Thứ Năm, 7 tháng 7, 2011

Being a Non-Profit Hospital CEO Means Never Having to Say You Are Sorry

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When my arm was twisted heartily to see the movie "Love Story" a very long time ago, I could never understand why so many audience...
Thứ Tư, 6 tháng 7, 2011

Law firms as enablers of HIT experiments? Familiar law firm now regular reader of Healthare Renewal

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It continues to amaze me that unregulated, unvetted healthcare information technology of unproven benefit and proven harm continues to sprea...
Thứ Ba, 5 tháng 7, 2011

Here Comes Your New Doctor, Brought to You By UnitedHealth

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A long time ago, practicing physicians were mainly self-employed solo practitioners. As health care became more bureaucratic, physicians for...

Nice post-holiday story with a happy ending

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Totally unrelated to medicine, but a nice post-holiday story with a happy ending as a break from our routine of grim news. Kitten rescue fro...
Chủ Nhật, 3 tháng 7, 2011

BLOGSCAN: Forensic Statistics

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Several interesting points are raised in the newsletter of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in a post entitled ...
Thứ Sáu, 1 tháng 7, 2011

The Restless Shade of AHERF and the Return of Merger Mania: Highmark Tries to Buy Another Insurance Company, a Hospital System, a Medical School, and Physicians' Practices

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Starting in the 1990s, as US health care became more commercialized, a wave of mergers lead to super-sized hospital systems, insurance compa...
Thứ Năm, 30 tháng 6, 2011

Hospital system has major computer breakdown with "resultant chaos"; patients not adversely affected (of course)

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As mentioned on this blog numerous times. Healthcare IT outages never, but never , adversely affect patients in any manner whatsoever: Trave...