Google Health is dead. Long live (the ideas behind) Google Health (Best of MedCitizens)

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Google Health is dead. Long live (the ideas behind) Google Health. “Google Health is truly innovative and broke new ground when it created interfaces to hospitals, labs, and pharmacies in 2008. I was there at the beginning and can definitively state that it was Google’s reputation and vision that broke down the political barriers keeping data from patients.”

Judge slashes St. Jude’s award in employee theft lawsuit by $1.3 billion. “The $2.3 billion awarded to St. Jude Medical Inc. by a jury over a trade secret theft trial was pared back by the judge overseeing the case, leaving St. Jude with just under $1 billion and a wide-ranging injunction against former employee Yongning Zou.”

Work hours, sleep challenge even the best medical schools, residencies. “Why do so many still want medical interns and residents to work when they are exhausted? Is it for cheap labor for hospitals? Is it to test their mettle for when they become real doctors? Is it really so interns don’t ’sign off’ at 5 pm and miss the natural history of their patients’ diseases? Are program directors trying to minimize patient ’hand offs’ by having medical house staff work extended hours? Or, do some senior physician educators advocate arduous work schedules because they endured it in their time?”

Don’t ya wish you have a BSN like me? “(A) Medtopicwriter team interviewed nurses in three different states that all complain of nurse-to-nurse bullying and doctor to nurse bullying in their healthcare facilities… Nurses represent the lifeline of healthcare; the care they give greatly affects patient satisfaction and engagement… Allowing this to continue contributes to nurse turnover and a demoralized nursing workforce, ultimately degrading patient satisfaction and facility reputation.”

Infuse bone growth product garners more controversy for Medtronic. “In what has become a familiar cry against the Infuse product, doctors on the company’s payroll were accused of concealing vital information from published studies.”