Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Device Malfunction Casts Doubt on Industry Pledge
April 20, 2012By BARRY MEIER and KATIE THOMAS Published: April 18, 2012 The New York Times – As doctors scramble to understand the risks posed by a flawed heart device component made
Kidney dialysis patients more likely to survive in Connecticut, ProPublica, New Haven Register research shows
April 19, 2012Published: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 By Mary E. O’Leary, New Haven Register Staff – The estimated cost of serving some 400,000 Americans with dialysis treatment is about $77,000 per patient,
Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret
April 12, 2012By PETER DOSHI and TOM JEFFERSON Published: April 10, 2012 The New York Times – IN the fall of 2009, at the height of fears over swine flu, our research
Nursing Homes Cited After Patient Chokes To Death
April 10, 2012April 09, 2012|By JOSH KOVNER, jkovner@courant.com, The Hartford Courant – State regulators have fined a Torrington nursing home after an elderly patient — who needed assistance while eating – was
the Choosing Wisely project, and five tests or procedures You May Not Need
April 5, 2012Today, a group of nine medical specialty boards released a new report saying that a large number of medical tests and procedures billed as routine are largely unnecessary. They recommended
State Lags In Key Home Health Care Measures
April 4, 2012C-HIT by Lisa Chedekel | Apr 2, 2012 10:00 pm As the Malloy administration seeks to expand home health care options and reduce reliance on nursing homes, a new national
Drugmakers have paid $8 billion in fraud fines
April 3, 2012By Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY; Updated 3/6/2012 8:43 AM WASHINGTON – The nation’s largest drugmakers have paid at least $8 billion in fines for repeatedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid over
CR Investigates: Dangerous medical devices
March 28, 2012Tens of millions of Americans live with medical devices implanted in their bodies—artificial joints, heart defibrillators, surgical mesh. And it’s a safe bet that most of them assume that someone,
Change to Conn. medical malpractice law in dispute
March 26, 2012Associated Press March 24, 2012 HARTFORD, Conn.— State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut’s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate
Berwick joining Washington think tank
March 24, 2012ModernHealthcare.com By Jessica Zigmond Posted: March 23, 2012 – 3:00 pm ET Former CMS Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick will continue his work in public policy as a senior fellow at