What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

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What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed

Unknown 3/31/2016 Komentar

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of "misbranding" Oxycontin.  The case appeared to be a landmark.  In previous...

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Medstar Health CEO basically admits EHRs are unnecessary after hackers take out its HIT

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Medstar Health CEO basically admits EHRs are unnecessary after hackers take out its HIT

Unknown 3/30/2016 Komentar

It's corporate spin, of course, but that's the plain meaning of what he says:http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/03/29/medstar-paralyzed-as-hackers-take-aim-at-another-us-hospital/For a second day, the region’s second-largest...

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Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

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Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage (And: ka-ching! ka-ching! EHR costs continue their upward spiral)

Unknown 3/30/2016 Komentar

Once again, a definition of bad health IT:Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is difficult and/or prohibitively expensive...

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Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

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Will There Ever Be Enough Straws to Break Corporate Health Care Managers' Impunity's Back? - Novartis Settles Yet Again, This Time for Bribing Doctors

Unknown 3/25/2016 Komentar

Umpteenth verse, same as the first...As just reported by Bloomberg,Novartis AG said it agreed to pay $25 million to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case that claimed the Swiss drugmaker paid bribes to health...

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There They Go Again - the New England Medical Journal Publishes another Rant, this Time about Power Morcellation

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There They Go Again - the New England Medical Journal Publishes another Rant, this Time about Power Morcellation

Unknown 3/21/2016 Komentar

In 2015, we noted (here and here) that the New England Journal of Medicine seemed to have been reduced to publishing rants about "pharmascolds" who are paranoid about conflicts of interest. Now there they go again.... BackgroundThe...

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Criminal matter for the Attorney General of NY? Hail the gods of medical computing, and the need for human sacrifice. NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders

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Criminal matter for the Attorney General of NY? Hail the gods of medical computing, and the need for human sacrifice. NYC’s $764M medical records system will lead to ‘patient death’: insiders

Unknown 3/17/2016 Komentar

I believe the suffering and death of my mother in 2010-2011 due to EHR flaws - including but not limited to lack of essential confirmation dialogs on medication deletion at triage, lack of notification messages informing...

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"How Employed Physicians' Contracts May Threaten Their Patients and Professionalism" Authored by Health Care Renewal Bloggers Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

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"How Employed Physicians' Contracts May Threaten Their Patients and Professionalism" Authored by Health Care Renewal Bloggers Published in Annals of Internal Medicine

Unknown 3/10/2016 Komentar

We have noted that increasing numbers of physicians provide patient care as employees of large organizations, often hospital systems, sometimes for-profit.  Since in these settings physicians must answer to generic...

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Trumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance

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Trumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance

Unknown 3/04/2016 Komentar

On Health Care Renewal, we frequently discuss deceptive marketing schemes designed to sell tests and treatments whose benefits for patients do not clearly outweigh their harms, and sometimes which are useless or dangerous. ...

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