Through a Glass Darkly - How Can So Many Health Care Executives Be Visionaries?

Visionary (noun) 1 :   one whose ideas or projects are impractical :   dreamer 2 :   one who sees visions :   seer 3 :   one having unus...

A Real Example of Public Relations Talking Points to Justify Outsize Executive Compensation - and Why We Should No Longer be Fooled

We frequently discuss outsize executive compensation in health care organizations as both a symptom and a cause of these organizations'...

GlaxoSmithKline's Marketing Firm Promised "Clinical Trials Could be Your Solution" to Poor Graduate Students

We have frequently raised concerns about the increasing domination of clinical research, particularly clinical trials, by those with vested ...

$100 million Epic install dampens Lifespan Rhode Island Healthcare's credit

Lifespan Rhode Island Healthcare System's Siemens EHR was apparently causing thousands of electronically-generated prescriptions to beco...

Fourth Time is the (Anti)Charm? - UK NICE Highlights "Uncertainties in the Evidence Base" About Sovaldi

As we have discussed, ( here , here and here ), while anger continues to build about the $1000/ pill price sought by Gilead for its new ant...

Yet another EHR "glitch" - insulin decreased per protocol, oops, I meant heparin

Yet another EHR "glitch" ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/glitch ): http://www.labornotes.org/2013/07/electronic-medic...

Citizen's Council for Health Freedom: "The Truth about Electronic Health Records"

The Citizen's Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission "to protect health...

On the EHR-related term "cognitive overload"

I often use the term "cognitive overload" when writing about EHR and related information technology systems that present a needles...

At Merck's Urging, a Federal Judge Threatens to Sanction a Lone Professor for Trying to Reveal Evidence about Vioxx

We have written often, and most recently this week, about the limp posture taken by US law enforcement and regulatory agencies in the face...

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied? - Another Neurontin Settlement by Pfizer 20 Years After the Alleged Events

We have argued repeatedly against the strategy used by US government authorities to address allegations of bad behavior in health care (and ...