Arguments with Pavlov's Dogs: Health IT Regulation Will "Harm Innovation"? How, exactly?

Health IT hyper-enthusiasts, when faced with the prospect of government regulations, react like Pavlov's dogs with the response " ...

Hospital Retaliation Against Outspoken Physician Reaches New Levels - La Cosa Nostra Levels, That Is

Physicians, take note: The Advisory Board Company Feb. 14, 2013   Hospital Framed Physician; Planted a Gun A jury has ordered a California h...

Peering Underneath the Iceberg's Water Level: AMNews on the New ECRI "Deep Dive" Study of Health IT "Events"

FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...

Another Reason for Hope? - Concern about Excessive Executive Pay in Health Care Goes Mainstream

Another recent case suggested that the problem of excess, disproportionate compensation of health care executives is becoming more of a mai...

Reason for Hope? - Novartis Rescinds Vasella's Golden Parachute

Enormous compensation of hired health care executives, out of all proportion, if related at all to whether their work had any positive effec...

From another happy EHR user: automatic data "corrections" that alter the past

From another happy EHR user: One of my patients was married in late 2012.   Her name changed from XXXX to YYYY. Today I incidentally reviewe...

EHRs and "Meaningful Use": Begging the Question in the New England Journal of Medicine

I used to have great respect for the New England Journal of Medicine. No more. That respect was reduced significantly in 2010 when I saw the...

It is Harder to Run a Small Public Hospital System than California? - Deep Seated Myths and Logical Fallacies Underpinning Health Care Executive Compensation

Hospital executive compensation, the gift that keeps on giving...  A Public Hospital CEO's Current Compensation A recent, somewhat obscu...

New York Times: "A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Industry"

The New York Times has published an article today by Julie Creswell entitled " A Digital Shift on Health Data Swells Profits in an Indu...

Are the health IT hyper-enthusiasts inept, or merely insane?

From a psychiatrist, partially in response to the article about me in Kaiser Health News , on the travails of health IT. They write: ... In ...

Another Revolving Door Variant: From Academia with Millions in Medtronic Royalties, to the White House, to the Health Care Service Corp

The revolving door spins, and where it will stop, nobody knows... In October, 2010, we noted questions about how Dr Stephen Ondra got to be ...

Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"

At my Dec. 2012 post " How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist...