Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"

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Wall Street Journal: "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle"

Unknown 2/18/2015 Komentar

This WSJ Op-Ed could have been entitled "President Sucker:  Led Down the Garden Path by The Healthcare IT Industry."It is entitled "ObamaCare’s Electronic-Records Debacle", as below.  First, though:On Feb. 18,...

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The $5.3 Million a Year Government Bureaucrat - The Top Administrator, or CEO of a "Government Entity," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, "Doing Business as" Carolinas Healthcare Gets a Raise

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The $5.3 Million a Year Government Bureaucrat - The Top Administrator, or CEO of a "Government Entity," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, "Doing Business as" Carolinas Healthcare Gets a Raise

Unknown 2/12/2015 Komentar

The pay given to top managers of health care organizations continues its seemingly inexorable rise, and the justifications for it seem to be increasingly perfunctory.  However, a closer look at individual cases can...

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Outsize Compensation for "Teflon-Coated" Executives - After Many Lawsuits and Negative News Stories, Norton Healthcare Executives Still Get Millions

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Outsize Compensation for "Teflon-Coated" Executives - After Many Lawsuits and Negative News Stories, Norton Healthcare Executives Still Get Millions

Unknown 2/05/2015 Komentar

In an earlier era of chemistry, politicians who continued to acquire votes while shedding doubts, criticisms, and allegations were called "Teflon-coated."  Teflon may be outdated now, but there certainly seems to be...

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ONC on healthcare IT and patient rights: These systems "have to be rolled out to know where the problems lie"

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ONC on healthcare IT and patient rights: These systems "have to be rolled out to know where the problems lie"

Unknown 2/03/2015 Komentar

An anonymous commenter to my blog post about the USA Today article on bad health IT (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/02/former-onc-director-david-blumenthal.html) noted this, that I myself missed:Anonymous said...Gettinger's...

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Former ONC Director David Blumenthal (Inadvertently?) Honest About EHRs in USA Today Story

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Former ONC Director David Blumenthal (Inadvertently?) Honest About EHRs in USA Today Story

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USA Today has published a story on health IT difficulties.  Read it in its entirety; it is fairly balanced, though mild, e.g., it omits mention of the ECRI Deep Dive study on patient harms (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/02/peering-underneath-icebergs-water-level.html)...

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