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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

UK lawmakers slam slack pharmaceutical regulation

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The UK is often more outspoken and less "politically correct" in many ways regarding healthcare matters than the US. In this arti...
Monday, April 04, 2005

One Hospital System Will Stop Aggressive Collection Tactics Targeted at the Uninsured

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Meanwhile, from the Minnesota Star Tribune , the state Attorney General's office has secured an agreement fromthe large Fairview Health ...

A Revival of Physician-Run, Group Model Managed Care?

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In Florida, there are now a couple of "provider-sponsored organizations," which seem to be sort of a revival of the old physician-...
Saturday, April 02, 2005

Major ACPE Survey on Unethical Business Practices in US Health Care

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The results of a very important survey have just been published by the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) . A summary of surve...
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More Unrest Over the New NIH Ethics Rules

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The Washington Post reports yet more unrest among top NIH employees about the new ethics rules. Another prominenet leader is stepping down ...
Friday, April 01, 2005

Thoughts on the Merck CEO Getting a "Performance" Bonus

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Regarding the post below by Roy Poses: as former Director of Published Information Resources (running Merck Research Labs' science libr...

After Vioxx Withdrawal, How Did the Merck CEO Get a "Performance" Bonus?

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USA Today has an article (with accompanying data table ) about the resurgence of stratospheric pay for corporate CEOs. For example, Ray Gilm...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

NIH Update: Resistance Against New Conflict of Interest Rules Continues

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The New England Journal of Medicine this week has a good summary by Robert Steinbrook of the latest developments at the NIH. In particular, ...
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HCA leads campaign to curb doctor-owned hospitals

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An interesting article on the competition between physicians opening specialty hospitals owned by themselves and corporate medicine. Big-bus...
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Health Care Renewal Bloggers to Speak

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Kim Atwood and Tim Gorski will be speaking at a conference entitled "Curing the Ills of Alternative Medicine and Questionable Mental He...
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How Academic Health Centers' Advertising Put Their Interests Ahead of Those of Patients

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An important article was just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on the use of advertising by academic health centers (AHCs). [L...

From Harvard: Bigotry, the Disabled and Slippery Slopes

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The Philadelphia Inquirer has not replied to me nor, as far as I know, retracted its statement published on two consecutive days that in eut...
Saturday, March 26, 2005

Pain Management Caught in the Cross-Fire

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An op-ed in the NY Times about how doctors (and patients) are caught in the cross-fire when the issue is control of pain. Zealous enforceme...

Doctors call dehydration a 'peaceful' way for normal people to die?

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In the Philadelphia Inquirer article " Doctors call dehydration a 'peaceful' way to die " (Sat, Mar. 26, 2005), staff writ...
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Friday, March 25, 2005

Survival of AHCs: Why Do They?

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In a series of interviews conducted last year (2004), Drs. Hamilton Moses and Samuel Thier, along with David Matheson, Esq., asked 23 leader...
Thursday, March 24, 2005

The Costs of Computer Based Medical Technology

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My take on Arnold Kling's article on the " Myth of Massive Health Care Waste " has generated quite a bit of discussion on Klin...

Now, doctors DO things with computers

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In my writing I've long called for substantive leadership roles and titles for medical informaticists in healthcare, where the attitudes...

Now, doctors DO things with computers

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In my writing I've long called for substantive leadership roles and titles for medical informaticists in healthcare, where the attitudes...
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Wash. Post on Cedars-Sinai CPOE failure

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For anyone who doubts clinical IT is an area where angels fear to tread, there's this story in the Washington Post: Cedars-Sinai Docto...
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Clarification on VA Hospital System IT initiatives

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In response to my postings on the Penn CPOE controversy such as here , where I included a reference to the Bay Pines VA Hospital IT system f...
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Massive Health Care Waste? - Follow-Up

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For Kling's response on the EconLog blog to the post below about waste in health care, go here . (For some comments on his Tech Central...

Is Massive Health Care Waste a Myth?

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There is an interesting contrarian piece on the costs of health care by Arnold Kling on Tech Central Station , which was also picked up by T...
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BC/BS employs non-credentialable person to do their credentials

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I couldn't invent a better story. BC/BS of Mass,( and many other health plans across the country) use a credentialing service for radi...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

On the Terri Schiavo case

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On the Terri Schiavo case, I post a question above and beyond its being taken over from clinicians (as seems to occur in healthcare more oft...
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My opinions on Penn CPOE controvery published in Health-IT World

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My opinion piece on the JAMA article on the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's CPOE system problems has been published in Heal...
Monday, March 21, 2005

What Mercy Will the Uninsured Patients of Mercy Health Systems Get?

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A story from Arkansas about hospitals billing uninsured patients at higher "rack rates" than they bill insured patients contains s...
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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Generous CEO Compensation and Corporate Governance

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Re some previous posts in which we noted that managed care CEOs who publicly champion cutting health care costs often seem to command dispro...
Friday, March 18, 2005

AMIA on the JAMA CPOE article controversy

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A reasonable assessment of the recent CPOE controversy by Don Detmer, MD, the President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Associ...