As I have written at Healthcare Renewal before, computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE's) are known to present risks to patien...
21st century EMR experiments: messing around with people's lives in a broke city, while not having a clue what you're doing
I was astounded to read the following passage in an interview of the current chief medical information officer at Detroit Medical Center (...
More on Hospital Market Dominance, Enabled by Secret Pricing
This week two more articles appeared describing how large hospital systems use market dominance to charge more. Naturally, both were in new...
Last Week's Scandals
The march of settlements and other unfavorable legal results for health care organizations continued last week, in alphabetical order CVS Se...
More Contaminated Heparin, But Who Leads the Company Who Supplied It?
We have posted multiple times over the last two years about the deadly contaminated heparin from China. (See the case summary and link at th...
Dr Coca-Cola, Meet Dr Butterfinger
First, it was the American Academy of Family Practice accepting money from Coca-Cola to support educational programs to foster a "healt...
Synthes and its Subsidiary Plead Guilty, Boss Remains Billionaire.
In December, 2009, we updated the story of Swiss-based medical device company Synthes and the marketing by its Norian division of a bone ce...