Pfizer May No Longer be Able to Delay Paying Its Asbestos Claims of Nearly $1 Billion

Pfizer, which claims to be the "world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company," is one step closer to paying a nearly ...

Shut Up and Sell - the Corporate Physician's New Motto?

Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...

Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement

More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement: 1.  Layoffs to balance the budget... http://www.news-record.com...

No Blues, but Lots of Green for St Louis Hospital System CEOs

A recent article in the St Louis Post Dispatch provided the latest examples of how hospital executive compensation continues to defy grav...

Affinity RNs Call for Halt to Flawed Electronic Medical Records System Scheduled to Go Live Friday

At my May 30, 2013 post " Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients ....

"Computer problems" force docs back to paper charts at Memorial Hospital - From June 11 until at least June 24?

More on the wonders and dependability of commercial health IT, as implemented in hospitals, which are generally an IT backwaters: ...

A Call to Restore the Integrity of Clinical Research - but Will Anyone Heed it?

Concerns about suppression and manipulation of clinical research to serve vested interests have finally gotten a little more mainstream. B...

PROFESSOR NEMEROFF GOES TO LONDON

THREE STRIKES AND … Professor Charles Nemeroff is being honored today in London. He will deliver a high profile lecture at the Institute of ...

IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure

Received unsolicited on June 14, 2013 from a computer professional whose identity I am redacting.  Posted with his permission: Dr. Silverste...