In my Feb. 28, 2014 post " Malpractice Claims Analysis Confirms Risks in EHRs " ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/02/patient-sa...
Khadafy'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,p...
Henry 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 academ...
IMPEACHMENT: IT’S ABOUT THE INSTITUTION, NOT THE PERSON
IMPEACHMENT: IT’S ABOUT THE INSTITUTION, NOT THE PERSON The impeachment trial of Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana this week was a lesso...
What a Conflicted Web We Weave: Academic Economists, Finance, the Global Economic Meltdown, and the Impending Health Care Collapse
We have been writing about conflicts of interest in health care now for a long time. We started with a focus on academic physicians' ...
A "Very Well Paid Boob" on the Harvard Corporation?
The ongoing investigation of the global financial collapse may also shed some indirect light on what has gone wrong with health care. Consi...
Harvard Cut Money for Primary Care "Step-Child"
This story, about cuts in the funding for Harvard Medical School's minimal program in primary care, has received little attention in the...
BLOGSCAN - Reports from the ACRE Meeting
The proceedings at the first meeting of the benignly titled Association of Clinical Researchers and Educators (ACRE) was chronicled on the C...
"Man's Best Hospital," Run by the Boss of a MECC (Medical Education and Communications Company)?
In January, 2009 we posted about how the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts and of Partners HealthCare, made a secret or...
WellCare Settles, Accepts Deferred Prosecution Agreement
'Tis the season for deferred prosecution agreements for health care organizations. As reported by the Wall Street Journal : WellCare Hea...
BLOGSCAN - Accountable Academic Governance Under Threat
On The Torch blog, hosted by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), this post by Kyle Smeallie summarized the travails of ...
Hedge Fund U, Version 2
We have posted frequently on the governance and leadership of academic medical organizations. While one would think that health care organiz...