Thứ Ba, 10 tháng 4, 2012

There They Go Again - Pfizer CEO Compensation Triples, Ordinary Employees' Severance Cut

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In mid-March, Pfizer, which used to proclaim itself to be the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, announced in a regu...
Chủ Nhật, 8 tháng 4, 2012

The Pittsburgh Experiment - II - Another Echo of the Fall of AHERF

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We recently started a series of posts about the battle for domination of health care in western Pennsylvania.  The contenders are the UPMC ...
Thứ Năm, 5 tháng 4, 2012

The Pittsburgh Experiment - I - Caught in the Crossfire

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In our increasingly dysfunctional health care system, patients, health care professionals and the public are often caught in the crossfire b...
Thứ Tư, 4 tháng 4, 2012

More "You're Too Negative, And You Don't Provide The Solution To The Problems You Critique", This Time re: Pharma

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I think it worth noting that critical writers about both health IT and pharma attract a similar phenomenon: the anonymous attack accusing t...
Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 4, 2012

Divide by Zero: Weird Math in CMS Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) Criteria

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From the CMS " Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program - ATTESTATION USER GUIDE For Eligible Professionals (EPs) ...
Chủ Nhật, 1 tháng 4, 2012

University of Arizona Medical Center, $10 million in the red in operations, to spend $100M on new EHR system

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In my Oct. 2006 post " $70 million for an Electronic Medical Records system? " I wrote: ... healthcare doesn’t have the capital fo...
Thứ Bảy, 31 tháng 3, 2012

An Expensive Healthcare Computing Mistake: $1.5 Million

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At my June 2011 post " Babies' deaths spotlight safety risks linked to computerized systems " I reported on a case (case #2) o...