US Senate Subcommittee Asks What the RUC is About
It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the i...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
AMIA: Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of EHR systems, but ... no sympathy for victims of bad health IT?
A panel of experts from the American Medical Informatics Association have written a paper " Enhancing patient safety and quality of car...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Broken Promises: Latest HCA Settlement Suggests Skepticism about the Next Big Thing in Health Care
A long time ago in the US, most people got care from physicians who were self-employed, or part of physician partnerships. If they had to b...
How the HIT zealots and profiteers have harmed physicians and nurses, not to mention patients, taxpayers, and the government
Any new technology introduced into a complex system, especially when introduced recklessly, has the potential to produce unexpected conseque...
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Senator Stephen H. Martin of Virginia: proposed limitations on use, storage, sharing, & processing of electronic medical record data
Here's a politician who certainly seems concerned with the privacy and confidentiality and flawed-analysis downsides of electronic hea...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
How the "Revolving Door" and Other Aspects of Corporatism Benefited Amgen Just After its Settlement and Guilty Plea
At least here in these United States, our health care corporatism is bipartisan. Here we present a sorry story of how a company that should...
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