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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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The National Program for Healthcare IT in the U.S., and the Elephant in the Living Room

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun to address deficient clinical IT usability. A PDF with presentation...

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH: "Let's be patient" with experimental devices that harm patients

At an interview of Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, former Chairman of the Board of health IT trade group HIMSS and chief medical officer o...

Monday, July 19, 2010

Not Your Average Joe's Health Plan

A Denver Post article offered a brief glimpse into the health benefits of corporate leaders, on the unusual occasion of a former CEO now in...

Prosecuting Doctors for Importing IUDs from Canada, but Still No Penalties for Selling Adulterated Heparin from China

Here in Rhode Island, the big health care story recently was the use of unapproved intra-uterine devices (IUDs) by some local obstetrician-g...

Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Avandia Spin Cycle Continues Even After the FDA Safety Hearings

We have posted multiple times about Avandia (rosiglitazone), GlaxoSmithKline's star-crossed glucose-lowering drug. While Avandia has re...

Friday, July 16, 2010

The New York Times Reports A University President's Conflict of Interest

Three months ago, we discussed the controversy at the University of Michigan about the university president's position on the board of...

FDA MAUDE Database: Patient Outcome - Death

I present another health IT problem case from the FDA's voluntary MAUDE ( Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience ) database b...

Thursday, July 15, 2010

NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company: "Electronic Health Records: Recognizing and Managing the Risks"

The Insurance Industry is catching on that EMR's and other clinical IT are not exactly the cybernetic miracles they're sometimes hel...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Eli Lilly CEO on “America’s Growing Innovation Gap”

In “ America’s Growing Innovation Gap ”, WSJ, July 9, 2010, Eli Lilly CEO John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D. writes that: “…the most important...

Science or Politics? The New England Journal and "The 'Meaningful Use' Regulation for Electronic Health Records"

In the NEJM article " The 'Meaningful Use' Regulation for Electronic Health Records ", David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. (ONC...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

New CMS Chief Donald Berwick: a Trojan Horse for Quackery?

On July 7, President Obama appointed Dr. Donald Berwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Berwic...

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