Ross Koppel challenges feckless academics on poor health IT design

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Ross Koppel challenges feckless academics on poor health IT design

Unknown 11/27/2015 Komentar

The academic health IT community has spent the past decade (at least) burying their collective ostrich heads in the sand about the crappy software that is called health IT.A few, though, have taken on the health IT industry...

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Their Cheating Hearts - Latest Allergan Settlement Is a Reminder of Merger Participants' Sketchy Pasts

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Their Cheating Hearts - Latest Allergan Settlement Is a Reminder of Merger Participants' Sketchy Pasts

Unknown 11/25/2015 Komentar

A Huge, but Sketchy Merger The announced merger and "tax inversion" of Pfizer and Allergan would be one of the largest corporate marriages in US history.  It has drawn more than its share of criticism.  For example,...

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What Revolving Door? - An Unprecedented Endorsement of a Political Appointment by the "Gold Standard" Medical Journal

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What Revolving Door? - An Unprecedented Endorsement of a Political Appointment by the "Gold Standard" Medical Journal

Unknown 11/20/2015 Komentar

An Unprecedented Endorsement  It's deja vu all over again.  In the spring of 2015, the New England Journal, the most prestigious US medical journal, published a remarkable series of opinion pieces extrolling physician-industry...

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Health Care Renewal Bloggers in Print on Conflicts of Interest and Health Care Corruption

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Health Care Renewal Bloggers in Print on Conflicts of Interest and Health Care Corruption

Unknown 11/18/2015 Komentar

Not to toot our own horn too loudly, but in the last week, Health Care Renewal bloggers have appeared in print three times.Prevalence of Board Level Conflicts of InterestWe recently posted on a British Medical Journal article...

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"Dreaming On" - The Illusions of the Leaders of Large Health Organizations, as Illustrated by Medtronic's Founder

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"Dreaming On" - The Illusions of the Leaders of Large Health Organizations, as Illustrated by Medtronic's Founder

Unknown 11/13/2015 Komentar

On Health Care Renewal, we have posted story after story about amazingly well paid leaders of big organizations presiding over amazingly bad organizational behavior (including subversion of mission, conflicts of interest,...

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What They Really Think of Us (Swiss Version) - Novartis CEO Would Not Commit to Changing Company Behavior After Latest of Multiple Legal Settlements

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What They Really Think of Us (Swiss Version) - Novartis CEO Would Not Commit to Changing Company Behavior After Latest of Multiple Legal Settlements

Unknown 11/05/2015 Komentar

The huge corporations which now dominate global health care are creating amazing records of repeated ethical misadventures.  We last discussed multinational Swiss based pharmaceutical manufacturer Novartis' escapades...

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