April, 2019, Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime?
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 28, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture Source Type: blogs
The Rise of Ideologically or Theologically Based Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy - Recent Examples
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 21, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: evidence-based medicine health policy public health vaccines Source Type: blogs
The HIV Epidemic, and Now the Measles Outbreak: The Russian Connection
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 13, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: disinformation Donald Trump HIV propaganda public health Russia Source Type: blogs
First the NIH Came for the Iranian Born Legal US Resident Scientists
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 5, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Donald Trump mission-hostile management NIH Source Type: blogs
Why Did the Head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Outsource Communications Functions to Private Public Relations Firms? - Ethical and Legal Questions
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Source: Health Care Renewal - April 4, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: CMS conflicts of interest DHHS Donald Trump First Amendment propaganda public relations Source Type: blogs
Despite Public Protestations of of Bipartisanship, Many CEOs of the Largest US Health Care Corporations Appear Partisan, and Mainly Republican
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Source: Health Care Renewal - March 28, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Abbott Amgen Bristol-Myers-Squibb conflicts of interest CVS deception Donald Trump Eli Lilly Gilead Merck mission-hostile management Pfizer Source Type: blogs
The Transparency International 2018 Corporate Political Engagement Index- Pharma Appears All Too Comfortable with the Revolving Door and Making Opaque Political Contributions
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Source: Health Care Renewal - March 21, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: AstraZeneca conflicts of interest dark money deception GlaxoSmithKline Johnson and Johnson Novartis Pfizer revolving doors Roche Shire Source Type: blogs
For Whom the Door Revolves: Founder and Director of Multiple Biotechnology Companies Became Director of the NCI and Now Nominated to be Acting Commissioner of the FDA
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Source: Health Care Renewal - March 15, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: biotechnology conflicts of interest FDA NIH regulatory capture revolving doors Source Type: blogs
Another Missing Link Discovered: 1969 IRS Rule Change Allowed US Hospitals to Discriminate Among Patients Based on Ability to Pay
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Source: Health Care Renewal - March 7, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: health care reform health policy hospitals mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs
Don't Know Much About Health Care and Public Health: Politicans' and Pundits' Unjustified Statements About Causation, Benefits and Risks
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Source: Health Care Renewal - March 3, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: ill-informed management logical fallacies public health vaccines Source Type: blogs
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - from a Yale scientist sadly all too familiar to this author
You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first.In 2005 and 2007 I ' d written the posts:"Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indigenous Peoples: The Genographic Project" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-abuses-in-biomedicine-vs.html)and"Informed consent, exploitation and developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/07/informed-consent-and-developing-snp.html)respectively.The theme of these posts was that genetics research (especially that centering on profiling) by unscrupulous scientists could have unforeseen, adverse (if not devastating) consequences to...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Allele Frequency Database China genetics Kelsang Dolma Kenneth Kidd Uighurs Yale Yale Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Revolving Door Spins Again: the Now Constant Coziness Between the Health Care Industry and US Government
Just because Washington DC is now crazy town does not mean the revolving door has stopped spinning. We have been dutifully accumulating cases, so it is time to present our latest update.I will divide this into two sections 1) the incoming revolving door, through which come people from the health care industry to enter US government positions in which they may influence health care regulation or policy relevant to their former positions; and 2) the outgoing revolving door, through which go people from US government positions in which they influenced health care regulation or policy to industry positions which were rel...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 22, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: DHHS Donald Trump FDA revolving doors Source Type: blogs
How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
In the early 21st century, the debate about health care reform in the US ramped up. The result ultimately was thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, ACA, " Obamacare " ), which arguably improved access to health care, made some reforms in the regulation of health care insurance, but did not affect the fundamental reliance of the US on employer-paid, for-profit health care insurance to finance health care for many patients. Nor did it really affect the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal (lookhere for details).After the tumultuous election of President Donald Trump, the debate started up agai...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 14, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: dark money disinformation health care reform logical fallacies ppaca propaganda stealth health policy advocacy Source Type: blogs
Watching the Detectives: Logical Fallacies and Unsubstantiated Claims to Denigrate Investigations of Leaders' Conflicts of Interest and Alleged Corruption
DiscussionSo here is one example, one anecdote, showing, in my humble opinion, an extreme case of illogical, unsupported argumentation in defense of our current president against multiple credible allegations of conflicts of interest and corruption. These allegations should concern anyone who cares about conflicts of interest and corruption in health care, because the presidency sets the tone for the whole country, and up to now, the executive branch of the US government provided the most and best resources for preventing and challenging conflicts of interest in health care. Obviously, these allegations should ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 30, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest disinformation Donald Trump health care corruption logical fallacies propaganda Source Type: blogs
Retaliation against physicians reporting EHR flaws that cause use errors? Physicians subpoenaed in Rhode Island, allegedly after reporting EHR risks
It appears that way to my eye. First, on use errors (as opposed to user errors from carelessness):“Use error” is a term used very specifically by NIST to refer to user interface designs that will engender users to make errors of commission or omission. It is true that users do make errors, but many errors are due not to user error per se but due to designs that are flawed, e.g., poorly written messaging, misuse of color-coding conventions, omission of information, etc. From"NISTIR 7804: Technical Evaluation, Testing and Validation of the Usability of Electronic Health Records." It is available athttp://www.nist.g...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 29, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: David Levesque healthcare IT difficulties Lifespan retaliation rhode island hospital use error Source Type: blogs
