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  Teflon may be outdated now, but there certainly seems to be...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

Unknown 2/02/2015 Komentar

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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Time to "Look for the Union Label?" - "First US Doctors' Strike in Decades," at University of California Student Health

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Time to "Look for the Union Label?" - "First US Doctors' Strike in Decades," at University of California Student Health

Unknown 1/31/2015 Komentar

The First US Doctors' Strike in Decades A few news media outlets in California have reported on what has been up to now a very rare event - a strike by physicians.  An initial summary was in an article in the San Diego...

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CMS: Millions of patients across the nation are benefiting from the - um - potential - of Health IT?

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CMS: Millions of patients across the nation are benefiting from the - um - potential - of Health IT?

Unknown 1/30/2015 Komentar

I presume this is, in part, a response to the Jan. 21 letter from AMA and the other medical societies as I wrote about two days ago at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/01/meaningful-use-not-so-meaningul.html:CMS intends...

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