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 Nort...
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09.07
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Aetna,
concentration of power,
deception,
executive compensation,
health insurance,
managed care organizations,
mergers
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Haunted by US Healthcare Inc - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullback in Apparent Retaliation for Government Anti-Trust Litigation
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. ...
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09.05
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bribery,
Caremark,
crime,
CVS,
deception,
fraud,
HealthSouth,
legal settlements
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The Haunting of CVS - by the Ghosts of Its, Caremark's, MedPartners' and HealthSouth's Past
In our brave new neoliberal world of commercialized health care, many US health care organizations are products of numerous mergers, acquis...
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07.51
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computer security,
Marin Medical Practice Concepts,
medical record confidentiality,
medical record privacy,
no information was looked at or compromised,
Patient care has not been compromised,
ransomware
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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"
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...
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11.05
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Abraham Verghese,
Donna M. Zulman,
healthcare IT deimplementation,
JAMA,
Stanford University
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Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record - "Deimplementing the EHR could actively enhance care in many clinical scenarios"
A brief post. In this new JAMA article by Stanford authors: Evolutionary Pressures on the Electronic Health Record http://jama.jamanetwork....
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10.34
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CNN,
computer security,
DCCC,
DNC,
Guccifer,
hacking,
medical record confidentiality,
medical record privacy
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Politicians get a very bitter taste of the very same medicine they've forced onto clinicians and the public
This is a case of education - I hope - by fire on electronic information security, and why "going electronic" can be a risky busin...
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07.14
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healthcare IT exceptionalism,
JAMA,
John P. A. Ioannidis,
Michael J. Joyner,
Nigel Paneth
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Ioannidis et al.: What Happens When Underperforming Big Ideas in Research [such as Healthcare IT Exceptionalism] Become Entrenched?
Some years ago, John P. A. Ioannidis, MD wrote this piece: " Why Most Published Research Findings Are False ", John P. A. Ioannidi...
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Transparency International Asks Health Care Professionals About Health Care Corruption
Transparency International , the global NGO that studies and fights corruption, seeks information from health care professionals about healt...
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12.39
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boards of directors,
Brookings Institution,
hepatitis C,
Johnson and Johnson,
revolving doors,
You heard it here first
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How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar
Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...
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