14/2015 Komentar

We are just into January and have our first legal settlement by a major health care corporation of charges of giving physicians kickbacks to spur use of a commercial product.  Like most such stories, this one got little...

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Once More, the Hospital CEO as Scrooge - Cape Cod Healthcare CEO Collected Millions in Severance After Laying Off Hundreds of Health Professionals, and Being Sanctioned by the State Medical Board

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Once More, the Hospital CEO as Scrooge - Cape Cod Healthcare CEO Collected Millions in Severance After Laying Off Hundreds of Health Professionals, and Being Sanctioned by the State Medical Board

Unknown 1/08/2015 Komentar

The theme of non-profit hospital CEO as Scrooge seems to be persisting in the media even beyond the holiday season.  (Our last post on this theme was in December, 2014).  The previous cases we discussed (also here)...

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