Thứ Sáu, 16 tháng 5, 2014

Is this Any Way to Discuss Health Care Policy? - Television Advertising about US Health Care Reform Cost $445 Million from 2010 -2014

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Every now and then, we get an anonymous comment criticizing our "lack of balance" or words to that effect, maybe because we critic...
Thứ Ba, 13 tháng 5, 2014

The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools

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The next chapter in the bizarre tale of the fugitive founder of an off-shore (from the US and Canada) Caribbean medical school, and his now ...
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Thứ Hai, 12 tháng 5, 2014

A Nurse's Union, National Nurses United, Takes On Bad Health IT

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National Nurses United ( http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/ ), a nurse's union, takes on bad health IT with both satire and seriousnes...

Cerner: "It’s in the DNA of our company to have the vision and passion to fix what’s broken in health care." Maybe they should fix their software first?

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I point out this hyper-exuberant piece on health IT in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Clearly someone at Cerner thinks they're going to cu...
Thứ Sáu, 9 tháng 5, 2014

EHR Story for Mother's Day 2014: Even The Formerly Simple Act Of Giving IV Fluids in ICU's Can Kill Babies. But's Let's Be Objective and Happy!

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[Note to the humorless:  this post is satirical and sardonic to make a very serious point about the perversity of downplaying/ignoring heal...
Thứ Tư, 7 tháng 5, 2014

Some Authoritative Skepticism about the "Triumph" of Sovaldi to Add to Outrage about "Blood Money"

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Three weeks ago we posted about the continuing controversy over the stratospheric price of the new antiviral drug for hepatitis C (HCV), sof...
Thứ Hai, 5 tháng 5, 2014

Abort, Retry, Fail? - Lancet Avoided Much Recent Unpleasantness in Reporting on New Gates Foundation CEO (Including Her Defense of $55,000 a Year for Bevacizumab)

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The April 26, 2014 issue of the prestigious journal Lancet used two full pages and two separate articles by the same author to discuss the a...