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Speakers at conference discuss impacts and possible solutions for deadly mistakes and near misses in hospitals
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5:15 PM
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Medical mistakes made in hospitals cause 98,000 deaths per year. Or four times that many? That is th...
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doctors
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health care
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Hospitals
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medical errors
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nurses
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physicians
The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System
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8:16 AM
The game is afoot again. A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
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anechoic effect
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concentration of power
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Continuum Health Partners
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hospital systems
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mergers
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Mismanagement
Executive Compensation as "Legal Corruption" - and the Continuing Example of the Troubles of Wake Forest Baptist
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9:25 AM
"Legal corruption" was the description of current executive compensation practices appearing , of all places, in the Wall Street ...
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executive compensation
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perverse incentives
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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
NYU Faculty Vote No Confidence in their President
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10:42 AM
Faculty at large American universities, in which most of the country's medical schools and teaching hospitals are embedded, are becoming...
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academic freedom
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accountability
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boards of trustees
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executive compensation
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free speech
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New York University
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transparency
Minimizing Legal Liability or Upholding the Mission? - the Markingson Case Redux
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12:04 PM
There are new, and troubling developments in the long running case of Dan Markingson, the psychiatric patient and research subject who commi...
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AstraZeneca
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atypical anti-psychotics
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conflicts of interest
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deception
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manipulating clinical research
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mission-hostile management
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research subjects
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University of Minnesota
More Cause for Hope - After Novartis Chairman's Rescinded Golden Parachute, Swiss Voters Give Control of Hired Executives' Salaries Back to Owners
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8:47 AM
Recently, we discussed the latest stupefyingly big golden parachute given to a departing pharmaceutical executive. Former Novartis CEO an...
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executive compensation
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government
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managers' coup d'etat
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Novartis
It is Harder to Run a Small Public Hospital System than California? - Deep Seated Myths and Logical Fallacies Underpinning Health Care Executive Compensation
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5:37 PM
Hospital executive compensation, the gift that keeps on giving... A Public Hospital CEO's Current Compensation A recent, somewhat obscu...
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executive compensation
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hospital systems
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imperial CEO
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On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
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...
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Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
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 ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
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...
Peering Underneath the Iceberg's Water Level: AMNews on the New ECRI "Deep Dive" Study of Health IT "Events"
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...