Pollyanna Rhetoric, Proximate Futures and Realist's Primer on Health IT Realities in 2015

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Pollyanna Rhetoric, Proximate Futures and Realist's Primer on Health IT Realities in 2015

Unknown 4/27/2015 Komentar

Pollyanna statements about healthcare IT such as the following are still appearing, and are growing increasingly tiresome.  They are, at best, demonstrations of people with a fiduciary duty to have known better making...

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More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

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More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

Unknown 4/26/2015 Komentar

There are still some idealistic physicians who enter primary care practice as a calling.The usual informal definition of primary care is care which is continuous, coordinated, comprehensive and compassionate.  The official...

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Open Letter to Minnesota's Heath Commissioner Dr. Edward Ehlinger on ill-informed health IT puff piece

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Open Letter to Minnesota's Heath Commissioner Dr. Edward Ehlinger on ill-informed health IT puff piece

Unknown 4/25/2015 Komentar

Minnesota's Heath Commissioner Dr. Edward Ehlinger penned a puff piece on EHRs entitled "Electronic health records advance quality care for all Minnesotans" (Minn Post, 4/23/15, http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2015/04/electronic-health-records-advance-quality-care-all-minnesotans).It...

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On Generic Management in Health Care: Hospital Chief Information Officers (CIOs) Say Patient Engagement is All About ... Themselves?

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On Generic Management in Health Care: Hospital Chief Information Officers (CIOs) Say Patient Engagement is All About ... Themselves?

Unknown 4/20/2015 Komentar

To laugh or to cry? - now it seems that hospital CIOs think they "own" patient engagement.  An article in Medscape summarized a presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual...

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"God Damn the Pusher Man" - Especially when Enabled by the FDA Revolving Door

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"God Damn the Pusher Man" - Especially when Enabled by the FDA Revolving Door

Unknown 4/13/2015 Komentar

Who is watching the watchers?  A story this week involving "speed" like drugs added to "dietary supplements" suggests how far the once respected US Food and Drug Administration has fallen.An Amphetamine-Like Drug Spiking...

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Three More Settlements by Medtronic of Allegations of Deceptive Behavior, but No Umpire Says "You're Out"

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Three More Settlements by Medtronic of Allegations of Deceptive Behavior, but No Umpire Says "You're Out"

Unknown 4/09/2015 Komentar

Medtronic, the giant, previously US based device maker settled three lawsuits, all alleging deceptive practices, over three months in early 2015.  I will summarize the settlements in chronological order.Medtronic Subsidiary...

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Not with a bang but with a whimper

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Not with a bang but with a whimper

Unknown 4/07/2015 Komentar

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but with a whimper     -- T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men, 1925Those across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...

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The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part II: the History since 2005

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The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part II: the History since 2005

Unknown 4/03/2015 Komentar

In our most recent post, we noted the latest tragic, and gruesome development at Cooper Health System, the largest hospital system in southern New Jersey.  Months after the system CEO, John F Sheridan, and his wife...

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The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part I: Historical Background

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The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part I: Historical Background

Unknown 4/01/2015 Komentar

Allegations of Murder-Suicide by a Hospital System CEO This will be a hard series of posts to write. It wa triggered by the latest, and perhaps most gruesome chapter in the troubled history of the leadership of Cooper Health,...

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