Thứ Ba, 21 tháng 8, 2012

Pfizer's Pforeign Pfiasco

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Quelle surprise.  Giant international pharmaceutical company Pfizer managed to go for nearly 10 months without announcing a major legal sett...
Thứ Hai, 20 tháng 8, 2012

Did Joint Commission Accredit a Hospital Whose Understanding of Medication Reconciliation is Recklessly Superficial?

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I submitted this complaint to the Joint Commission today. I've been challenging them in recent years (especially since my JAMA letter ...

Paging Doctor EBDITA - How Private Equity May Push Hospitals to Put Revenue Ahead of Patient Care

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Issues raised by the increasing influence of private equity firms in the direct care of patients were illuminated by a series of articles a...
Thứ Bảy, 18 tháng 8, 2012

Health IT difficulties and controversial excuses from health IT hyperenthusiasts and extremists

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As I observed at my Aug. 15, 2012 post " Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say ...
Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 8, 2012

EHR sabotage for ransom: Try this with paper!

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I have frequently written that health IT, touted as a technology that will deterministically "transform medicine", allows (aside f...
Thứ Tư, 15 tháng 8, 2012

Contra Costa's $45 million computer health care system endangering lives, nurses say

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I am providing a number of editorial comments about this familiar story of health IT difficulties (in red italics ), and additionally highli...
Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 8, 2012

When Does Lavish Executive Compensation Become "Embezzlement?"

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A single article in the Miami Herald raises the question of when is excessive executive compensation in health care too excessive.  To set ...