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From today’s Boston Globe,
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One more from the smart store, and it is good to see doctors finally being involved to a degree where they can be heard and make a difference. Hopefully both he and his brother, will be approved by the Senate and taxes are paid.  BD  

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First, bed sores, decubitus uclers, or pressure ulcers…..are all the same thing and they can be horrible and painful. Pressure sores can range from red areas on the surface of the skin (Stage I) to severe tissue damage that goes deep into muscle and bone (Stage IV). These sores are hard to treat and slow to heal. Other problems, such as bone, blood, and skin infections, can develop when pressure sores do not heal properly.

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In thinking further about the “hold harmless” and “defects gag clause” originated by Health IT vendors and agreed to by hospital executives as I described at Have Hospital Executives Violated Their Fiduciary Responsibilities by Signing Such Contracts?, I can state I feel a sense of (past) betrayal.

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Kaiser to cut 860 Health IT positions

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On the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, Dr Daniel Carlat discussed the mysterious disappearance of a report by the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) which recommended the end of commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME). The report was tabled, and is now no longer available on the AMA web-site. (Although, it has not completely vanished off the webs. See the comments on Dr Carlat’s post.) Meanwhile, the AMA has posted a series of “fact sheets” from their National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration which seem notably friendly to “collaboration” among educators and industry. Read the rest of this entry »

There doesnt appear to be any stimulus money going here.  This is the company who has the contract to produce the AIDS preventing condoms that are given out throughout the world.  This certainly doesnt sound like keeping jobs in the US at this location in Alabama. 

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Dear fellow physicians, nurses and other clinicians:

You thought frivolous medical malpractice suits were a problem?

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To the average consumer, this may be a bit confusing here, but the purchase of this company will add to the existing suite of software from Oracle to help provide the pharmaceutical business a better look at their business models and most of all drug safety.  Oracle was in the news this week providing its first every dividend, so this goes to show the business of collecting data in data base programs is not missing any steps and is alive and well, the information needs to be stored somewhere. 

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I thankfully, am in good health and don’t have many physician visits. I do however, have a loved one who spends hundreds of hours a year under direct physician care.

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