Health Care Renewal Bloggers to Teach Short Course on Why Physicians Do Not Make Rational, Evidence-Based Decisions Agustus 31, 2016 +0 evidence-based medicine evidence-based medicine
Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation Agustus 25, 2016 Aetna concentration of power deception +2 executive compensation health insurance managed care organizations mergers Aetna concentration of power deception executive compensation health insurance managed care organizations mergers
The Haunting of CVS - by the Ghosts of Its, Caremark's, MedPartners' and HealthSouth's Past Agustus 18, 2016 bribery Caremark crime CVS deception fraud HealthSouth + legal settlements bribery Caremark crime CVS deception fraud HealthSouth legal settlements
Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but "no medical information was looked at or compromised" Agustus 16, 2016 computer security +4 Marin Medical Practice Concepts medical record confidentiality medical record privacy no information was looked at or compromised Patient care has not been compromised ransomware computer security Marin Medical Practice Concepts medical record confidentiality medical record privacy no information was looked at or compromised Patient care has not been compromised ransomware
Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios" Agustus 15, 2016 Abraham Verghese Donna M. Zulman +1 healthcare IT deimplementation JAMA Stanford University Abraham Verghese Donna M. Zulman healthcare IT deimplementation JAMA Stanford University
Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public Agustus 15, 2016 CNN computer security DCCC DNC +2 Guccifer hacking medical record confidentiality medical record privacy CNN computer security DCCC DNC Guccifer hacking medical record confidentiality medical record privacy
Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched? Agustus 15, 2016 healthcare IT exceptionalism JAMA John P. A. Ioannidis Michael J. Joyner + Nigel Paneth healthcare IT exceptionalism JAMA John P. A. Ioannidis Michael J. Joyner Nigel Paneth
Transparency International Asks Health Care Professionals About Health Care Corruption Agustus 12, 2016 health care corruption surveys + Transparency International health care corruption surveys Transparency International
How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar Agustus 10, 2016 boards of directors Brookings Institution +2 hepatitis C Johnson and Johnson revolving doors You heard it here first boards of directors Brookings Institution hepatitis C Johnson and Johnson revolving doors You heard it here first