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Here is some sense on healthcare IT from the European Union, echoing a number of themes I’ve written about at Healthcare Renewal and my academic site on HIT difficulties and failures.
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As reported by the Wall Street Journal, here is another reminder about just how bad the leadership of health care can be,
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About 3 weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with CEO Peter Von Dyck of e-Zassi and view a demonstration on how the software works, it was 
pretty impressive and quick with drilling down and finding the data. Todays press release notes they have now been selected a preferred provider. From the website from LifeScience below, you can see some pretty large corporations as members, as the organization is the largest in the Midwest of its type, specifically dedicated to bring medical device manufacturers and software together.
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This was nice, the tables were turned and I was interviewed! Why do I blog? The people at DiagnosisPR, the blog from Racepoint Group, a public 
relations agency were nice enough to dig in to what goes on at the Medical Quack and how it all got started, and a nice mention of a couple of my most memorable interviews with executives with Cook Medical and Microsoft and how I went from Sales to Marketing to Geek and and now I seem to do it all, life as a muti-tasking blogger. BD
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This is a recent press release with the numbers and statistics the group has accumulated over the last year, boosting primary care, electronic medical records and reducing the number of patients assigned to each physician. They hired more family practice doctors to help make the program work and appointments were extended from 20 to 30 minutes to be patient centric. BD
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We have tried to argue why comparative effectiveness research is a good idea. To cut and paste what I wrote in a previous post,
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This is a shame, and certainly makes a case for virtual colonoscopies too. This portion puzzled me as well to have one VA facility send their equipment 30 miles outsourced to another VA facility to sterilize, which every facility should have their own sterilizing facilities.
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We posted a number of times about questionable practices Eli Lilly used to market its atypical anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa (olanzapine). A post from 2007, with links backward, is here, and our most recent post is here. The company remains entangled in litigation over its marketing of this drug. That litigation has lead to the release of numerous internal documents that provide quite a view of Lilly’s marketing practices. Bloomberg continued its reporting on these documents, with its latest effort here via the Boston Globe, describing yet another surprising way this drug was sold:
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There may not be a policy, but Ill bet there are algorithms that calculate this, so what good does a policy do when the algorithms rule? Wall Street may have lacked policies too, but the algorithms ran 24/7. Its all about business intelligence software that provides the data on the screen for decision making processes. We really dont know what goes on as transparency is not a priority with the business unless someone happens to secure some documents that show otherwise.
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I am blessed to be one of the many Americans with Health Insurance. My company sends me periodic magazines on general health issues.