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Hospital Medical Errors Now The Third Leading Cause Of Death In The U.S.
Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year, according to a new study in the Journal of Patient Safety. Read More »
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Hospital Monopolies: The Biggest Driver of Health Costs That Nobody Talks About
The debate about health-care reform, on both the Left and the Right, revolves almost entirely around changing the way we pay for health care...I agree that changing the way we buy health care is important—I once wrote a 6,400-word magazine article on the subject—but there’s an entire other side to that equation that we completely ignore: changing the way we sell health care. Read More »
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Hospital Participation In ACOs To Double In 2014, Survey Says
Premier expects hospital participation in accountable care organizations to double in 2014, according to its fall 2013 Economic Outlook C-suite survey. Premier’s Economic Outlook highlights emerging economic and industry trends impacting alliance members and the industry. Read More »
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Hospital Sues NextGen Over EMR Implementation
A small Montana hospital recently filed suit against NextGen Healthcare Information Systems in federal court alleging the company failed to deliver an electronic health records system as promised, the Helena Independent Record reported. Read More »
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Hospital Takes EHR Heavyweight To Court
A rural Montana hospital has filed suit against big name electronic health record system provider NextGen Healthcare, alleging the company violated its contract by both failing to install an EHR system by the set deadline and not providing a system that meets 2014 federal meaningful use criteria. Read More »
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Hospital-Acquired Infections Cost $10 Billion A Year
The five most common infections that patients get after they've been admitted to the hospital cost the U.S. health care system almost $10 billion a year, a new study shows. Read More »
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Hospitals Align To Push For Device Interoperability
A coalition of hospitals and health systems formed this month will push for increased medical device interoperability as a means for improving patient care and lowering costs. Read More »
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Hospitals and Health Systems Moving Ahead on EHR Deployment But Many Are Doubtful on Funding, KPMG Poll Finds
While almost half of business administrators at hospitals or health systems say they are more than half way to completing full electronic health record (EHR) system deployment, many have doubts about the level of funding their organizations have planned to support it, according to the results of a poll conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm. Read More »
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Hospitals Buying More Doctors' Practices
The question is whether costs will decrease, patients will benefit in long run. Hospitals across the country are buying more physician practices as they prepare to move away from fee-for-service reimbursements to a system that pays for treatments focusing on outcomes and cost containment. Read More »
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Hospitals Face Hurricane Sandy Power Outages, Failed Generators
Even with preparation, back-up systems failed at NYU Langone Medical Center last night, forcing the evacuation of all 215 patients to nearby hospitals, including Sloan Kettering and Mount Sinai, The New York Times reported. There were large-scale power failures in critical areas, including the emergency department, the transplant unit and labor and delivery.
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Hospitals Fight Drug Scarcity, Fear Patients Harmed
At the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, pharmacists are using old-fashioned paper spreadsheets to track their stock of drugs in short supply – a task that takes several hours each day...A few hundred medicines make the list of drugs in short supply: anesthetics, drugs for nausea and nutrition, infection treatments and diarrhea pills. A separate list has scarce cancer drugs for leukemia or breast cancer.
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Hospitals Having Trouble Using EHRs To Report Quality Measures, AHA Study Shows
Hospitals—even those with loads of experience using health information technology—are still having a tough time using electronic health-record systems to gather and report clinical quality measures, according to a new report summarizing a study by the American Hospital Association. Read More »
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Hospitals Lagging In Assessing Interoperability Needs
Though healthcare executives understand the importance of timely electronic exchange of information among care providers, nearly half have yet to fully assess their health information exchange and interoperability needs, according to an ECRI Institute survey. Read More »
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Hospitals Must Attest To Meaningful Use By November 30
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind hospitals that the deadline for attestation for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program is November 30. Those who do not attest by that time will not be able to receive a 2013 incentive. Read More »
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Hospitals Often Don't Report Robotic Surgery Adverse Events
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration oversees a database that reports deaths and injuries associated with medical devices, the agency has no authority to force medical providers to contribute to the database. To that end, many hospitals fail to report adverse events associated with robotic surgery procedures, according to a recent Bloomberg investigation. Read More »
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