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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 Hos...
Health Care Renewal
Monday, June 17, 2013
IT Specialist and the job he wouldn't take: hospital management's health IT "plan" is a checklist for failure
Received unsolicited on June 14, 2013 from a computer professional whose identity I am redacting. Posted with his permission:Dr. Silverstein,Thank you very much for the many insights and helpful references provided on your "Contemporary Is...
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Monday, June 17, 2013
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 proble...
Health Care Renewal
Thursday, June 13, 2013
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 ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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 ...
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Monday, June 10, 2013
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 treat a biote...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013
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 furnitu...
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Monday, June 03, 2013
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 sometime...
Health Care Renewal
Friday, May 31, 2013
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
- Posted at the Healthcare Renewal Blog on May 30, 2013 - 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 ...
Health Care Renewal
Thursday, May 30, 2013
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, ...
Health Care Renewal
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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