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The Mystery of the Northwestern Settlement - the Plot Thickens
This article includes even more curiosities that raise even more questions.Dr Bennett Found Irregularities, Sangoleye Pleaded Guilty, Nobody Noticed In the original media coverage, Dr Bennett was accused based on complaints by a whistle blower. For example, in an article in the Chicago Sun-Times, A whistleblower suit filed under seal in 2009 by former Lurie Cancer Center worker Melissa Theis first alleged the wrongdoing by Bennett. However, the story in the Cancer Letter suggests Dr Bennett had tried to blow the whistle himself. First,Bennett said the allegations that he spent NCI money on dinners and vaca...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Amgen whistle-blowers Northwestern University legal settlements cancer anechoic effect Source Type: blogs
Direct Access Testing: Putting Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
Angela Young knew something was wrong. She hadn’t felt well for months but didn’t know what was going on. Her doctor ran tests for immune problems and endocrine issues. They all came back normal. Finally, Angela went to an independent direct access testing (“DAT”) laboratory and had them run some additional tests, including a test for something she suspected, but her doctor didn’t want to test her for: Lyme disease. When the Lyme disease test came back positive, she was relieved, because finally she knew what was wrong, could seek treatment and begin to get healthy again.
Michael S. is a typical 55 year o...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Consumer Health Care Source Type: blogs
Only Alternative Facts Can Support the Protecting Access to Care Act
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID HYMAN
In late March of this year, JAMAInternal Medicine published a study finding that the “the overall rate of [malpractice] claims paid on behalf of physicians decreased by 55.7% from 1992 to 2014.” The finding wasn’t new. In 2013, the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies published a study co-authored by one of us (Hyman) which found that “the per-physician rate of paid med mal claims has been dropping for 20 years and in 2012 was less than half the 1992 level.” In fact, peer-reviewed journals in law and medicine have published lots of studies with similar results. It is (or sh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jonathan Halvorson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
RIP A. Ernest Fitzgerald
A. Ernest Fitzgerald, Pentagon whistleblower, Nixon victim, and early libertarian ally, died January 31 at 92. In a remembrance to Fitzgerald delivered Wednesday on the Senate floor, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,called him“a tenacious watchdog … a hero for taxpayers and a warrior against waste.” As the Washington Postreported:A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a Pentagon official tasked with analyzing project expenses, was summoned to Capitol Hill in 1968 to discuss a new fleet of Lockheed C-5A transport planes before the Joint Economic Committee.He had been instructed to play dumb about the cost.He did not.Under oath, he said...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Reining In Government by Dear Colleague Letter: An Update
For many decades, critics have noted that agencies were using Dear Colleague and guidance letters, memos and so forth — also known variously as subregulatory guidance, stealth regulation and regulatory dark matter — to grab new powers and ban new things in the guise of interpreting existing law, all while bypassing notice-and-comment and other constraints on actual rulemaking.That ’s a problem we at Cato have been concerned about for at least twenty years — the quote itself is from my 2017 post in this space. In financial regulation, for example, as Charles Calomiris argued in a Cato working paper around the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 8 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Really just a lot of bits and pieces this week. Not a great deal of inspirational stuff!Sadly we see lots of spurious emissions from the ADHA wanting to tell people living at the extremities of Australia how to tweak the privacy settings of the #myHR that they don ’t care about. Staggering that this is all we hear from such an a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 13, 2022 Edition-----In the US the recovery from Hurricane Ian, which will take years is starting as nuclear war sadly seems to be coming closer – I hope this is just sabre-rattling and no more!In China there seems to be more instability as Xi moves to term 3 of 5 years in a week or two.Liz Truss still seems to be there!In OZ we have more floods – again – and we are waiting for a new Budget in 2 weeks or so!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/defence-gets-ready-for-the-fight-of-our-lives/news-story/4ea89108b822df72194742dc3eec0246Defence gets ready for the fight of our livesAlan D...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
More sunshine please
The Honorable Jacob J. Lew
Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Chief of Staff Lew:
In March 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, which included the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA). We applauded its passage but, nearly three years later, we are disappointed that the PPSA has yet to be implemented—especially in light of reports that the final rules are being held up at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Financial relationships between physicians and drug and medical device companies can create conflicts of interest that threaten the quality of pa...
Source: PharmaGossip - January 17, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
The Complex Economics Of Disease Prevention And Longevity
In August, the Center for Sustainable Health Spending (CSHS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to, among other things, examine the relationship between disease prevention and health care costs. This project heightened my interest in the wonderfully-researched report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) entitled Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget, and its excellent summary in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
The report was years in the making and is noteworthy for its original research and its thorough and insightful literature review. A...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Charles Roehrig Tags: All Categories Health Care Costs Nonmedical Determinants Prevention Public Health Spending Substance Abuse Source Type: blogs
DOD and Army Restrict Attendance at National CME Conferences a Move Towards Local and Online Education
In the wake of new federal conference oversight, the military medical services are navigating how to ensure that medical personnel can continue to receive vital continuing medical education (CME) and keep up with the latest advances in their field, while adhering to new conference regulations, according to a release from U.S. Medicine.
In September, the Department of Defense (DoD) released a memo describing how it would implement conference oversight guidance provided by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) earlier this year. The OMB guidance requires agencies to decrease spending on travel by 30%. In addition,...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 1, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
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Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - February 9, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Twitter @Flap Tweets Source Type: blogs
Sunlight Before Signing in Obama's First Term
Jim Harper
“Sunlight Before Signing” was President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to put all bills Congress sent him online for five days before signing them. It was a measurable promise that I’ve monitored here since the beginning of his first term, and I will continue to do so in his second.
It was the president’s first broken promise, and in the first year he broke it again with almost every new law, giving just six of the first 124 bills he signed the exposure he promised.
With his first term concluded last month, we can now assess how well the president did with Sunlight Before Signing. Complianc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Source Type: blogs
More Signs of Organized Resistance? - Proposed Legislation for More Hospital Leadership Accountability
This year we note the beginning of action against the power of large health care organizations lead by hired executives and cronies who seem to put their self-interest and self-enrichment ahead of patients' and the people's health. In 2013 we noted no confidence votes by medical school faculty (here), and university faculty (here) against academic leaders perceived as putting their power and wealth ahead of core values, actions by a state governor (here) and a big city mayor (here) against local health care systems perceived as putting their executives' enrichment ahead of their services to patients, and a union labo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 1, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive compensation organized resistance logical fallacies non-profit organizations public relations Providence Health Systems hospital systems Source Type: blogs
Obama’s 2014 Military Spending Request
Benjamin H. Friedman
The Obama administration $640.5 billion fiscal year 2014 request for military spending authority is predictably unrealistic and excessive. Still, political circumstance continues to drag the Pentagon toward fiscal restraint.
That $640.5 billion includes $88.5 billion for war (a.k.a. overseas contingency operations), $526.6 for non-war spending in the Department of Defense, and another $25.4 billion spending outside DoD, mostly for nuclear weapons in the Department of Energy, which officially counts as “national defense” or budget function 050 spending.
Those spending levels ignore the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Benjamin H. Friedman Source Type: blogs
The Medicare Drug Savings Act 2013
In mid-April, Senator Jay Rockefeller and 18 Senate Democrats introduced legislation to protect seniors and reduce the deficit by $141.2 billion according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) by “making sure pharmaceutical companies pay their share,” reported FiercePharma. Similar proposals were also included in the President’s most recent budget proposal and the President's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Other Senate co-sponsors include Bill Nelson (D-FL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Dick Durbin (D...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
