Continuing Dissection of the Infamous Study 329

On the 1BoringOldMan blog, semi-anonymous blogger Mickey has been dissecting in detail the infamous Study 329 that GlaxoSmithKline used to p...

Is the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule invalid?

Here are a few reasonable questions I decided to elevate as a post of its own. In the face of the discovery of industry influence over comme...

Health IT Vendor EPIC Caught Red-Handed: Ghostwriting And Using Customers as Stealth Lobbyists - Did ONC Ignore This?

Note: Also see the followup Sept. 5, 2012 post " Was EPIC successful in watering down the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule? " at ...

Duchess of WellPoint Abdicates, Likely to Escape with Much Loot

A change in the leadership of one of the biggest health care organizations reveals a little more about how such leadership has become our ne...

Clinicians: How to Document the EHR Screens You Encounter That Cause Concern

Healthcare IT " glitches " as reported on this blog should make any clinician - and patient - wary of the technology in its presen...

A Tacit Admission That National Health IT is a Gargantuan Experiment

In my post yesterday " The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2 " I wrote: There's no truly robust evidence of ...

The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2: The NWB Methodology

The Final Rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been released.  It is at this link (PDF).  It is a mere 672 pages in length, a quick read dur...

Parallels Between the Anechoic Effect in Finance and in Health Care: Predator Nation by Charles Ferguson

What has gone wrong with health care now seems to be the same as what has gone wrong with finance, and society at large.  This was not alway...

Health IT Amateurs, Logical Fallacy and Hospital Leadership: An Inhibitor to Good Health IT

An excellent three-part article on local providers' efforts to "join the electronic medical record/clinical IT movement", inc...

Will Another Study on Physician Burnout Finally Lead to Addressing its Causes?

The latest article on physician burnout has actually attracted some media attention.  e.g., here and here . The Latest Article The article ...

From the University of Chicago EHR Helpdesk Call Line

I was alerted this morning (Aug. 23rd) to this message currently in the telephone message of the CBIS [Chicago Biomedicine Information Servi...

BLOGSCAN: Key Opinion Leader Admits to being a Marketer

Without any notable shame, and as a guest blogger on KevinMd.  The post was about other physicians can become big-time KOLs by using social...

An Even Bigger Golden Parachute for Captain Outrageous

In 2009, I first posted about the amazingly colorful leadership and governance problems at a small hospital system in Massachusetts.  Backg...