Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Hospitals Owning Up to Their Mistakes
July 15, 2013US News and World Reports By Beth Howard | July 12, 2013 – Malpractice lawyers have long counseled doctors and hospitals not to admit to medical mishaps, much less apologize for them.
Too much noise from hospital alarms poses risk for patients
July 11, 2013The Washington Post By Lena H. Sun, Published: July 7 – Walk into a hospital intensive-care unit and hear the din: A ventilator honks loudly. An infusion pump emits a high-pitched
Redesigning the patient experience for safer care
July 9, 2013AMedNews.com | By Kevin B. O’Reilly | amednews staff — Posted June 24, 2013 Implementing processes that improve how patients feel about the care they receive can have another upshot: better quality
Diagnosis: Insufficient Outrage
July 8, 2013NT Times Op-Ed | Diagnosis: Insufficient Outrage | By H. Gilbert Welch | Published: July 4, 2013 Hanover, N.H. – Recent revelations should lead those of us involved in America’s health care system
Top Medicare Prescribers Rake In Speaking Fees From Drugmakers
June 26, 2013by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber and Jennifer LaFleur | ProPublica, June 25, 2013, This story was co-published with NPR. When the blood pressure drug Bystolic hit the market in 2008, it faced
Should Physician Pay Be Tied to Performance?
June 18, 2013Wall Street Journal – JOURNAL REPORTS | June 16, 2013, 4:11 p.m. ET – We need to rethink how we pay doctors. That’s one thing almost everyone can agree on.
Healing the Overwhelmed Physician
June 12, 2013“The nation’s $325 billion prescription-drug market offers an enormous incentive to develop and disseminate information lauding the presumed virtues of costly new medications, but there is much less muscle behind
Top Execs At “Big Five’’ Health Insurers Each Pull In Millions
June 12, 2013Connecticut Health I-Team | By: Barbara Nagy | June 10, 2013 – Health care reform, new Wall Street regulations and outrage over large pay packages are likely to put pressure
Three out of 20 scopes used to examine GI tracts and colons improperly cleaned
June 11, 2013Before your next endoscopic procedure, you want to read this – or maybe not! APIC’s (the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology) mission is to create a safer
The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill – Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures
June 2, 2013NY Times By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL| Published: June 1, 2013 – MERRICK, N.Y. — Deirdre Yapalater’s recent colonoscopy at a surgical center near her home here on Long Island went smoothly: she