Category Archives: Headline of the Day
Workers Who Give Care To The Homebound Often Can’t Afford To Get Their Own
April 4, 2017KHN Kaiser Health News | By Shefali Luthra March 31, 2017 For more than two decades, Celeste Thompson, 57, a home care worker in Missoula, Mont., had not had regular contact
Markups On Care Can Fatten Hospital Budgets — Even If Few Patients Foot The Full Bill
April 4, 2017KHN Kaiser Health News | By Chad Terhune April 3, 2017 Few patients pay a hospital’s full price for a procedure or test. But a new study shows why those
Sick after hours? How to navigate your health care options
April 4, 2017CTMirror | By: Arielle Levin Becker | March 27, 2017 This story is the latest in a series on how to better navigate the health care system. So you’re coming down with
The CT Department of Health Adverse Event Report was released and it is not great news for patients
November 4, 2016I was recently interviewed for this story, Medical Errors Decline 3 Percent In 2015, on medical errors in Connecticut. Three percent is not enough. We must keep raising peoples awareness that patient
CMS Updates Hospital Results for Patients and Caregivers
August 25, 2016On July 27th, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the results for the following eighteen measures of hospital quality on its patient-oriented website, Hospital Compare (www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html):
Ask These Three Questions to Get Better Healthcare
August 8, 2016Peter Pronovost MD PhD; July 13, 2016 <img alt=”Ask These Three Questions to Get Better Healthcare” class=”StretchedBox W(100%) H(100%) ie-7_H(a)” src=”http://l1.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/pGelLrxhyWLHhEQ_rHVqJA–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/robb_report_221/d691e2362bfc8c7ee4a9ee6924453fd6″/> These three key questions can transform healthcare decisions.
‘Bag of Pills’: Is It Necessary? Fewer medications is an achievable goal
May 10, 2016MedPage Today by Joyce Frieden News Editor, MedPage Today WASHINGTON — Polypharmacy is a difficult problem for many physicians who treat older patients, but there are steps they can take to cut
Now There’s Proof: Docs Who Get Company Cash Tend to Prescribe More Brand-Name Meds
March 17, 2016by Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Mike Tigas, ProPublica, March 17, 2016, 5 a.m. (Pill bottle: Davis Photography via Getty Images; sheet of hundred dollar bills: Don Farrall via
Let’s involve Connecticut patients in reducing medical errors
March 15, 2016Lisa Freeman, Connecticut Center for Patient Safety, Executive Director March 13 through 18 is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. As I sit here, thinking of what to write, stories of the people
Want to know about medical mistakes? Talk to the parents.
March 9, 2016By Ryan White March 04, 2016 | USC Center for Health Journalism As someone who has spent quite a bit of time as a visitor at a hospital recently,