Preventable harm contributes to between 210,000 and 440,000 deaths in American hospitals, a new literature review in the Journal of Patient Safety finds. It divides these lethal mistakes into errors of commission, omission, communication, context and diagnostic errors. The smaller estimate, gleaned with help from the Global Trigger Tool, doesn’t include errors where the patient […]
Snyderman: a low tech patient centric solution is to simply be neighborly. Take the gloves off. Be human. #TXFM pic.twitter.com/Uz06VjYWXw — Spark (@uofuspark) September 10, 2013 Watching the #txfm Twitter stream this morning made me wish I had been in the audience for Dr. Nancy Snyderman’s opening talk at the Mayo Clinic’s Transform conference. She […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
$6.9 million. That’s the error tax “average US employer” pays for hospital errors, given 1,000 admissions in a year for all covered lives. The Leapfrog Group got that number from its new calculator. It’s designed to help employers figure out the hidden tax that comes from getting care from C, D or F hospitals. The […]
Jess Jacobs and Donna Cryer are experts on the healthcare system — professionally and personally. Jacobs has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and describes it best in her own words: I have an idiopathic condition. It lies somewhere between the heart, autonomic nervous system, and mind. It’s a veritable no-mans land of drugs and specialists where […]
A medical billing and collections company is flipping the script between doctors and patients who don’t have health insurance to pay for care. Instead of writing off those bills as bad debt, physicians are hiring MedDirect to work directly with patients to help them find a way to pay. This allows physicians to continue to […]
Betsy Gabay saw a rotating cast of at least 14 doctors when she was hospitalized at New York Hospital Queens for almost four weeks last year for a flare-up of ulcerative colitis. But the person she credits with saving her life is a spry, persistent 75-...
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Anne Weiss is Quality/Equality Health Care Team Director and Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explains the challenges of helping communities improve patient care and reduce readmissions.
The impact of information technology has transformed the healthcare industry in the US. Be it the war stricken economy or the need for an effective care system, the government has jumped on the eHealth bandwagon with its bags loaded. Healthcare reforms under the American Re-investment and Recovery Act (ARRA) are fuelled by the need for […]