New $2.8-million gene therapy becomes most expensive medicine in history
“The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first [MORE]
Operating room
Hospitals, particularly those in multiple hospital systems, have tremendous incentive to move surgeries through operating rooms as quickly as [MORE]
This piece is not our usual subject matter, but it does impact an enormous sector of healthcare. Most hospitals in [MORE]
Handheld Electronic Device
Cleveland Clinic doesn’t grasp at every healthcare innovation, but when it sees a technology that can efficiently and [MORE]
mHealth
Becker’s Hospital Review is a champ when it comes to taking a complex subject and organizing it in an easy-to-grasp [MORE]
Inpatient Care
Hospitals make money by admitting patients, performing surgical and surgery-related services, and discharging the person as quickly as possible. [MORE]
Surgical Suite
This listing of just 20 surgical procedures accounts for 58% of costs for all hospital surgeries and 27% of [MORE]
Because every “cost-saving” innovation has to address healthcare economics, this graphic should be useful in explaining which metric a [MORE]
Cerner Patient Portal_
Two organizations—the Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) and the Center for Connected Health (Boston, MA)—have [MORE]
Intelligent-Insites
Hospitals have several operating rooms, and health systems can have many dozens of them. They are the chief [MORE]
“Toyota,” “Lean” and “Six Sigma” are manufacturing concepts aimed at improving efficiency and quality in making inanimate products [MORE]
The rapid implementation of novel cost saving and quality improving health care technologies is hindered by skepticism from insurance [MORE]
Neonate
Universal genetic testing has existed in the US since 1970, using Guthrie cards for neonatal screening (for up to [MORE]
This piece raises the question of social factors, like employment, home location, etc, being relevant to hospital readmissions which [MORE]