health care sector

How the Fallacy of the "Perfect" Health Care Market Undermined P...

Health Care Renewal  Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:37

We began this blog way back in 2005 to discuss threats to physicians' values, especially from concentration and abuse of power.  Personal experience, and cases and anecdotes described by colleagues suggested that a dysfunctional health care system was making patients and physicians miserable.  Interviews with more physicians suggested pervasive threats to their values, many stemming from how leaders of health care organizations wielded their power.  

Threats to Professional Values


 

US health care sector is a fairly green giant

Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 11/10/2009 - 15:08

CHICAGO (AP) -- Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases....


 

Improving Patient Safety In The EU: HIT Should Be Classified As ...

Health Care Renewal  Sat, 06/20/2009 - 09:39

Here is some sense on healthcare IT from the European Union, echoing a number of themes I've written about at Healthcare Renewal and my academic site on HIT difficulties and failures.