POSTS TAGGED AS Quality healthcare

Geisinger’s Refund Policy

Refund
Tagline’s usual beat is medicine’s science and technology, which this story doesn’t address. Rather it speaks to the art of [MORE]

Sources of Errors

None of this will come as a surprise, but errors in patient care commonly arise from six human sources: [MORE]

Top 10 US Healthcare Systems

Using publicly-available MedPAR data, business analysts at Thomson Reuters rated hospital systems (not individual hospitals) based on in-hospital mortality, [MORE]

World’s Largest Telepharmacy, the US Navy

Telepharmacy System – ScriptPro
With pharmacies on ships at sea and in bases, including hospitals, around the world, the US Navy’s [MORE]

Green Hospitals

If you heard that the German industrial giant Siemens was going to build a hospital that would be a [MORE]

Insurer Funds Hospital Quality Improvement Studies

California’s largest health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross (Woodlands Hills, CA) has appropriated $6m for on-line quarterly conferences with doctors [MORE]

Digital Patients: Digital Care, Denmark

Denmark’s national health system is tax-financed, even if perceived to be “free.”  For that reason, the Danish government has [MORE]

Healthcare Reform, as Brooking’s Sees It

The healthcare debate recalls that old saw that every man has an idea that won’t work.  But among the flurry [MORE]

Bedsores on the Rise

In the wake of Medicare’s new rule that it will no longer reimburse hospitals for patients’ pressure ulcers acquired during [MORE]