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Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered....
Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. The new ICD-10 coding system they must now use has codes like...
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Yet another observation that known health IT-caused injuries and deaths are...
I've noted a new observation of the limited data available on health IT harms being the (quote) "tip of the iceberg."This statement appears in "Electronic Health Record–Related Events in Medical...
View ArticleHealth Care Corruption Workshop Slides Now Online
Slides from the workshop entitled Defense Against the Dark Arts - Understanding and Challenging Health Care Corruption given by Dr Roy Poses and Dr Wally Smith at the Physicians for a National Health...
View ArticleDeath of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National...
I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, imposed upon United States physicians by the Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleNot Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize,...
We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician. In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed countries, physicians increasingly practice as employees of...
View ArticleHealth Care Managers as Ever More Effective Value Extractors - Following Up...
The ever increasing compensation of top managers of health care organizations provides incentives to continue business as usual. We have frequently discussed executive compensation for top health care...
View ArticleJAMA JUMPS THE SHARK
JAMA JUMPS THE SHARKMedical journals are supposed to promote professional values – scientific, social, and ethical. Quality matters, in each of these domains. Lately, however, highly ranked journals...
View ArticleWhom Can You Trust? - FTC Charges DeVry University, Sister School of American...
Now there is another reason for Americans who aspire to medical careers to be concerned about applying to offshore medical schools.IntroductionAdmission to US medical schools is increasingly difficult....
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HIMSS 2016 Presentation: Plaintiff's Lawyers Are The Cause of EHR Problems....
In perhaps the most ill-informed, perverse rationalization/defense of bad health IT I've seen to date, the following appeared in an article about an upcoming HIMSS presentation (Healthcare Information...
View ArticleThe Rich (Hospital Managers) Get Richer - Carolinas Healthcare Raises...
It's that time of year again. Carolinas Healthcare has made public its executive compensation, and once again, its CEO got a big raise, and many other executives made more than a million dollars. And...
View ArticleBio-Tech U, Version 2 - Current Board Member of Four Biotechnology Companies,...
Stanford University will soon have a new president. According to the New York Times,Stanford University’s incoming president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has developed a career that successfully melds...
View ArticleHollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow...
To the cybernetic idealists out there who think computers are the greatest thing next to sliced bread in the healthcare environment, I say, pray you are not on the operating table when something like...
View ArticleHo-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by...
Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executives. Columnist Gretcher Moregenson wrote on February 6, 2016 in...
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At least former ONC chair Blumenthal now says "health IT can [even] cause...
The truth about healthcare IT, that it is perilously insecure, and is causing clinician despair and patient harm, is increasingly becoming mainstream. For example, seen at the eclectic, widely read,...
View ArticleIt Has Come to This? - Donald Trump's "Truly Absurd,""Word Salad,""Gibberish"...
Health Care Renewal is officially non-partisan. We do not endorse candidates for office, or political parties. That does not prevent us from commenting on policy issues, and on pronouncements and...
View ArticleTrumped Up "Nutritional" Products - A Cautionary Tale of Immediate Relevance
On Health Care Renewal, we frequently discuss deceptive marketing schemes designed to sell tests and treatments whose benefits for patients do not clearly outweigh their harms, and sometimes which are...
View ArticleGeneric Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of...
Introduction - Managerialism We have frequently posted about what we have called generic management, the manager's coup d'etat, and mission-hostile management. Managerialism wraps these concepts up...
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