The Myth of the Tough Prosecutor as a Distraction from Health Care Corporate Executives' Impunity

The tragic case of the Boston Marathon bombing illustrates how myth making about tough law enforcement obscures the impunity enjoyed by top ...

Johns Hopkins: Thanks to EHRs, time with patients seems “squeezed out” of medical training, investigator says

Question:  Who would have thought it?  That there is yet another potentially deadly unintended consequence of bad health IT and health IT h...

WellPoint's Former Manager-Queen Got $20.6 Million and Its Nobility Got Millions

Score another for our new would be royalty, that is, for the hired managers who run big corporations.  Early this month a few scattered repo...

SILVERSTEIN v. ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: MOTION TO PROHIBIT COMMENTARY ABOUT THIS LITIGATION TO ANY PUBLIC CONTEXT: Do computers have more rights than patients?

Herein is an issue of potential Internet censorship and/or attempted prior restraint of the rights of a citizen to express him/herself fre...

Healthcare computing 'glitch' time again: 15 patients possibly given wrong antibiotic after lab error at Regina General Hospital

Just another computer " glitch ", that innocuous euphemism for a catastrophe-promoting IT defect, this time causing patients to re...

Guest Post: the Slow Grind of Justice

  Health Care Renewal presents a guest blog by Steve Lucas, a retired businessman who formerly worked in real estate and construction who...

Fred Schulte: "GOP senators call for overhaul of electronic health records program"

Fred Schulte, investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity ( link to bio ), has authored a new article worth reading in its ent...

Hospital defense maliciousness, aided and abetted by attorneys who ignore the ABA and Pennsylvania's Ethical Rules of Conduct Regarding "Candor Towards the Tribunal"

At Healthcare Renewal we've written of hospitals' deviations from the core mission of compassionate, ethical and safe patient care, ...

WALK THE WALK

WALK THE WALK For some time a jeremiad theme has been dominant in the psychiatric sector of the academic-industrial complex . Blockbuster ps...

Another Sign of Resistance? - Doctors Sue Hospital Systems Alleged to Put Money Ahead of Mission

In two recent instances, physician groups have filed lawsuits against hospital systems alleging that managers were directly putting revenue ...