The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System

The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System

By Unknown at 2:14 PM

Physicians are sworn to provide the best possible care to each individual patient.  Yet in the US, physicians increasingly practice as emplo...

"The Scourge of Managerialism" - Generic Management, the Manager's Coup D'Etat, Mission-Hostile Management Rolled Up, as Described by Some Men from Down Under

"The Scourge of Managerialism" - Generic Management, the Manager's Coup D'Etat, Mission-Hostile Management Rolled Up, as Described by Some Men from Down Under

By Unknown at 2:48 PM

I just found an important article that in the June, 2015 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia(1) that sums up many of ways the leadersh...

Phooled Again - More Settlements Suggesting Bad Behavior by Big Pharma/ Biotech

Phooled Again - More Settlements Suggesting Bad Behavior by Big Pharma/ Biotech

By Unknown at 11:09 AM

Once again, here is a roundup of cases showing big multi-national pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are up to their usual tricks. P...

Fatal Fraud? - More Settlements by Commercial Hospices of Allegations They Enrolled Non-Terminal Patients

Fatal Fraud? - More Settlements by Commercial Hospices of Allegations They Enrolled Non-Terminal Patients

By Unknown at 5:40 PM

Introduction - Commercialized Hospices We have occasionally written about the rise of the commercialized hospice industry, and concerns tha...

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

By Unknown at 12:39 PM

The important conflicts of interest generated when academic health care leaders also serve on the boards of directors of for-profit health ...

Cambridge University Hospitals Trust IT Failures: An Open Letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Repeated EHR Failures, Even After £12.7bn Wasted in Failed NHS National IT Programme

Cambridge University Hospitals Trust IT Failures: An Open Letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Repeated EHR Failures, Even After £12.7bn Wasted in Failed NHS National IT Programme

By Unknown at 11:29 AM

Dear Queen Elizabeth, I am an American citizen who has written for years about healthcare information technology mismanagement (IT malpracti...

Turn That Door Around - A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA

Turn That Door Around - A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA

By Unknown at 5:28 PM

It seems to be the season of the revolving door in health care.  The latest version got some media attention, because it involves one of t...