Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 11, 2012

Bad Health IT -Yet Another Health IT 'Glitch' - Potential Image Loss in GE Centricity PACS; ECRI Again Reports Health IT a Top Ten Hospital Risk

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From my definition of bad health IT (BHIT) at this link : Bad Health IT ("BHIT") is defined as IT that is ill-suited to purpose, ...
Thứ Ba, 6 tháng 11, 2012

"Phony Consulting and Royalty Agreements," "Chocolate" Bribes, a Sales Representative Doubling as a Stripper, Oh My - Three Settlements for Othrofix

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On this US election day, we seem to be in a mini-squall of cases involving unethical, deceptive, and now very colorful marketing practices u...
Thứ Bảy, 3 tháng 11, 2012

DOES AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY MATTER?

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DOES AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY MATTER? The blogmeister of 1boringoldman.com has done it again. A semi-retired psychiatrist in rural Georgia, he ha...
Thứ Tư, 31 tháng 10, 2012

Just Another Day at the Office: Boehringer Ingelheim Settles Allegations of Deceptive Off-Label Marketing, Kickbacks

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Legal settlements by pharmaceutical companies for less than $100 million now seem to barely rate as news in the US. The best report, albeit...
Thứ Năm, 25 tháng 10, 2012

Marketers' Systemic Influence over Ostensibly Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Publications: the Medtronic Infuse BMP-2 Example

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On the heels of our discussion of how one pharmaceutical company employed a "publications strategy" to commission and control ran...
Thứ Tư, 24 tháng 10, 2012

Letter To U.S. Senators and Representatives Who've Sought HHS Input On EHR Problems

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Several members of Congress have written HHS demanding meetings on health IT issues such as upcoding, test overutilization, misuse of incent...
Thứ Sáu, 19 tháng 10, 2012

When Clinical Trials are Meant for Marketing, not Science

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The development of the randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) was one of the major scientific advances in clinical medicine.  RCTs provi...