The Pervasiveness of Health Care Corruption as Shown by Another Roundup of Legal Settlements

Legal settlements are one way to document unethical and even corrupt behavior by large health care organizations, even if they may not deter...

From a physician and former USAF air traffic controller/pilot on the state of healthcare IT

From a colleague, a physician and blogger and fellow AMIA member with an eclectic background, on the state of healthcare information technol...

In ECRI Institute's new 2014 "Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations", Healthcare IT is #1. (FDA: E-cigarettes are REALLY dangerous.)

The ECRI Institute in Pennsylvania ( https://www.ecri.org/About/Pages/default.aspx ) has had health IT as among the "Top Ten Healthcare...

Followup to "CMS does not have any information that supports or refutes claims that a broader adoption of EHRs can save lives"

At my April 16, 2014 post " CMS does not have any information that supports or refutes claims that a broader adoption of EHRs can save ...

Hypocrisy at the FDA: Let's regulate E-cigarettes ... E-medical records, E-medical ordering and related Bad Health IT? They get a gentleman's pass.

Bad health IT is defined at my Medical Informatics academic site ( http://cci.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/ ) as follows: Bad Healt...

Innumeracy at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

A physician participant in an American Medical Informatics Association listserv I subscribe to had some time ago commented that the CMS, in ...

American Board of Internal Medicine Quietly Discloses Some Conflicts of Interest

We recently discussed the American Board of Internal Medicine's exceedingly weak conflict of interest policy.  This came to light after...

A Tangled Web of Perversity by a Healthcare Company Owner - Subpoenaing Emails of Law Student Critics at NYU Law School, Where He is a Trustee

At Healthcare Renewal, we are largely calling for removal from healthcare of perverse managers and perverse management practices.  One of th...

Knee Deep in the Hoopla - "A Triumph of Medical Technology" Sans Evidence of Superiority from Published Randomized Double Blind Controlled Trials

With the publication of several new articles in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, the buzz about Sovaldi (sofosbuvir - Gilead...

CMS does not have any information that supports or refutes claims that a broader adoption of EHRs can save lives?

If this is true, the EHR hyper-enthusiasm problem is even worse than I believed. From the April 2014 newsletter of the American Association ...

Planned Obsolescence Disguised as Innovation, Oligopoly Disguised as a Free Market, and the Enrichment of Oligarchs

The New York Times published another article in its series on the high cost of US health care.  This one, focused on the care of type 1 di...