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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Thursday, May 08, 2008

SSRIs, Stealth Marketing, and Public Radio

We have previously posted about instances of stealth marketing in public television ( here and here .) Now Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenz...

BLOGSCAN - LSD and the Corruption of Medicine

On the Scientific Misconduct blog, Dr AubreyBlumsohn has a series of posts ( here , here , and here ) about a case he considers a major prec...

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Payments for the Patient-Centered Medical Home Mired in the RUC

We have posted a number of times, (most recently here , and see links to earlier posts) about the RBRVS Update Committee's (RUC) respons...

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Earthlings and Htraesians: The Parallel Worlds of Medicine and Healthcare Information Technology

5/12/08 A preliminary note: To those who linked here from the May 12, 2008 HISTalk post that said this... From Blogreader : "Re: advan...

Monday, May 05, 2008

Another Conflicted Defense of Conflicts of Interest

It seems to be the season for defenses of financial relationships among medical academics and health care corporations to appear in the medi...

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Blaming "Some Dude" for Contaminated Heparin

It is time to update the story of the contaminated heparin. A summary of the story to date is below (in smaller type.): - We have posted se...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Is the HIMSS "Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems" stamp substantive, or just alphabet soup?

This post might be subtitled "when spending millions on health IT, why spend thousands on true healthcare informatics education when yo...

"Selective Reporting of Study 329"

A new study in a rather obscure journal has revealed more about the now infamous study 329. [Jureidini JN, McHenry LB, Mansfield PR. Clinica...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The AAMC Report on Medical Schools' Industry Relationships: A Glass Half Empty

The Association of American Medical Colleges ( AAMC ) just unveiled a report on relationships among academic medical institutions and the p...

Monday, April 28, 2008

BLOGSCAN - "Regulatory Capture," Heparin and the FDA

On the Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma blog, Dr Howard Brody discusses the recent case of toxic heparin (see our most recent post here ...

BLOGSCAN - Disease Mongering and Indefinite Use of Smoking Cessation Pharmaceuticals

On the Bioethics Forum, Dr Adriane Fugh-Berman and Dr Douglas Melnick discuss what appears to be the latest example of disease-mongering. A...

Pharma Union cowed into submission?

In various posts including this one , I've commented on the environment of cutbacks, quality issues, and fear that seems to permeate pha...

Sunday, April 27, 2008

On the Pitfalls of Going Electronic: Should Physicians Reject Hospital EMRs?

Yes, I believe they should, and with a spine, especially when they're lousy and their design and implementation have been led by people ...

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