Thứ Sáu, 17 tháng 6, 2011

Blogscan: UK unencrypted laptop health breach affects more than 8.6 million records

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From the blog " Australian Health Information Technology ": Who Needs Hackers When There Are Accidents Like This? The PCEHR [ Pers...
Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 6, 2011

UCB Settles, Pleads Guilty

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Tromp, tromp, tromp.... the legal settlements keep marching along.  This latest story was reported by Reuters and Bloomberg .  The basics w...
Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 6, 2011

Two More Settlements, One More Corporate Integrity Agreement for Novo Nordisk

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And the legal settlements for health care organizations keep right on marching along.  Here are the basics, per the Wall Street Journal, st...
Thứ Hai, 13 tháng 6, 2011

The First Contaminated Heparin Case Verdict: Making Money by Giving Patients "the Cheap Stuff"

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In February, 2008, we first posted about the case of the deadly adulterated heparin.  (A case summary is appended to the end of this post, ...

BLOGSCAN - Care and Feeding of Key Opinion Leaders

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On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody looked further into how cultivating "key opinion leaders" has no...
Thứ Tư, 8 tháng 6, 2011

Covert's Anechoic Misadventures

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We have frequently discussed how health care leaders' compensation seems to reflect the opposite of the pay for performance they often t...
Thứ Ba, 7 tháng 6, 2011

My mother passed away

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My mother, affected catastrophically by an EHR-related medical error last year, passed away yesterday evening. In her memory, a photo of her...