Health Care Renewal Bloggers to Teach Short Course on Why Physicians Do Not Make Rational, Evidence-Based Decisions

Health Care Renewal Bloggers to Teach Short Course on Why Physicians Do Not Make Rational, Evidence-Based Decisions

By Unknown at 8:48 AM

Health Care Renewal bloggers Dr Roy Poses and Dr Wally Smith will be teaching a short course on Sunday, October 23, 2016, at the annual Nor...

Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation

Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation

By Unknown at 9:07 AM

We do not write about health insurance and managed care as much as we used to.  Dysfunction in this area now gets much media attention. ...

The Haunting of CVS - by the Ghosts of Its, Caremark's, MedPartners' and HealthSouth's Past

The Haunting of CVS - by the Ghosts of Its, Caremark's, MedPartners' and HealthSouth's Past

By Unknown at 9:05 AM

In our brave new neoliberal world of commercialized health care, many US health care organizations are products of numerous mergers, acquis...

Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but "no medical information was looked at or compromised"

Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but "no medical information was looked at or compromised"

By Unknown at 7:51 AM

On this blog I have an entire series of posts regarding EHR crashes that point out an absurd-on-its-face and, in fact, insulting boilerplate...

Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios"

Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios"

By Unknown at 11:05 AM

A brief post.  In this new JAMA article by Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record http://jama.jamanetwork....

Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public

Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public

By Unknown at 10:34 AM

This is a case of education - I hope - by fire on electronic information security, and why "going electronic" can be a risky busin...

Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched?

Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched?

By Unknown at 7:14 AM

Some years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis, MD wrote this piece: " Why Most Published Research Findings Are False ", John P. A. Ioannidi...

Transparency International Asks Health Care Professionals About Health Care Corruption

Transparency International Asks Health Care Professionals About Health Care Corruption

By Unknown at 8:35 AM

Transparency International , the global NGO that studies and fights corruption, seeks information from health care professionals about healt...

How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar

How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar

By Unknown at 12:39 PM

Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...