Thứ Năm, 10 tháng 11, 2011

The Parallels Between Health Care and Financial Dysfunction: Leadership's Impunity as Demonstrated by the Citigroup Case

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For years, we have noted the parade of legal settlements made by large health care organizations.  The parade is notable on one hand becaus...
Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 11, 2011

EHRevent.org Leadership: "Heck, getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous- it just beats the alternative"

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I have posted about the organization EHRevent.org on numerous occasions. I expressed concerns that this organization's representation as...
Thứ Ba, 8 tháng 11, 2011

CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals

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Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
Thứ Hai, 7 tháng 11, 2011

IOM Report - "Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care" - Nix the FDA; Create a New Toothless Agency

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[Authors' note: This major part of this post was written before I had the actual IOM report itself. Having now read that report, avail...
Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 11, 2011

Lifespan (Rhode Island): Yet another health IT "glitch" affecting thousands - that, of course, caused no patient harm that they know of - yet

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There's been yet another health IT "glitch" that, of course, caused no patients to be harmed. See other "glitches"...
Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 11, 2011

Health Care Also Needs to Challenge "Crony Capitalism," the "New Gilded Age, and "the Idolatry of the Market"

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The increasing size and scope of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement, and continuing instability in the finance system, most recentl...
Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 11, 2011

If a Medical School is Just Part of the "Biomedical Industry," Who Will Do Medical Education?

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A little while ago, we discussed questions raised by the pre-existing financial relationships of Dr Laurie Glimcher, the new incoming Dean ...