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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 f...
A New ECRI Institute Study On Health Information Technology-Related Events
As I wrote here , I was a reviewer of the report in the PA-based, ECRI Institute-conducted study " The Role of the Electronic Health Re...
A Condemnation of Suppression of Medical Research... by Ben Goldacre in the New York Times
Amazingly, this topic now seems to be in the mainstream. The Goldacre Version in the New York Times in 2013 In his op-ed , Ben Goldacre intr...
US Senate Subcommittee Asks What the RUC is About
It has been a long time coming, but the issue of how the US Medicare and Medicaid system sets the fees it pays doctors, and hence sets the i...
Twilight of the Anechoic Effect? - New England Journal of Medicine Article Discusses Previously Taboo Topic of Bad Corporate Health Care Leadership
We have often complained of the anechoic effect , that the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal often do not seem to be considered top...
Dartmouth's Governance and Wall Street
While the money spent on health care in the US continues to increase, care becomes less accessible and its quality becomes more dubious. Mo...
Another Cautionary Tale about Conflicts of Interest: the CEO's Stretch Limousine, Golden Parachute, and Slush Fund
It remains fashionable in academic medicine to tolerate, if not celebrate conflicts of interest as necessary to support the "collaborat...
Will the Citigroup Ruling Challenge Health Care Leaders' Impunity?
A federal judge's refusal to approve yet another cozy settlement that was supposed to resolve allegations of wrong-doing by a giant corp...
The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Case as Illustrative of Problems with the Leadership of Health Care
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding... -
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
