Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records

EHR utopian dreams have taken some pronounced hits in recent years. In recent months, the hyper-enthusiasts and their government allies hav...

Lahey Health: hospital jobs lost, but computer vendors prosper

At numerous posts on this blog I link to stories of health IT expense putting hospital financial stability at risk, e.g., " Monetary lo...

Say It Ain't So: Logical Fallacies in Defense of Conflicts of Interest ... in the New England Journal of Medicine?

Introduction We have been viewing with alarm the web of conflicts of interest draped over medicine and health care since we started Health C...

Why is the New England Journal of Medicine Scolding "Pharmascolds"? I, a normally quiet blogger on this site, was disquieted by wh...

BLOGSCAN - New England Journal of Medicine Scoffs at "Pharmascolds"

The venerable New England Journal of Medicine has now published an editorial,(1) and two commentaries(2-3), with one more promised, hailing ...

Apologies to All - Sitemeter Forced Redirect Problem Now Fixed

My apologies.  Starting yesterday I discovered that anyone attempting to view this blog was involuntarily transferred to a non-working URL, ...

All the President's Trade Negotiators - Revolving Doors, Regulatory Capture, and Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Agreements

This week's spectacle in Washington, DC was a nearly unanimous Democratic minority in the Senate blocking a proposal for expedited consi...