Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Legal Fundamentals of Surrogate Decision Making

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My article, "Legal Fundamentals of Surrogate Decision Making" has just been published in Chest .   Here is the abstract: The four ...
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Fist Fight and Love Triangle In Pennsylvania Costs One CEO His Job -

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A job paying $4.5 million a year is not easy to come by, at least in my area of the world it’s not.  He used to have clout and now with t...
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Neupro Patch Gets FDA Approval for Advanced Stage Idiopathic Parkinson’s Disease and Restless Leg Syndrome

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The patch is worn for a day and contains a sulfite, sodium metabisulfite that some are allergic to and you have to watch for a few other dru...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Express Scripts and Medco Get Federal Approval To Merger Valued at $29 Billion - Is It All About Data to sell for Bigger Profits?

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This means more mail order prescriptions on the way eventually as almost all health plans today have one.  I wonder how this affects ch...

Over Diagnosing for Breast Cancer? Report Suggests Some Treatments Were Not Needed

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This is one that I know about through my mother as we had this happen.  It turned out she did not have breast cancer and a “mass” was found....

Oracle Buys Cloud Based Clinical Trial Application Company–ClearTrial

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It was not too long ago that Oracle Larry Ellison received an award for his contributions to Health IT from the NIH.  We see the move with...

Study Suggests that Pay for Performance Incentives for Hospitals Is Not Leading to Better Patient Outcomes

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Back in January of 2011 we had another study saying the same thing so we can add one more bit of information to the theories that pay for pe...