Blog e Hilmi 10.44 Add Comment Edit Times: American boards are exceptional--and not necessarily in a good way The recent New York Times piece on the behavior of (mainly for-profit, but by extension...) US organizations' boards of directors, goe... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 13.47 Add Comment CIO magazine, healthcare IT dangers, healthcare IT dissatisfaction, healthcare IT usability, healthcare IT utopianism Edit Opinion, CIO Magazine: "The medical profession needs to get over its fear of information technology"- their complaints bogus There comes a time when the pundits defending the status quo in the healthcare information technology sector and health IT utopianism simply... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 13.53 Add Comment anechoic effect, AstraZeneca, atypical anti-psychotics, clinical trials, conflicts of interest, manipulating clinical research, research subjects, suppression of medical research, University of Minnesota Edit Two New Independent Reports on the Death of Dan Markingson, But Now What Will Happen? Years after his death, there is now a little more clarity about the clinical trial in which Dan Markingson was enrolled when he died. Wheth... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 12.06 Add Comment generic managers, Jeffrey Romoff, UPMC Edit A $6.6 Million CEO Dreams of a "Doctor-Less" Future The CEO of giant hospital system UPMC, Mr Jeffrey Romoff, has been one of the best compensated CEOs of ostensibly non-profit hospital system... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 12.11 Add Comment adulterated drugs, adverse effects, Alex Gorsky, crime, deception, Johnson and Johnson, legal settlements, manufacturing problems, William Weldon Edit Same Old, Same Old - Johnson and Johnson Settles Charges it Concealed Adverse Effects of Risperdal, Vaginal Mesh Device, Pleads Guilty to Selling Adulterated Tylenol, Announces CEO Got 48% Raise to $25 Million We have devoted a lot of bytes over the years to the stream of allegations and ethical questions about Johnson and Johnson , the giant pharm... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 11.09 Add Comment forbes, health affairs, healthcare IT difficulties, healthcare IT risks, HealthcareDive.com Edit Increasing Bad Press for Today's Healthcare Information Technology - Deserved and Overdue Here are three candid, quite revealing articles about the distaste for today's health IT that appeared recently. I will address each, T... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 10.25 Add Comment ecri institute, healthcare IT risks, HIMSS, Ronni Solomon, William Marella Edit An ironically titled session by ECRI Institute: "Would You Bet Your Mother's Life on the Safety of Your EHR?" An ironically titled session by ECRI Institute "Would You Bet Your Mother's Life on the Safety of Your EHR?" is being held at... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 20.35 Add Comment generic management, generic managers, market fundamentalism Edit Health Care Run by Those "Who See the Practice of Medicine as a Set of Economic Transactions," or as a "Moral Endeavor?" Calls are getting louder for restoring medicine and health care as a calling that puts patients first, versus a business that puts money fir... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 12.51 Add Comment Ebola virus, generic management, generic managers, public relations, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, Texas Health Resources Edit A "PR Pawn" Confounds the Public Relations Burnishing of Texas Health Resources and its CEO The Ebola virus epidemic in Africa is hopefully winding down. The uproar, if not panic, over Ebola virus in the US has been eclipsed by the... Read More