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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Friday, August 14, 2009

Senate Investigates Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations

Almost four years ago, we posted about the strange world of hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs). These organization purchase lar...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Who Investigated the Case of the Deadly Contaminated Heparin?

A year and a half ago, we posted quite a bit about the case of the deadly contaminated heparin. In retrospect, what is most amazing is how q...

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Whose Voices do US Congresspeople Hear on Health Care Reform?

Earlier today, we posted about the final version of the settlement of lawsuits against the global health care insurance company/ managed ca...

Are EMR's More Secure and Trustworthy Than Paper Records?

Contrary to utopian praise of EMR's as more secure than paper records: Routine complication from surgery turns fatal Lance Williams, Chr...

Final Settlement of UnitedHealth Backdating Case

Last year, we discussed a preliminary settlement of allegations against the leadership of one of the US (and the world's) biggest healt...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Shareholders Take Notice That Patients Used As Unconsented Guinea Pigs, Physicians as Bank by Health IT Vendors

At my Jan. 2009 post " Waste Feared in Digitizing Patient Records: Wall Street Journal " and others I have written about the illeg...

Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

I just found out that the program of this year's Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, to be held on S...

Saturday, August 08, 2009

AFL/CIO Interested in Healthcare IT Failure?

In today's Wall Street Journal, in a piece entitled " You Are Terrifying Us " about the growing opposition to the administrati...

Friday, August 07, 2009

SGIM Urges "Chuck the RUC"

This week, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) members received the 5 August, 2009, Update in Health Policy that urged we "chuc...

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Has Ghostwriting Infected The "Experts" With Tainted Knowledge, Creating Vectors for Further Spread and Mutation of the Scientific Knowledge Base?

I could have titled this piece "have the deceivers been themselves deceived?" Recent revelations have shown that biomedical ghos...

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Guest Blog - On the Need to Get Ethical

Guest blog by Dr William Tierney - This is old news. I'm the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, and in our ...

Wyeth's Industrial Scale Ghost-Writing

MedInformaticsMD noted the impending release of documents about how Wyeth engineered ghost-writing of articles about hormone replacement th...

Harvard Cut Money for Primary Care "Step-Child"

This story, about cuts in the funding for Harvard Medical School's minimal program in primary care, has received little attention in the...

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

HIMSS: Hospital CIO's Should Not Only Manage Healthcare IT, But Also Biomedical Engineering

I have written in the past about the territoriality of the IT department in hospitals, observing that the departments I was exposed to seeme...

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