Thứ Sáu, 11 tháng 4, 2014

Healthcare IT Amateur Kathleen Sebelius Resigns - Good Riddance

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The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is resigning. Press reports say she is resigning in large part due t...
Thứ Tư, 9 tháng 4, 2014

FDA on health IT risk: reckless, or another GM-like political coverup? "We don't know the magnitude of the risk, and what we do know is the tip of the iceberg, but health IT is of 'sufficiently low risk' that we don't need to regulate it."

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In my Sept. 16, 2013 post "An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against...
Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 4, 2014

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards

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Background - a New Species of Conflict of Interest Since 2006 , we have posted repeatedly about  what was then a new species of severe conf...
Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 4, 2014

No Fooling - When a Retired Conservative Politician Warns About Oligarchy...

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then things must be getting really bad. Of course, we have been warning about oligarchy , and related issues such as concentration of power ...
Thứ Năm, 27 tháng 3, 2014

Too Good to be True - Sovaldi Kerfuffle Focuses on Price, While Ignoring Limits of Evidence about Effectiveness and Safety

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There seems to be rising skepticism about the prices we pay for the latest drugs, devices, and health care programs, especially in the US.  ...
Thứ Tư, 26 tháng 3, 2014

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Bad Health IT: "People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet"

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The ultimate "blame the user" excuse for bad health IT comes from, of all places, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Washington Fr...

James Fallows - The Atlantic - "The Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Health Care"

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James Fallows , a national correspondent for The Atlantic, wrote "The Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Health Care: Several ...