Sunday, 10 January 2016

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Yet another observation that known health IT-caused injuries and deaths are "the tip of the iceberg"

Yet another observation that known health IT-caused injuries and deaths are "the tip of the iceberg"

I've noted a new observation of the limited data available on health IT harms being the (quote) "tip of the iceberg."This statement appears in "Electronic Health Record–Related Events in Medical Malpractice Claims", Gruber...
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Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles:  ICD-10 has you covered.  Harmed by bad health IT?  No codes for that.

Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.

Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. The new ICD-10 coding system they must now use has codes like these, in case you...
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Friday, 8 January 2016

Generic Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of (Sometimes Failed, or Bailed Out) Finance on the Board?

Generic Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of (Sometimes Failed, or Bailed Out) Finance on the Board?

Introduction - Managerialism  We have frequently posted about what we have called generic management, the manager's coup d'etat, and mission-hostile management. Managerialism wraps these concepts up into a single package. ...
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Monday, 4 January 2016

Stealth Public Relations and Health Advocacy, Special Pleadings and the Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics

Stealth Public Relations and Health Advocacy, Special Pleadings and the Opposition to Guidelines Discouraging Overuse of Narcotics

As I have written before as a physician who saw too many dire results of intravenous drug abuse, I was amazed how narcotics were pushed as the treatment of choice for chronic pain in the 1990s, with the result that the US...
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