Whom Can You Trust? - FTC Charges DeVry University, Sister School of American University of the Caribbean and Ross University Medical Schools, with Deceptive Marketing

Now there is another reason for Americans who aspire to medical careers to be concerned about applying to offshore medical schools. Introduc...

JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK

JAMA JUMPS THE SHARK Medical journals are supposed to promote professional values – scientific, social, and ethical. Quality matters, in eac...

Health Care Managers as Ever More Effective Value Extractors - Following Up on Novant Health and Cape Cod Healthcare

The ever increasing compensation of top managers of health care organizations provides incentives to continue business as usual.  We have f...

Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital Systems

We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician .  In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed ...

Death of EHR "Meaningul Use" imminent. (Hopefully the death of the 'National Programme for Health IT in the HHS' is imminent, too.)

I've written a number of posts on the Orwellian-named "Meaningful Use" experiment with electronic health records systems, impo...

Health Care Corruption Workshop Slides Now Online

Slides from the workshop entitled Defense Against the Dark Arts - Understanding and Challenging Health Care Corruption given by Dr Roy Pose...

Yet another observation that known health IT-caused injuries and deaths are "the tip of the iceberg"

I've noted a new observation of the limited data available on health IT harms being the (quote) " tip of the iceberg ." This s...

Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.

Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork. T...

Generic Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of (Sometimes Failed, or Bailed Out) Finance on the Board?

Introduction - Managerialism  We have frequently posted about what we have called generic management , the manager's coup d'etat , ...