Blog e Hilmi 11.47 Add Comment generic managers, hospital systems Edit 60% of the CEOs of America's "Great Health Systems" Have No Educational Background in Health Care We have noted that US health care has been taken over by generic managers . A recent article about the CEOs of purportedly some of America... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 07.54 Add Comment CHF, clinical trials, Entresto, evidence-based medicine, manipulating clinical research, Novartis, sacubitril Edit Entresto: Blockbuster, or Just Over Hyped? - Whatever, It Will Cost $4500 a Year The newest drug for congestive heart failure, Entresto, a fixed combination of valsartan and sacubitril, has just hit the market at an eleva... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 06.42 Add Comment generic managers, ill-informed management, NHS, UK Edit What They Really Think of Us, UK Version - Health Secretary Derides NHS Doctors for Not Working Enough on Weekends A new story from the UK suggests what top leaders of health care really think about health care professionals. I realize that I risk showin... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 12.51 Add Comment AHIP, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, HCA, Medicare, revolving doors Edit Turn, Turn, Turn - from Columbia/ HCA Executive, to Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources, to Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to America's Healt Insurance Plans (AHIP) Marilyn Tavenner's career continues to revolve, er, evolve. Columbia/ HCA Marilyn Tavenner worked for Columbia / HCA, now HCA, although ... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 18.29 Add Comment boards of directors, conflicts of interest, executive compensation, mission-hostile management, Mylan, perverse incentives Edit Who Benefits? - Rising Generic Drug Prices and the Case of Mylan's Conflicted Property Purchases Rising Generic Drug Prices Health care costs in the US continue their seemingly inexorable rise. Even the parts of health care that used to... Read More
Blog e Hilmi 12.08 Add Comment Clinton Foundation, evidence-based medicine, Gilead, hepatitis C, Sovaldi Edit Bill Clinton, Paid to Speak to Biotech Conference, Extolled $1000 Pill to Prevent "Liver Rot," Despite Lack of Evidence that It Does What were they thinking? Former President Clinton Talkes to Pharma and Biotech Executives In mid June, 2015, the Philadelphia Inquirer repor... Read More