Blog Profile / Health Care Renewal
| URL : | http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Industries / Medical | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1464 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.1 | |
| Archived Since: | November 10, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
PROFESSOR NEMEROFF GOES TO LONDON
THREE STRIKES AND … Professor Charles Nemeroff is being honored today in London. He will deliver a high profile lecture at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, a component of The University of London. IoP and its associated Maudsley Hospital have long been at the forefront of psychiatric research in Britain. Show More Summary
IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure
Received unsolicited from a computer professional whose identity I am redacting: Dr. Silverstein, Thank you very much for the many insights and helpful references provided on your "Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics" (http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/cases/)...Show More Summary
The Financialized Medical Center - Executives of Non-Profit Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Make an "Investor Call," but Have no Investors
We recently discussed the uncomfortable situation of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the non-profit health system/ academic medical center of Wake Forest School of Medicine. The organization suffered acute monetary losses after a problem plagued roll out of its new electronic health record. Show More Summary
A Legal Settlement of One Aspect of the Fall of AHERF, Only 15 Years Later
It only took 15 years, but litigation related to one of the most important, but obscure cases of bad health care leadership and governance from the 1990s was finally settled. Background The Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation (AHERF) was a large integrated health care system formed out of multiple mergers. Show More Summary
Is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a Charity or a Venture Capital Firm?
We have often discussed how health care organizations now seem prone to diversion from their stated missions, often when money is the object. While the organizations in question are frequently academic, teaching hospitals, academic medical...Show More Summary
Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to Light
In May, David Willman writing for the Los Angeles Times broke a story of a somewhat new variant on the conflict of interest theme, one that has not gotten a lot of attention, but should.The issue was medical, with a twist, - how to best...Show More Summary
Want to help a hospital go bankrupt? Get a bad EHR - Westchester hospitals' sale price over $54 million, Hospitals' debt about $200M
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on June 3, 2013 - Sound Shore Medical Center (New Rochelle, NY) is filing for bankruptcy protection:Montefiore Medical Center is offering to buy Sound Shore Health System for $54 million plus furniture...Show More Summary
Is the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Really More Industry-Centered?
One of the biggest reasons our health care system seems so dysfunctional is that clinicians and patients have great difficulty determining what might be the appropriate management of particular clinical problems. Due to endless and sometimes...Show More Summary
Marin General Hospital's Nurses are Afraid a Defective EMR Implementation Will Harm or Kill Patients .. CEO Cites Defective HHS Paper and Red Herrings As Excuse Why He Knowingly Allows This To Continue
The following appeared in the Marin County Independent Journal about an EHR system so bad the nurses at Marin General Hospital were publicly complaining, putting their careers at risk (see my May 17, 2013 post "Marin General Hospital...Show More Summary
Ghosts in the Criminal Machine - How a Drug Company Can Plead Guilty to Federal Fraud, Yet No One is Held Responsible
We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions. A recent, slightly obscure story shows how a corporate admission of guilt to a felony can be used to prevent anyone,...Show More Summary
The Best Governance for Medicine ... is in Thailand
The Best Health Care System in the World? Here in the US, a lot of people have been convinced that we have the best health care system in the world. For example, during the 2012 US presidential campaign, Politi-Fact reported,House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says the health care law signed by President Barack Obama -- and upheld by the U.S. Show More Summary
Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - and the Continuing Example of the Troubles of Wake Forest Baptist
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing, of all places, in the Wall Street Journal. The arguments, by Henry Mintzer of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, apply...Show More Summary
Marin General Hospital nurses warn that new computer system is causing errors, call for time out
- Posted on the Healthcare Renewal Blog May 17, 2013 - Of course, the ever-present euphemism for life-threatening EHR malfunctions and defects, i.e., "glitches" are the cause:Marin General Hospital nurses warn that new computer system...Show More Summary
AMA finally on board with EHR views expressed on this blog since 2004
- Posted on the Healthcare Renewal Blog May 17, 2013 - It seems to have taken awhile, but organized medicine seems to finally be recognizing that today's commercial health IT is not quite the revolutionizing, transformative, plug-and-play...Show More Summary
C R Bard Settles Allegations of Kickbacks to Promote Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer
Screening for and aggressive treatment of prostate cancer has become an enormously lucrative business, if not necessarily a life-saving medical strategy. The minimal media coverage of a recent settlement suggests that at least to some...Show More Summary
Six Years Later, Ranbaxy - Oops, Daiichi Sankyo - Pleads Guilty to Adulteration, Pays $500 Million
It only took until 2013, but the US Food and Drug Administration finally secured guilty pleas and fines. The basics are in an Associated Press story (via the Washington Post): A subsidiary of India’s largest pharmaceutical company has...Show More Summary
Clouded "Visionary" Leadership - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's EPIC "Business Cycle Disruptions"
A typical excuse for the multi-million dollar compensation now enjoyed by many leaders of health care organizations is these leaders' supposed brilliance.For example, in 2011 we noted that the total compensation of Dr John McConnell,...Show More Summary
Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"
Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at University of Texas - Medical Branch at Galveston, and blogger at Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma. Show More Summary
Tales of the Wayfaring Generic Manager - from Ritz Carlton Hotels to Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital to Cancer Treatment Centers of America
In 2006, we wondered what a former hotel manager, Mr Gerard van Grinsven, admittedly known for putting the "wow" back in the Detroit Ritz-Carlton, would be doing as a hospital CEO. This seemed at the time like a real "wow" example of how generic managers were taking over health care. Show More Summary
BLOGSCAN - An Ex-Pharmaceutical Company CEO to Run the American College of Cardiology?
Marilyn Mann's blog discussed the appointment of a former pharmaceutical company executive, most recently at Actelion, and previously at Hoffman La Roche, Abbott Canada, Nordic Labs and Marion Merrill Dow (now known as Aventis), as president of the American College of Cardiology. Show More Summary