Hospital Care
The tradeoffs of Obamacare
What main stream media misses in the MOC debate
This morning the American Board of Medical Specialties’ (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program debate reached a larger mainstream media audience when the Wall Street Journalpublished their article by Melissa Beck entitled “Skill Reviews Upset Doctors.”
Hill-Rom closes $250M buyout of German OR infrastructure maker Trumpf
Hospitals are looking to cut 15-20% of their costs | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Hospital systems are looking to make major cuts to their spending as Medicare dollars become more scarce, and that means shrinking budgets for purchasing medical devices and other products.
Should cardiologists boycott the 2014 TCT/ACC Conference?
Travelers holds out on BD’s $67M coverage claim
The game of numbers
The dark underbelly of health care is becoming all too visible now.
Fresh faces in neatly pressed white coats are in the halls. Eager. Enthusiastic. Clearly very bright. All hoping for a moment, an experience, an encounter that makes all their hard work worth it. Surely they’ll have one, but not before the thousands of keyboard clicks, the mandatory lectures, rounds and lots of lengthy, lonely call nights.
Toward better care models for medically complex children
Healthcare’s ‘sloppy’ with security, hacker says | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Tasked with evaluating various hospitals’ digital defenses, security expert and professional hacker Scott Erven found that sensitive networks are rife with vulnerabilities that could leave the entire system exposed.