In recent days, I've posted about current articles on the destructive nature of today's vastly over-complex, burdensome EHR technolo...
The inevitable downgrading of burdensome, destructive EHRs back to paper & document imaging
Burnout Returns to Center Stage
A recent Mayo Clinic Proceedings guest editorial, by Yale University physician Kristine Olson, asks the question--to some of us it's far...
Physicians Harassed by Overwhelming Levels of Messaging From Electronic Medical Records
In yet another example of the clerical overload caused by bad health IT, physicians find themselves drinking from a fire hose through cybern...
Medical Economics: Highly experienced physicians lost to medicine over bad health IT
The title of the article is actually "Physicians leaving profession over EHRs", but that title omits the real impact of the phenom...
More on the Opiate Abuse Epidemic: Where Again Does the Finger Point?
In a recent blog post we pointed to conservatives' efforts to implicate Medicaid funding as somehow causative of, or at least promoting,...
Not just bad health IT, but SPECTACULARLY bad health IT
I define bad healthcare IT as: ... IT that is ill-suited to purpose, hard to use, unreliable, loses data or provides incorrect data, is diff...
Will the New Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the US Department of Health and Human Services Help Health Care Professionals Challenge Morally Objectionable Acts - Like Bribery, Fraud and Other Criminal or Corrupt Practices?
For a long time we have argued that health care corruption is a major cause of health care dysfunction. We have documented numerous cases i...
Big Bang Theory of Health Care: Ever Since 1967
Hold on to your hat: it all comes together now. Looking at events in our nation's capital, in a strange fever dream, The Big Bang Theory...
"Hot Spot For User Entry Error": Hawaii missile alert: How one employee ‘pushed the wrong button’ and caused a wave of panic
A short post. I believe this WaPo story vividly demonstrates issues I've seen in what Australian colleague Dr. Jon Patrick & I call ...
How To Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime?
Introduction: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care Dysfunction For a long time we have argued that healt...
Ill-Informed, Incompetent* Health Care Leadership: the Case of President Trump's Interview in the New York Times
[* - see discussion of definitions below] On December 28, 2017, the New York Times published an impromptu interview by reporter Michael S Sc...
A Remedy for Corruption
Do I really have a remedy for corruption? I wish I did. But, I have lately found an effective balm for the sickening discouragement that it ...
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