Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash

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Rideout Hospital, California: CEO Pinocchio on quality of patient care during hospital computer crash

Unknown 3/03/2015 Komentar

EHRs and other clinical IT are touted as essential to improving safety, among many other benefits.Yet when hospital systems crash, the common refrain by hospital executives to the press, when such stories are reported, is...

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Turn, Turn, Turn - Another Health Care Revolving Door Update

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Turn, Turn, Turn - Another Health Care Revolving Door Update

Unknown 3/03/2015 Komentar

It has been a while since our last revolving door update, so it's time to take another spin.Summary of the Revolving Door Phenomenon Before we get to some cases, though, let me summarize an important article on the revolving...

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Did You Ever Notice?

Did You Ever Notice?

Unknown 3/01/2015 Komentar

To quote the late 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney, "did you ever notice" how documentary movies--we could extend this to all sorts of documentation as Lancet does it far better than any American medical journals--on...

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Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Unknown 2/27/2015 Komentar

Every day seems to bring the latest breathlessly touted innovation in modern health care.  The endless hawking of new health care wonders is beginning to inspire some skepticism, but maybe not enough.The Promotion of...

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Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?

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Timing Discharges to Maximize Revenue - "Corruption" of Corporate Long-Term Hospitals?

Unknown 2/23/2015 Komentar

A recent Wall Street Journal article that focused on a quirk in US Medicare payment rules that may be gamed by long-term hospitals also revealed the plight of physicians employed by such hospitals, and worse, the danger...

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