CPOE CesspoolCPOE Cesspool

An accomplished physician who read my post on CPOE at Memorial Sloan Kettering causing medical errors and near misses, and lack of FD&C Act regulation of health IT medical devices, relates the followi…

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30 Apr 2011

The Quack Remedy of CommercializationThe Quack Remedy of Commercialization

Paul Krugman has a recent column, "Patients Are Not Consumers." He concludes the column by saying:The idea that all this can be reduced to money — that doctors are just “providers” selling services to…

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27 Apr 2011

RUCing About - Conflicts of Interest Affecting the Members of the RBRVS Update CommitteeRUCing About - Conflicts of Interest Affecting the Members of the RBRVS Update Committee

Since 2007, we have been writing about the secretive RUC (RBRVS Update Committee), the private AMA committee that somehow has managed to get effective control over how Medicare pays physicians. The RU…

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26 Apr 2011

Will a Pharmaceutical CEO Finally Be Held Accountable for Misbehavior on His Watch?Will a Pharmaceutical CEO Finally Be Held Accountable for Misbehavior on His Watch?

It appears there may be a move afoot to have the leader of a large health organization suffer some negative consequences for the misbehavior of his organization.  As reported by the St Louis Post-Disp…

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25 Apr 2011

Henry Ford Health System Decides Meaningful Use Not That MeaningfulHenry Ford Health System Decides Meaningful Use Not That Meaningful

The CMIO for inpatient services for Henry Ford Health System discusses the Michigan system's decision to hold off on applying for meaningful use funding in 2011, and what that means for its long-term…

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22 Apr 2011

Abbott Laboratories Settles, AgainAbbott Laboratories Settles, Again

In 2007, we discussed a scheme that Abbott Laboratories seemed to be using to boost the price of Kaletra, a combination of two protease inhibitors it markets to treat HIV and AIDS. Kaletra is a combin…

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20 Apr 2011

Khadafy's Academic Mercenaries' Health Care ConnectionsKhadafy's Academic Mercenaries' Health Care Connections

We just discussed Henry Kissinger as an early example of the intellectual mercenary, and recent striking examples of academic mercenaries,particularly the Harvard University-derived Monitor Group's ac…

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19 Apr 2011

Henry Kissinger, Iceland's Promoter, Khadafy's Apologists, and the Rise of the Academic MercenaryHenry Kissinger, Iceland's Promoter, Khadafy's Apologists, and the Rise of the Academic Mercenary

In which we discuss how medical academic mercenaries (like the key opinion leaders paid to promote drugs and devices cloaked in their academic and professional credentials) now appear to be just part …

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18 Apr 2011

FDA Decides Regulating Implantable Defibrillator Medical Devices a FDA Decides Regulating Implantable Defibrillator Medical Devices a "Political Hot Potato"; Demurs

Well, not exactly, but they have decided regulation of another medical device is a political hot potato, and demurred on enforcing regulation: Health IT. Health IT are medical devices.FDA's Chair of t…

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16 Apr 2011

"The 'Third Rail' that No One Wishes to Analyze" - Conflicts of Interest Affecting Health Care Foundations

On Health Care Renewal we discuss what we think are important issues affecting health care that seem to be rarely mentioned in the medical and health care literature and the "main-stream media."  In p…

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14 Apr 2011

Johnson and Johnson Runs Afoul of Foreign Corrupt Practices ActJohnson and Johnson Runs Afoul of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Johnson and Johnson, the once highly reputed international pharmaceutical and device company, cannot catch a break.  International Bribery ChargesAs reported by Bloomberg, the latest story is about br…

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13 Apr 2011

Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician- Centric CPOE (Wait - The Terms Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician- Centric CPOE (Wait - The Terms "Safety", "Risk" and "Error" Are Missing)

In a 2011 "White Paper" from a company PatientKeeper entitled "Toward Meaningful Usability: Five Keys to Creating Physician-Centric CPOE" (PDF), an organization whose motto is "Enabling Physicians to …

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13 Apr 2011
 
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