Our Policy Is To Always Have Unabashed Faith In The Computer ... Except When It Screws Up, And Then It's The Doctor's Fault

Healthcare IT such as electronic medical records (EMR/EHR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are a perfected, safe techn...

Our Policy Is To Always Have Unabashed Faith In The Computer ... Except When It Screws Up, And Then It's The Doctor's Fault 2015-05-21T18:50:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

A Small Echo of the Case of the Adulterated Heparin

A small news item published by Bloomberg is a reminder of a serious case that was never resolved: Baxter International Inc., which recall...

A Small Echo of the Case of the Adulterated Heparin 2015-05-14T21:39:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Meaningfully Experimental Protocols and Interfaces to Nowhere? Nagging Questions On Healthcare IT Remain

Despite a massive push in our (yet-unnamed) U.S. national program for health IT in the past year (which I shall christen as the NPfIT in the...

Meaningfully Experimental Protocols and Interfaces to Nowhere? Nagging Questions On Healthcare IT Remain 2015-05-14T21:28:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Health IT Caused Death & Injury, Extent Unknown, But Regulation Bad Since it Would Slow Government's Campaign To Spur Widespread Adoption

[Note: the hyperlinks in this posting are very informative, so do check them - ed.] A workgroup of the Healthcare IT Policy Committee, a f...

Health IT Caused Death & Injury, Extent Unknown, But Regulation Bad Since it Would Slow Government's Campaign To Spur Widespread Adoption 2015-05-13T00:53:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Third-Party Reviews of Medical Devices Come Under Scrutiny at the FDA - Except Healthcare IT Medical Devices, Which Get Special Accommodation

This WSJ article caught my eye: Third-Party Reviews of Devices Come Under Scrutiny at the FDA March 15, 2010 By ALICIA MUNDY and JARED...

Third-Party Reviews of Medical Devices Come Under Scrutiny at the FDA - Except Healthcare IT Medical Devices, Which Get Special Accommodation 2015-05-12T23:42:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Does the Award for the Most Risible Statement Made by a Health IT Vendor Belong to EPIC?

It may, because I am hard pressed to find any statement that approaches this one in vacuousness. Regarding reporting of healthcare IT prob...

Does the Award for the Most Risible Statement Made by a Health IT Vendor Belong to EPIC? 2015-05-12T18:47:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Genzyme Settles

In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to pat...

Genzyme Settles 2015-05-11T00:48:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

An Attempt to Hold Health Care Leaders Accountable for Their Organizations' Bad Behavior?

We have frequently noted how health care organizations accused of kickbacks, fraud, and other unethical and sometimes illegal behavior invo...

An Attempt to Hold Health Care Leaders Accountable for Their Organizations' Bad Behavior? 2015-05-10T23:57:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

Prosecuting Doctors for Importing IUDs from Canada, but Still No Penalties for Selling Adulterated Heparin from China

Here in Rhode Island, the big health care story recently was the use of unapproved intra-uterine devices (IUDs) by some local obstetrician-g...

Prosecuting Doctors for Importing IUDs from Canada, but Still No Penalties for Selling Adulterated Heparin from China 2015-05-07T18:44:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

More About What We Don't Know About the Contaminated Heparin from China

We last blogged about the case of Baxter International's adulterated heparin here .  (For a more detailed summary of the case, look here...

More About What We Don't Know About the Contaminated Heparin from China 2015-05-06T22:09:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown