Challenging the meme that [yes, there are all these drastic flaws and problems - BUT] ... EHRs improve patient safety

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Challenging the meme that [yes, there are all these drastic flaws and problems - BUT] ... EHRs improve patient safety

Unknown 6/16/2015 Komentar

One of the most persistent memes in healthcare IT is that, for all their deficits, bugs, flaws, interferences in care, and so forth, these systems "improve patient safety."I find the meme remarkable. 37 medical societies...

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The 2015 PharmedOut Meeting

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The 2015 PharmedOut Meeting

Unknown 6/13/2015 Komentar

The 2015 PharmedOut.org meeting is now in the history books.  It featured many presentations and considerable formal and informal discussion about issues relevant to Health Care Renewal, including adverse effects of...

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Who Benefits? - Despite Data Breaches, Staff Cuts, Vulnerable Patients' Coverage Cuts, Transplant Program Probation, Multi-Million Dollar Executive Compensation Persists at UPMC

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Who Benefits? - Despite Data Breaches, Staff Cuts, Vulnerable Patients' Coverage Cuts, Transplant Program Probation, Multi-Million Dollar Executive Compensation Persists at UPMC

Unknown 6/10/2015 Komentar

There are so many things wrong with US and global health care that it is easy to get lost in the details, and despair of finding solutions.  Keep in mind, however, that the intractability of many of the problems may...

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Health Care Professional Societies Whose Leadership Betrays Their Own Members - the APA Alleged to Have Supported Torture, and Deceived its Members to Collect Money

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Health Care Professional Societies Whose Leadership Betrays Their Own Members - the APA Alleged to Have Supported Torture, and Deceived its Members to Collect Money

Unknown 6/05/2015 Komentar

Health care professionals usually view their professional societies as allies, supporting their values and acting in their professional and their patients' interests.  Increasingly, however, these societies appear to...

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Say It Ain't So, Again - a "Push Poll" to Minimize the Hazards of Conflicts of Interest ...in the New England Journal of Medicine?

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Say It Ain't So, Again - a "Push Poll" to Minimize the Hazards of Conflicts of Interest ...in the New England Journal of Medicine?

Unknown 6/03/2015 Komentar

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a remarkable series of apologiae for conflicts of interest,(1-4) about which we have published three posts, here, here, and here.  Just to ice the cake, the NEJM...

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