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 10, 2010

Leaders of Discredited Financial Rating Agencies as Leaders of Health Care

This is the latest in our informal series on the cross-linkages between the thinking and leadership that lead to the global financial collap...

Why Pretend An Advertising Executive and Chamber of Commerce Leader Are Public Health Experts?

Obesity as a public health problem has been the subject of considerable discussion. So that luminaries from the prestigious Partners Health...

Saturday, May 08, 2010

$19 Million Means Never Having to Say You Are Sorry?

Johnson and Johnson, the giant diversified health care company, recently shut down a factory that manufactured non-prescription childrens...

Friday, May 07, 2010

Novartis Settles, Again

We certainly could not go another week without discussing another settlement of charges of unethical behavior by a major health care organiz...

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

More Questions, No Answers About the Case of the Deadly Heparin - Some Congressmen Weigh In

In 2008, we started posting on how the "active pharmaceutical ingredient" of heparin made in China under apparently primitive cond...

Monday, May 03, 2010

David Blumenthal on health IT safety: nothing to see here, move along

At " FDA on Health IT Adverse Consequences: 44 Reported Injuries And 6 Deaths In Two Years, Probably Just Tip of Iceberg " I wrote...

Board Member Blows Whistle on Health Insurance Company's Accounting

We previously posted about some of the travails of for-profit health insurance company/ managed care organization Wellcare. In August, 2009...

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Sunday Settlement and Guilty Plea Roundup

Here we go again. AstraZeneca / Seroquel We have posted frequently about allegations of devious marketing techniques used by AstraZenec...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Investigations, Indictments and Guilty Pleas at Famous US Teaching Hospitals

Some of the US most prestigious academic medical centers have been receiving unusual scrutiny lately. Mount Sinai Medical Center and New Y...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Judge Rejects Prosecutors' Lenient Settlement of the Case of the Hidden Defibrillator Defects

We just discussed the proposed settlement of a case in which the Guidant subsidiary of Boston Scientific was alleged to have withheld infor...

Pondering Leadership

This blog often talks about the failure of leaders in health care. The April, 2010, issue of Harvard Business Review boasts an entire ...

Oh, the Prices We Pay, Reloaded - Celgene Balks at Explaining High Price of Thalidomide

A brief article on Bloomberg.com implied that Celgene has been fighting efforts by the Canadian Patented Medicine Prices Review Board to ge...

Sunday, April 25, 2010

BLOGSCAN: CMSS New Ethics Code Analyzed

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies got some good press for its new code of ethics regarding medical associations' interaction wi...

Friday, April 23, 2010

Explaining Health Care Executives' Impunity - the (Unexplained) Leniency of Prosecutors

On Health Care Renewal, we noted many legal settlements and criminal convictions in cases alleging unethical behavior by health care organ...

Pay for Hypocrisy for Health Insurance Executives

A few weeks ago, we discussed the cognitive dissonance produced by huge salary boosts for top executives of health care companies with mise...

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