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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration is creating a new system for patients to report medical mistakes because exi...

Labels: health transparency, Hospitals, malpractice, medical errors, medical ethics, physicians

Posted by Admin | 10:42 AM

For almost a decade, medical officials and experts claimed OxyContin rarely posed problems of addiction for patients. The drug's label, ...

Labels: doctor shopping, drug abuse, drugs, health journalism, medical ethics, newspapers, pain, pain clinics, physicians, prescription drug abuse, research

Posted by Admin | 11:35 AM

A recent article in a a relatively obscure medical ethics journal dared to approach some important aspects of medical ethics that medical et...

Labels: academic medical centers, anechoic effect, conflicts of interest, institutional conflicts of interest, medical ethics, medical schools, professionalism

Posted by Admin | 7:13 AM

HIMSS, the Health Information Systems Management Society , is the large vendor trade group representing healthcare IT sellers. At the HIMSS ...

Labels: and Cosmetic Act, BHIT, Carla M Smith, Drug, food, GHIT, healthcare IT risks, HIMSS, meaningful use, medical ethics, nuremberg code, President Obama

Posted by Admin | 5:55 AM

The Health Information Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) is the large health IT vendor trade group in the U.S.  At a Sept. 21, 2012 HIMSS...

Labels: FDA, healthcare IT risks, HIMSS, IOM, IOM Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology, John Casillas, medical ethics

Posted by Admin | 4:52 AM

I have not been writing much the past few weeks due to other concerns, and will probably not write much this summer. However, I have been co...

Labels: Healthcare IT experiment, In the Pipeline, medical ethics, sockpuppet, stealth marketing, Vioxx

Posted by Admin | 6:47 AM

My construct of the " Ddulite " orientation largely driving health IT is not merely a theoretical construct. Ddulites (derived fr...

Labels: Bill Toland, Ddulite, healthcare IT difficulties, healthcare IT risks, medical ethics, Nancy Finn

Posted by Admin | 2:38 PM

Holy Hippocrates... This is nihilism at its finest. This is what happens when "education" turns into madness. Infanticide of new...

Labels: infanticide, medical ethics, Oxford university

Posted by Admin | 7:19 AM

The following article's full text from the journal Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) is not freely available, but the abstract says al...

Labels: Adam Wright, Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI), Archana Laxmisan, dean sittig, healthcare IT difficulties, medical ethics