Health Care Renewal

Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power - and now larger threats to the democracy needed to advance health and welfare. Advocating for accountability, integrity, transparency, honesty and ethics in leadership and governance of health care.

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Business Management Stories That Resonate for Health Care

Two recent stories about business management in the US have a certain resonance for health care. The first, from the Associated Press (via...

Friday, January 05, 2007

Two Cases Demonstrating the Reluctance of Medical Journals and Scientific Meetings to Air Criticisms of Vested Interests

Two follow-ups on stories recently discussed on Health Care Renewal demonstrate how hard it is to openly criticize the powers that be in hea...

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Leadership Position in Health Informatics: MD's Need Not Apply?

My colleague Roy Poses writes about deliberate malfeasance in the healthcare sector. I write about overconfidence and recklessness in manag...

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The "Suits" Win Again: How the "Big, Bad, Greedy Pharmaceutical Company" Used One Drug to Hike Another's Price

Here is a little more enlightenment about why the price of health care is so awfully high, from the Wall Street Journal , the example of how...

Physicians As Significant Investors in the Manufacturers of the Devices They Implant

OK, the holidays are over, so it's time to catch up. Just before the New Year, the New York Times reported on some questionable financ...

Friday, December 29, 2006

Middlemen and a Health Care System Dominated by Bureaucrats and Managers

The Wall Street Journal today wrapped up its series on "middlemen" in health care. The summary article has some telling quotes, an...

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Medical Meeting Spikes Session on Conflicts of Interest

There seems to be a run of stories about academic fora rejecting discussions of conflict of interest (see most recent post here about how t...

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

"Medical Journal Spikes Article On Industry Ties"

From the Wall Street Journal, an article that will pretty much speak for itself, with a little re-ordering and editing by yours truly. Firs...

UMDNJ as a Political Sand-Box

The Newark Star-Ledger just published another in its long series of stories on the troubles at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of N...

Another Electronic Medical Record Horror Story

The Wall Street Journal today published a story on a patient, Patricia Galvin, who was screwed by insurers after medical information she tho...

Friday, December 22, 2006

More on Questionable Marketing of Atypical Anti-Psychotic Drugs

Yet more information is emerging about questionable practices used by pharmaceutical companies to market psychiatric medications. The New ...

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Guidelines in Whose Interest? - Pharmaceutical Companies and the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP)

Out of Texas comes a story with allegations of pharmaceutical industry involvement in the crafting of state mandates for the treatment of ps...

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