Cart before the horse, again: IOM to study HIT patient safety for ONC; should HITECH be repealed? Cart before the horse, again: IOM to study HIT patient safety for ONC; should HITECH be repealed?

In my July 2010 post " Meaningful Use Final Rule" I pointed out the cart-before-the-horse problem of creating "meaningful use...

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Novartis Settles..., But Wait, There's More Novartis Settles..., But Wait, There's More

Back in January, 2010, we posted about Novartis' settlement of charges that it promoted its anti-seizure drug, Trileptal, (Oxcarbazepin...

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That Wheel Was Already Invented:  the UN Special Rapporteur's Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies That Wheel Was Already Invented: the UN Special Rapporteur's Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies

For five years now, we have been writing about concentration and abuse of power in health care, and on specific tactics used predominantly b...

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More Tales of Hospital Executive Compensation: Pay for What? More Tales of Hospital Executive Compensation: Pay for What?

I have collected another series of stories from the wild and wacky world of health care executive compensation.  These are from three differ...

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Interface Problems, Ill-Informed Leadership, Suppression of Whistle Blowing: A New Look at a Historic Case Interface Problems, Ill-Informed Leadership, Suppression of Whistle Blowing: A New Look at a Historic Case

Three issues that come up frequently on Health Care Renewal are problems with man-machine interfaces in health care information technology (...

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The Dangers of Critical Thinking in A Politicized, Irrational Culture The Dangers of Critical Thinking in A Politicized, Irrational Culture

My early mentor in biomedicine Victor P. Satinsky MD lived by the credo "critical thinking always, or your patient's dead." Un...

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Health Care Leaders in Maine Fail to Learn from Past Experience Health Care Leaders in Maine Fail to Learn from Past Experience

From down east Maine comes a telling story about the problems of contemporary health care leadership.  I assembled this case from three arti...

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