
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …