Quality Fraud Drives Medical Costs

Dec 19, 2016 Courts, Ethics, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Law, Medical Malpractice, Pharma, Products, Quality Fraud, Weekly Comments Off on Quality Fraud Drives Medical Costs

Daraprim was first made available in 1952. It treats toxoplasmosis and cystoisosporiasis, diseases caused by eating undercooked food and other digestive problems – often with no detectable symptoms. Turing Pharma, operated by Martin Shkreli, bought this old drug in August of 2015, immediately jacking up the price of Daraprim from about $13 a pill to […]

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Consumer Harms Caused By Technology

Dec 12, 2016 Data Breach, Health, Hospitals, Medical Malpractice, Negligence, Products, Weekly Comments Off on Consumer Harms Caused By Technology

  The experts call it “emergent properties”: malware and bugs that attack medical devices through outdated software used by medical offices, clinics and hospitals. Study Finds Medical Device Flaws Go Unfixed. “TrapX staff traced back attacks to compromised PCs associated with radiation oncology systems, PACS (picture archive and communications systems) that serve multiple different radiologic systems.The […]

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