Health Science

An anonymous commenter to my blog post about the USA Today article on bad health IT ( http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/02/former-onc-direc...

Introduction - the Unhappy Lives of Whistleblowers The UK Times Higher Education Supplement just published a feature on the unhappy fate of...

EHRs and other clinical IT are touted as essential to improving safety, among many other benefits. Yet when hospital systems crash, the comm...

The Hepatitis C Spin Cycle Continues Since our last post in July, 2014 , about sofosbuvir (Sovaldi, Gilead), the $1000 pill proclaimed to be...

At my March 2, 2015 post " Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash ...

The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa continues to grow, and now appears to be the worst known epidemic of that disease to date.  In the U...

There comes a time when the pundits defending the status quo in the healthcare information technology sector and health IT utopianism simply...

In our most recent post , we noted the latest tragic, and gruesome development at Cooper Health System, the largest hospital system in south...

The First US Doctors' Strike in Decades A few news media outlets in California have reported on what has been up to now a very rare even...

Here's a new angle on how a healthcare organization might react to unfavorable press: Ban the sale of the newspaper in question from the...