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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Thursday, July 07, 2011

Being a Non-Profit Hospital CEO Means Never Having to Say You Are Sorry

When my arm was twisted heartily to see the movie "Love Story" a very long time ago, I could never understand why so many audience...

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Law firms as enablers of HIT experiments? Familiar law firm now regular reader of Healthare Renewal

It continues to amaze me that unregulated, unvetted healthcare information technology of unproven benefit and proven harm continues to sprea...

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Here Comes Your New Doctor, Brought to You By UnitedHealth

A long time ago, practicing physicians were mainly self-employed solo practitioners. As health care became more bureaucratic, physicians for...

Nice post-holiday story with a happy ending

Totally unrelated to medicine, but a nice post-holiday story with a happy ending as a break from our routine of grim news. Kitten rescue fro...

Sunday, July 03, 2011

BLOGSCAN: Forensic Statistics

Several interesting points are raised in the newsletter of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) in a post entitled ...

Friday, July 01, 2011

The Restless Shade of AHERF and the Return of Merger Mania: Highmark Tries to Buy Another Insurance Company, a Hospital System, a Medical School, and Physicians' Practices

Starting in the 1990s, as US health care became more commercialized, a wave of mergers lead to super-sized hospital systems, insurance compa...

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Hospital system has major computer breakdown with "resultant chaos"; patients not adversely affected (of course)

As mentioned on this blog numerous times. Healthcare IT outages never, but never , adversely affect patients in any manner whatsoever: Tra...

Electronic medication prescribing: The Magic Bullet Theory of IT-Enabled Transformation once again bites the dust in the real world of medicine

Computers once again are proving not to be the plug-and-play-panacea they've been made out to be in the complex world of medicine. The...

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

More Revelations About How Top Managers Prosper While Care-Giving Employees are Laid Off This Time Leads to Labor Strife

Last month, we discussed the contrast between executive compensation at Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMH), a small Californi...

Monday, June 27, 2011

CEO Compensation: Nothing to See Here, Just Move Along

An article in the Washington Post showed how uncomfortable executives of big corporations, including health corporations, are about making ...

Google is shutting down its cloud-based Google Health, a Personal Health Record service

Google is shutting down its cloud-based Google Health , a Personal Health Record service, by the end of the year. I wrote: " Who'da...

Babies' deaths spotlight safety risks linked to computerized systems

A new tragic case. (A second, earlier case of infant death was posted in March 2011 here ). See Baby's death spotlights safety risks...

Friday, June 24, 2011

Embedded Networks of Influence in Health Care: An Illustrative Case

At the 12th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), sponsored by Transparency International, one of the plenary sessions was devo...

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