
The Wall Street Journal reported on a study in Health Affairs entitled "A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals" by Harvard researcher Ashish Jha and colleagues.An Aug. 27 WSJ…
The Wall Street Journal reported on a study in Health Affairs entitled "A Progress Report On Electronic Health Records In U.S. Hospitals" by Harvard researcher Ashish Jha and colleagues.An Aug. 27 WSJ…
The issue of executive compensation in health care seems to be attracting more media attention.A St Louis Post-Dispatch editorial noted how executive compensation for for-profit health insurance CEOs …
Two recent stories from two different parts of the US continue the theme of ever increasing concentration of power in our health care system.ConnecticutThe Hartford Business Journal reported on growin…
In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.The Supermarine Spitfire, key defense tool in the Battle of Britain. (Worked without major…
At my post Are computers in medicine narcotic? "Why did the National Programme for IT fail?" I observed that the healthcare IT mania/bubble is being driven in part by non-clinical hysterics who be…
As we predicted, it seems that the US Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) increased reporting requirements for not-for-profit organizations are leading to more examples of the coziness now prevalent amon…
I noted an article Why did the National Programme for IT fail? by an "ex-IT person" at the site Smart Healthcare.com in a series entitled "Patient from Hell."Aside from the intoxicant qualities of cr…