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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

How the Fallacy of the "Perfect" Health Care Market Undermined Professionalism and Caused Health Care Dysfunction - in the New York Times

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We began this blog way back in 2005 to discuss threats to physicians' values, especially from concentration and abuse of power.  Persona...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Proprietary Information," Confidentiality Motions, and the Anechoic Effect; the Case of the Contaminated Heparin

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The case of the deadly contaminated heparin sold by Baxter International has received much less attention than seems warranted given its hum...
Monday, August 16, 2010

St. Vincent's Goes Bankrupt, Executives Earn Millions

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St. Vincent's Hospital in the Greenwich Village section of New York City was a landmark institution which filed for bankruptcy in April,...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

EPIC's outrageous recommendations on healthcare IT project staffing

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"Critical thinking always, or your patient's dead" - Victor Satinsky, MD, NSF-funded summer science training program (SSTP) fo...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Being a Health Insurance Executive Means Never Being Able to Say You Are Sorry

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WellPoint, the largest US for-profit health care insurance company, has provided a steady stream of examples of poor management and bad beha...
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A Golden Parachute for Making Contaminated Drugs?

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In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to pa...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Deceptive Marketing, For-Profit Universities, and Health Care Education

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Last week, reports about deceptive marketing and other questionable practices used by the growing for-profit higher education industry in th...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

UK: ISO draft standards for the development, manufacture and deployment of healthcare IT focus on SAFETY

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The UK's NHS has not had the best of success to date implementing national health IT, as indicated by reports here and here , for examp...
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Monday, August 09, 2010

2 Legal Settlements + 1 Corporate Integrity Agreement = $130 Million Retirement Package?

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Omnicare's Trail of Legal Settlements Last year, we discussed a $98 million settlement made by Omnicare, US based corporation that ma...
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Friday, August 06, 2010

Despite Scandal, Former UnitedHealth CEO was Ninth Best Paid CEO of the Decade

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A little while ago, the Wall Street Journal reported on the highest paid US corporate CEOs of the past decade.  One name stood out for thos...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Internal FDA memorandum of Feb. 23, 2010 to Jeffrey Shuren on HIT risks. Smoking gun? I report, you decide.

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From the aforementioned Huffington Post Investigative Fund article " FDA, Obama Digital Medical Records Team at Odds over Safety Overs...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

More on Huffington Post Investigative Fund: "FDA, Obama Digital Medical Records Team at Odds over Safety Oversight"

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Re: today's Huffington Post Investigative Fund article " FDA, Obama Digital Medical Records Team at Odds over Safety Oversight ....
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