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| Url: | http://www.hcrenewal.blogspot.com |
| Author(s): | Roy M Poses |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | science, health, ethics |
| Description: | Addressing threats to health care's core values, especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power. |
| Ratings |  (9 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 78 Followers |
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More Air Into the Health Care Bubble: the $30,000 a Month Cancer Drug
| Over four years ago, we posted about the stratospheric prices of new drugs that seemed disproportionate to manufacturing and development costs on one hand, and the value of the drugs for patients o...more |
2009-12-09
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Troubled £12bn NHS IT System to be Scaled Back: UK MP's Come to Their Senses on Health IT. Will t
| The UK National Programme for Health IT in the NHS, by the findings of the House of Commons Public Account audit committee, has been a £12bn debacle. Started as a starry-eyed utopian fantasy about...more |
2009-12-08
"Compensation Madness" - "Insiders Hijacking Established Institutions for their Perso
| As we learn more about the causes of the global financial melt-down, aka great recession, the lessons appear more applicable to health care. My latest example comes from last week's Wall...more |
2009-12-07
Pfizer CEO Now Acknowledges "We Need to be Straight with People"
| Even the CEO of the world's largest pharmaceutical company is now conceding that unethical behavior by large health care corporations has lead to trouble. As reported by The Day (New London, ...more |
2009-12-04
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The Health Care Bubble: Parallels with the Global Financial Meltdown
| The global financial melt-down, or great recession, or whatever it will be called was a big surprise in September, 2008, to those of us not immersed in finance. A year later there is an opport...more |
2009-12-03
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Healthcare IT Failure and The Arrogance of the IT Industry
| In the Wall Street Journal healthcare blog post "Safety Guru: ‘Health IT Is Harder Than It Looks’" here, reporter Jacob Goldstein reports on UC San Francisco hospitalist Bob Wachter's commentary th...more |
2009-12-03
Why We Have Federal Antidiscrimination Laws: Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos M. Cosgrove Would Proudly D
| The following stunning quote appeared in the Nov. 27, 2009 Newsweek article "The Hospital That Could Cure Health Care" about the Cleveland Clinic:[Cleveland Clinic president and CEO Dr. Delos M. Co...more |
2009-12-01
"We are unable to share documents relating to problematic EHR's as our contract with Cerner inc
| In my post "Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development" I reported on the Univ. of Sydney's somwehat belated support for academic freedom, and the reappear...more |
2009-12-01
How Industry Views the Research It Sponsors
| We have posted frequently about threats to the integrity of the clinical evidence-based, and to the practice of evidence-based medicine. In particular, we have discussed how research may be m...more |
2009-11-30
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More Evidence for Suppression of Research: the Case of Lamictal for Depression
| We recently discussed the severe challenges to evidence-based medicine presented by manipulation and suppression of clinical research to serve vested interests. I recently (and unfortunately ...more |
2009-11-27
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