Thứ Tư, 20 tháng 10, 2010

"Toxic and Dangerous?" - The Watchdog vs Medtronic's Man at the VA

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An odd story that appeared earlier this month linked several people we have discussed on Health Care Renewal. On one hand, we posted about h...

Medical center has more than 6000 "issues" with Cerner CPOE system in four months - has patient harm resulted?

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As I have written at Healthcare Renewal before, computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE's) are known to present risks to patien...
Thứ Ba, 19 tháng 10, 2010

21st century EMR experiments: messing around with people's lives in a broke city, while not having a clue what you're doing

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I was astounded to read the following passage in an interview of the current chief medical information officer at Detroit Medical Center (...
Thứ Hai, 18 tháng 10, 2010

More on Hospital Market Dominance, Enabled by Secret Pricing

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This week two more articles appeared describing how large hospital systems use market dominance to charge more.  Naturally, both were in new...
Chủ Nhật, 17 tháng 10, 2010

Last Week's Scandals

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The march of settlements and other unfavorable legal results for health care organizations continued last week, in alphabetical order CVS Se...
Thứ Sáu, 15 tháng 10, 2010

More Contaminated Heparin, But Who Leads the Company Who Supplied It?

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We have posted multiple times over the last two years about the deadly contaminated heparin from China. (See the case summary and link at th...

Dr Coca-Cola, Meet Dr Butterfinger

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First, it was the American Academy of Family Practice accepting money from Coca-Cola to support educational programs to foster a "healt...