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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Monday, May 11, 2009

IRS Changes Form 990 to Make Not-for-Profit Organizations More Transparent and Accountable

In the US, many important health care organizations are not-for-profit organizations. Many US medical schools, and other health educational...

Friday, May 08, 2009

Attacking "Crusaders" Against Conflicts of Interest with Logical Fallacies

An editorial appeared in the latest edition of Nature Medicine that suggested "crusaders" are making much too much fuss over insig...

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Medical Cyber Piracy: Are National Electronic Health Records Plans Premature?

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress and declared: "It is time for a great new American ente...

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Synthes Settles, Agrees to Stop Giving Stock to Physicians Conducting Clinical Trials

Again, 'tis the season for legal settlements. From the Newark Star-Ledger , New Jersey and Pennsylvania-based medical company Synthes re...

WellCare Settles, Accepts Deferred Prosecution Agreement

'Tis the season for deferred prosecution agreements for health care organizations. As reported by the Wall Street Journal : WellCare Hea...

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

EHR's and Scarcity of Public Reviews of the User Experience

I recently downloaded the public beta (incomplete trial version) of Apple's new web browser Safari 4 . I like its user experience and f...

Monday, May 04, 2009

Bio-Tech U

The San Francisco Chronicle just reported that a new Chancellor has been nominated for the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF)....

BLOGSCAN - At UMDNJ, Lose Your Job, Keep Your Cell Phone

We have frequently discussed the plight of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), the largest health care universit...

BLOGSCAN - Merck Hired Elsevier to Create Fake Peer-Reviewed Medical Journal

You just can't make this stuff up. On the Respectful Insolence blog , Orac recounted how pharmaceutical giant Merck hired medical publis...

Friday, May 01, 2009

Was Google lobbying Washington for HIPAA exclusion of their PHR effort?

At " Should Google Seek the Resignations of Those Responsible for This Healthcare IT Debacle? " I expressed great concern about wh...

Thursday, April 30, 2009

BLOGSCAN - Accountable Academic Governance Under Threat

On The Torch blog, hosted by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), this post by Kyle Smeallie summarized the travails of ...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Another Key Opinion Leader Confesses

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published another story in their series on physicians' entanglements with health care corporations. This ...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

UPMC as "Proving Ground" for IT Tests On Children: Pioneers in Health IT, or Pioneers in Ignoring the Past?

Hospitals as a "Proving Ground" for tests of unproven health IT - upon children? At my post " BusinessWeek on Health IT: The ...

INSTITUTE of MEDICINE REPORT on CONFLICT of INTEREST

INSTITUTE of MEDICINE REPORT on CONFLICT of INTEREST Today we saw a new marker laid down in the arena called Conflict of Interest (COI). The...

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