It Has Come to This? - Donald Trump's "Truly Absurd," "Word Salad," "Gibberish" Health Care Policy

Health Care Renewal is officially non-partisan.  We do not endorse candidates for office, or political parties.  That does not prevent us fr...

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At least former ONC chair Blumenthal now says "health IT can [even] cause safety issues." Other than that, it's unicorns and fairies in the Harvard Business Review.

The truth about healthcare IT, that it is perilously insecure, and is causing clinician despair and patient harm, is increasingly becoming m...

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Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly

Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executiv...

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Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow hacker invasion that cripples EHRs, disrupts clinicians ... but patient safety and confidentiality not compromised

To the cybernetic idealists out there who think computers are the greatest thing next to sliced bread in the healthcare environment, I say, ...

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Bio-Tech U, Version 2 - Current Board Member of Four Biotechnology Companies, Fomer Pfizer Director, Former Genentech Executive to be President of Stanford

Stanford University will soon have a new president.  According to the New York Times , Stanford University’s incoming president, Marc Tessie...

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The Rich (Hospital Managers) Get Richer - Carolinas Healthcare Raises Executive Compensation Once Again

It's that time of year again.  Carolinas Healthcare has made public its executive compensation, and once again, its CEO got a big raise,...

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