Unknown 9:10 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Threats to Democracy Round Up - Early May, 2023Healthy Care Renewal Influence of Hostile Foreign PowersReminders of how the US home-grown anti-democratic movement has been egged on by hostile foreign powers, ... Read More
Unknown 11:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Inquiry to HHS Office of the Inspector General and CMS Center for Program Integrity: are electronic medical records authenticated by the Business Record Exception, and to hell with audit trail-based forensics?Healthy Care Renewal At my May 4, 2023 post "A primer on EHR forensics" (https://ift.tt/Sq2HJ0v), I wrote:I tend to give people, especially learned att... Read More
Unknown 11:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Absurdities from the EMR defense lawyers: audit trails could be trashed! Spoliation was OK!Healthy Care Renewal More on what I consider a national phenomenon of patient's rights being curtailed by Big Medicine via abuse of EHRs and EHR information ... Read More
Unknown 7:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit A primer on EHR forensics: covid-related court slowdowns are clearing; the interesting domain of civil trials on medical (and EHR) malpractice is ramping up.Healthy Care Renewal I recently was involved in a medical malpractice trial with an EHR forensics issue in Broward County, Florida (Ft. Lauderdale area). The Co... Read More
Unknown 11:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Who Cares If Hunter Biden Owns a Laptop? Red Herrings and Reflexive ControlHealthy Care Renewal Introduction: Propaganda and Disinformation in Health Care and Elsewhere We used to write about propaganda and disinformation used to promo... Read More
Unknown 6:21 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Healthy Care Renewal At my April 26, 2023 post "It's bad enough EHRs cause clinician burnout. It's even worse they are being used by hospitals and d... Read More
Unknown 12:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Lowe vs. Cerner: Large EHR company deep in lawsuit hell, and U.S. District Judge in Virginia who found in their favor overruled. If only they had read the Healthcare Renewal Blog ...Healthy Care Renewal I have not written posts on this blog for a while now, in part due to being busy with EHR-related litigation work, and in part due to person... Read More
Unknown 6:10 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit It's bad enough EHRs cause clinician burnout. It's even worse they are being used by hospitals and defense lawyers to bury mistakes through discovery fraud and information blocking.Healthy Care Renewal This exchange I had with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) at HHS should be of interest. It comes from my now-12-pl... Read More
Unknown 11:11 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Threats to Democracy Round UpHealthy Care Renewal Influence of hostile foreign powers[Like the late 1930s or peak of the cold war] Russian spy network operating in North Sea- spy ships disg... Read More
Unknown 9:11 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Introducting the Threats to Democracy RoundupsHealthy Care Renewal We started Health Care Renewal in 2004 to address the worsening dysfunction in health care, primarily in the US. We were aboutAddressing t... Read More
Unknown 9:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit In Memoriam: Ahnold, Our Faithful Watchdog MascotHealthy Care Renewal RIP, April 10, 2023 from Health Care Renewal https://ift.tt/kd4TIB2 In Memoriam: Ahnold, Our Faithful Watchdog MascotHealthy Care Renewal... Read More
Unknown 10:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Haunted by the Impunity of Rich Business Leaders - Will One Criminal Conviction make a Difference? The Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Pleads GuiltyHealthy Care Renewal Impunity: an Introduction We believe that unaccountable leadership is a major cause of health care dysfunction. Impunity is an extreme for... Read More
Unknown 12:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit VA Office of Inspection General: (Cerner) Electronic Health Record’s 'Unknown Queue' Caused Multiple Events of Patient HarmHealthy Care Renewal This report exemplifies many of the issues I've written about since 1999 (i.e., grossly underqualified leadership of EMR design and impl... Read More
Unknown 10:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Probably the worst episode seen in my medical career - and, in today's hospitals, this story does not apparently constitute neglect of a disabled adultHealthy Care Renewal I post this New York Times story with little additional commentary. I will say that I've written the President of Cornell University, c... Read More
Unknown 12:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit The New Business Coup? Increasing Evidence that Large Health Care Corporations are Funding Threats to DemocracyHealthy Care Renewal Introduction: Health Care Corporations' Political Contributions: From Bipartisan to Trumpian At one time, leadership of large health co... Read More
Unknown 4:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit Guest Blog: Susan Levenstein, MD, on the Omicron VariantHealthy Care Renewal Introduction.To encourage wider dissemination, we're pleased to provide here an author-abridged and -authorized version of a recent num... Read More
Unknown 1:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit The Irresponsibility of Political Leaders Encouraging Vaccine Resistance by Health Care Professionals: One Small Response to a Local ExampleHealthy Care Renewal [Below is the text of a letter to the editor I wrote to the Providence Journal about one state legislator who praised the "joyful"... Read More
Unknown 2:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit The New New Abnormal: What Should We Do in a World Becoming Increasingly Irrational?Healthy Care Renewal We Health Care Renewal (https://ift.tt/3r3EGO9) bloggers once again apologize for our chronic lack of posting on the blog. However, we remai... Read More
Unknown 8:09 AM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit On the primacy of the physician-patient relationship, from an unlikely source - the Attorney General of NebraskaHealthy Care Renewal I have not written much at this site, or any site, in recent years due to being kept busy supporting litigation regarding bad healthcare inf... Read More
Unknown 12:09 PM Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit More Large Health Care Corporations Are Again Funding Politicians Who Threatened Representative Democratic GovernanceHealthy Care Renewal Introduction: Health Care Corporations' Political Contributions: From Bipartisan to Trumpian At one time, leadership of large health co... Read More