Hospitals should conduct drug tests on all physicians and nurses, especially following an adverse event, and physicians and nurses should be ready to comply, according to New York University Langone Medical Center’s Director of the Division of Medical Ethics. In a MedPage Today article...
A key House panel unanimously approved a bill on Wednesday that would replace the formula that pays physicians for each service provided under Medicare with one that rewards providers for high-quality care. The 51-0 vote by the Committee on Energy and Commerce sends the Medicare Patient Access...
An article by a nurse that appeared recently in The New York Times has brought about a surge of discussion, sometimes revealing, sometimes aggressive, about the relationships and professional interactions between caregivers in hospitals.
Event reporting in the busy environment of the ED can be a challenge, and many organizations, whether because of distractions, forgetfulness, or simply not understanding a given action's adverse effect on patients, do not do reporting well.
In the first year of an experimental program to refashion Medicare, four of five Massachusetts networks of hospitals and physicians were able to slow spending by better coordinating medical care for patients, the Boston Globe reported. The accountable care organization (ACO) program, a...
The Essential Hospitals Engagement Network, a network created under the public-private Partnership for Patients established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has saved nearly $12 million over the past 18 months from the prevention of more than 1,100 patient harm events....
