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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Friday, April 11, 2014

Healthcare IT Amateur Kathleen Sebelius Resigns - Good Riddance

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is resigning. Press reports say she is resigning in large part due...

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

FDA on health IT risk: reckless, or another GM-like political coverup? "We don't know the magnitude of the risk, and what we do know is the tip of the iceberg, but health IT is of 'sufficiently low risk' that we don't need to regulate it."

In my Sept. 16, 2013 post "An Open Letter to David Bates, MD, Chair, ONC FDASIA Health IT Policy Committee on Recommendations Against...

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Finally, An Article in a Large Circulation Medical Journal with Systematic Data about Leaders of Academic Medicine Conflicted by their Service on Health Care Corporate Boards

Background - a New Species of Conflict of Interest Since 2006 , we have posted repeatedly about what was then a new species of severe co...

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

No Fooling - When a Retired Conservative Politician Warns About Oligarchy...

then things must be getting really bad. Of course, we have been warning about oligarchy , and related issues such as concentration of powe...

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Too Good to be True - Sovaldi Kerfuffle Focuses on Price, While Ignoring Limits of Evidence about Effectiveness and Safety

There seems to be rising skepticism about the prices we pay for the latest drugs, devices, and health care programs, especially in the US. ...

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Bad Health IT: "People Aren’t Educated on How to Use the Internet"

The ultimate "blame the user" excuse for bad health IT comes from, of all places, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Washington...

James Fallows - The Atlantic - "The Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Health Care"

James Fallows , a national correspondent for The Atlantic, wrote "The Use and Misuse of Information Technology in Health Care: Several ...

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

This EHR "glitch" killed three-year-old Samuel Starr - but patient safety was not compromised

Actually, safety was compromised. I have written repeatedly that the term "glitch", an often-seen euphemism (usually accompanied...

Turnabout is Fair Play - Why University of Illinois Students, Faculty and Alumni Should Question the Dean of Medicine about Novartis' Ethical Misadventures

Since 2006, we have posted repeatedly about what was then a new species of severe conflicts of interest. This occurred when leaders of aca...

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