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" The Censorship That It is " - Now Threatens US Government Health Agencies (DHHS, CMS, CDC)
On Health Care Renewal we discus the dark side of health care, particularly of the leadership and governance of health care, that has enabled health care dysfunction.  Our discussions are based on publicly available information, often produced by dogged health care journalism.Uur work has become more difficult as journalism is challenged by economic circumstances.  Yet now there are worse threats.  Despite First Amendment protections offreedom of speech and the press, journalism is now under fire from the highest reaches of US government.Information Blockade at the Department of Health and Human ServicesTwo ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect CDC censorship CMS DHHS disinformation free speech Source Type: blogs

Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve. Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs

Was the past perfect ? I don ’ t know, but the future looks tense … welcome on-board, to automated ACS management.
Charles river esplanade ,Boston* : A healthy middle-aged man who was jogging quietly, while his heart was under intense scrutiny by the bionic eyes of Apple i-watch’s smart patch electrode. Suddenly, it detected some bizarre ST segment fragmentation (Seems it can predict in advance , Ischemic signals 10 minutes prior to onset of ACS ) The built-in cosmos direct GPS instantly alerted & summoned a titanium powered Space X drone that pulled the patient from the riverside to the nearest human wellness port . It dropped him through a remotely accessed split glass roof right inside the hybrid heart lab, to find , men ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coroanry syndrome Clinical cardiology Ethics in Medicine Hippocratic oath history of cardiology Histroy of medicine Left main disease Medical ethics Primary PCI 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

The New Deal and Recovery, Part 24: The RFC
George Selgin(In writing this series, I allowed myself to skip over some topics. But now that I ' m turning the series into a book, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, I have to close those gaps. The most important gap by far concerns the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Although the RFC was originally established by Herbert Hoover, the Roosevelt administration not only allowed it to survive but turned it into the largest and most powerful of all New Deal agencies. Hence a three-part essay, of which this is the first installment.)Hoover ' s New DealThere are few more successful examples in history ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

The Anti-ACO / Hospital Medical Practice Consolidation
A physician, Charles Beauchamp, recently left the following comment (shown below) on my ACO and Hospital Consolidation post on EMR and EHR. This might be another example of the EHR Physician Revolt. I wonder how many other doctors will go “against the grain” like Dr. Beauchamp. As a physician who is going “against the grain” (ie “hospital owned” to private practice” rather than in the opposite direction) I have the following model of action to become part of a patient centered rather than exploitative ACO: 1) Establish my rural practice in my house at a very low cost, including asking some of my patie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 11, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT HIE LabCorp Rural Healthcare Telemedicine 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

Kaiser Health Network
This article was produced by Kaiser Health News with support from The SCAN Foundation. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2012/march/13/off-label-use-of-risky-antipsychotic-drugs.aspx
Source: PharmaGossip - February 15, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider 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

Guest podcast: Deborah Gordon of Network Health talks reform with Sivad Solutions
Discussion topics included: 1. The challenges of serving a very diverse population and customer base, along with lower income customers as a result of income or job situation. 2. Network Health, and states like Massachusetts, have lead the nation in Medicaid health care. How can that trend, and how can the reforms found in Massachusetts, spread across the land? 3. The creation of the Health Insurance Exchange is the key to success…which brings competition and market forces to bear in health care. “It is like Expedia for health insurance…” 4. A focus on quality patient care going forward… 5. What are the challenge...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 17, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations care coordination consumerism data mining disease management education Finance health reform patient safety podcast quality regulations hospital readmissions Massachusetts Medicaid Network Healt Source Type: blogs

5 Tips for Living With Uncertainty
In his book The Art of Uncertainty, Dennis Merritt Jones writes: “Between a shaky world economy, increasing unemployment, and related issues, many today are being forced to come to the edge of uncertainty. Just like the baby sparrows, they find themselves leaning into the mystery that change brings, because they have no choice: It’s fly or die.” For persons struggling with depression and anxiety — and for those of us who are highly sensitive — uncertainty is especially difficult. Forget about learning to fly. The uncertainty itself feels like death and can cripple our efforts to do anything during a tim...
Source: World of Psychology - May 5, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Money and Financial Motivation and Inspiration Stress 20k Baby Sparrows Comfortable With Uncertainty Creative Fields Defense Contractor Dennis Merritt Source Type: blogs

Further Thoughts On The Recession And Health Spending
Much has been made of the slowdown in health spending growth and the role played by the economy. I have to confess that my first take, after studying plots of business cycles and health spending, was that health spending “had a mind of its own” and paid no attention to business cycles. Consider the two most recent recessions depicted in the chart below. During the recession of 2001, health spending growth actually shot up at the same time that the growth in gross domestic product (GDP) was dropping, and continued to rise even after the recession officially ended. During the Great Recession, spanning December 2007 thro...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Charles Roehrig Tags: All Categories Effectiveness Health Care Costs Health Reform Insurance Medicare Payment Pharma Quality Spending Technology 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

Has pancreatic damage from glucagon suppressing diabetes drugs been underplayed? - BMJ
BMJ 2013; 346 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f3680 (Published 10 June 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f3680Article Related content Article metrics Deborah Cohen, investigations editor Author Affiliations dcohen@bmj.com Incretin mimetics have been called “the darlings of diabetes treatment” and they may soon also be licensed for treating obesity. But a BMJ investigation has found growing safety concerns linked to the drugs’ mechanism of action. Deborah Cohenasks why patients and doctors have not been told. They’ve been touted as th...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

ProPublica Publishes Medicare Part D Prescriber Data
In 2010, the "investigative journalist organization" known as ProPubilca, through donations from the Pew Foundation and several other organizations geared towards attacking industry, began the "Dollars for Docs" campaign. As we have covered extensively since the launch of that campaign, ProPublica aggregated the payment reporting data of approximately 15 manufacturers who were reporting their payments publicly—either as a requirement of a corporate integrity agreement (CIA) with HHS-OIG, or voluntarily—and then created a searchable, aggregated website. Additionally, ProPublica teamed up with national and local medi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs