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In an article in the Bradenton Herald, Bradenton, FL, I found the following passage I bolded below truly striking:
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In May, we wondered what some hospital executives did to justify their munificent compensation. Now we have found out a little more.
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At “Academic Medicine Deploys a Logical Fallacy to Avoid Disclosing Inconvenient Truths” Roy Poses wrote about the illogic employed by academia to weaken draft rules for researchers to disclose conflicts of interest.
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We recently discussed a simultaneous retreat from aggressive regulation and enforcement applied to big health care corporations by US government agencies. Now a story published by Bloomberg (currently available without a subscription here on PharmaGossip) showed that the push for less disclosure of relationships with industry that generated conflicts of interest for academic medicine came not from industry, but from … academic medicine:
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The cybernetic miracle shamans are at it again:
IBM’s Watson set to tackle health insurance, takes ‘Diagnosis for $1,000′
via Engadget by Billy Steele on 9/12/11
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How the New York Times reported on a change in leadership at one New York medical school has made one issue of interest to Health Care Renewal a bit less anechoic. Here is the beginning of the story:
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Generous pay given to health care leaders has become an area of interest in the media. Some recent regional stories had a certain dreary sameness, however. It seems that nearly everywhere in the US, million dollar CEOs have become commonplace at non-profit hospitals and health care systems.
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The usual definition of a hospital is an institution which treats the sick and injured,. That is a messy business, so some hospital executives seem to yearn to be doing something a little more - shall we say - upscale. For example, the Chattanoogan reported:
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The article “Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta-narrative Method” by Greenhalgh, Potts, Wong, Bark and Swinglehurst at University College London appeared in the Dec. 2009 Milbank Quarterly. I wrote about it and quoted it at this post. A key statement: