Why 99 Percent of the Irrationally Exuberant About Health IT Need To Be Removed From Healthcare
At Roy Poses' cross post " Why 99 percent of health care should be angry " over at the KevinMD blog, I introduced a comment in...
"Peer Benchmarking," the "Lake Wobegone Effect," and Outsize Executive Compensation: the Amgen Example
We recently discussed why health care's 99 percent may have reason to be upset with the one percent, the elite that run health care orga...
President of the American College of Physicians on Electronic Medical Records
I've taken so much flak over the years for being an "anti-EHR zealot", "a critic of the use of computerized medical recor...
Logical Fallacies to Support Putting a Major Academic Medical Center into the Contract Research Organization Business
Two uncritically positive biographical features on UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann MD appeared within the last two weeks, one in the ...
Another Month, Another Set of Legal Settlements, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, and Jury Findings Adverse to Large Health Care Corporations
Another month, another series of adverse legal rulings suggesting misbehavior by large health care organizations. In alphabetical order,......
"24", This Computer Project Was Not
A fascinating case study of IT failure in another life-critical domain has come to my attention. I think if the words "FBI" were r...
Health Care's "99 Percenters"
As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent paralle...