I think this article somewhat speaks for itself and why reporting is important and this is probably not the last story we will hear on this. If government had wanted to track this, a data base reporting system could have been set up with applicable laws a long time ago requiring payments to be reported, but when blockbusters were rolling out and times were good and profitable, things sometimes get placed on the back burner, however, in times like we are experiencing now with added transparency everyone wants to know the history and “why” and “how”.
There’s a lot to keep track of these days in government and the lack of some perhaps business intelligence in the past is beginning to show, as again many felt “uncomfortable” discussing technology, but by today’s standards, uncomfortable is something that is now part of everyday life when it comes to how technology is used, for the good and the use for profit only, need balance. I wrote a short while back about a couple of the 2 hottest topics right now in healthcare, Algorithms and Whistleblowers that somewhat makes a case of part of what we are dealing with today. BD
Here's yet another exhibit in the ongoing case for public disclosure of drugmakers' payments to doctors. One of the top psychiatrists in the U.S. failed to report $1.2 million in Pharma consulting payments to his university, a Congressional investigation found. Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff of Emory University made some $2.8 million from drug company work from 2000 to 2007, the New York Times reports, and hid almost half of that income from administrators.
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