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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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development

In " Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: An Update " I wrote about the disputed essay on electronic health record (EHR)...

The Kelo Case Redux Once More: Pfizer Pulls Out and the "Carefully Formulated" Development Plan Collapses

Four years ago we posted ( here , here and here ) about the controversial US Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case. Most discussion of th...

Health IT Personnel: Want To Bone Up On Technology? Try This

An interesting article appeared in an IT journal that merits brief mention with respect to electronic health records: " Want to bone up...

Monday, November 09, 2009

Paging (and Paying) "Dr Coca-Cola"

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times Booster Shots blog announced that "Dr. Coca-Cola will see you now," noting opposition to t...

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: An Update

At the post " Academic Freedom Curtailed? " I wrote: The essay on Emergency Department electronic health record (EHR) problems in ...

Is Someone at Jefferson Regional Medical Center Lying About EHR Safety?

This curious story appeared about apparent clinician health IT safety concerns at Jefferson Regional Medical Center near Pittsburgh: Switch...

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

2009 a Pivotal Year in Healthcare IT

2009 is proving to be a pivotal year in healthcare IT. Recent authoritative articles and reports on health IT problems largely validate...

Monday, November 02, 2009

Did a Yakuza Boss Pay "A Million Dollars for One Liver?"

One of the more bizarre stories to appear on Health Care Renewal just resurfaced. To summarize, in June, 2008, we posted about the strange...

A Bridge in Brooklyn and an Electronic Medical Records Bargain: Only One Hundred Nineteen Million Dollars Per User - Tolls Included

One of the favorite debates people involved in IT seem to like to have is over the meaning of "failure" of IT projects. Merriam-We...

Friday, October 30, 2009

AstraZeneca Settles

Here is the latest in the parade of legal settlements of cases of alleged wrong-doing by health care organizations. As reported by Duff Wil...

An Alliance on Mental Illness or for Pharmaceutical Companies?

A recent article by Gardner Harris in the New York Times focused on the financial links among health care corporations and not-for-profit d...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments

We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine (EBM) approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health ca...

Monday, October 26, 2009

Who Should Sponsor Comparative Effectiveness Research?

We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post , Physicians ...

Clinic's medical files vanish

At " Data Malpractice on T-Mobile Sidekick: But Don't Worry, Your Medical Data is Safe ", on Oct. 16 I wrote: One of the prom...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Washington Post Article: Electronic medical records not seen as a cure-all

Regarding the very well done Sunday Oct. 25, 2009 story in the Washington Post " Electronic medical records not seen as a cure-all ...

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