Hospital Care
The importance of demonizing specialists
Affordable Care Act update: What’s next for children, hospitals, insurers?
By Scott Howe
It’s been a few months since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health exchanges opened for business, and there’s still a lot of speculation on how the bill will affect children, hospitals and insurers.
Hospital’s Intuitive Surgical ad raises eyebrows | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Questions about an ad featuring Intuitive Surgical’s (NSDQ:ISRG) da Vinci robot-assisted surgical system have gotten the University of Illinois’ medical center into hot water.
A quarter of N.Y. diagnostic catheters were unnecessary, study says | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — New York researchers unveiled in a recent report that as many as 25% of recent diagnostic catheterizations performed in state hospitals were conducted in patients who didn’t meet criteria for the procedure, as rated by newly published standards.
Crunching the autism equation in the DSM-5 era
By Alal Eran
Alal Eran, PhD, studies the molecular basis of autism at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
I’m sorry, please don’t sue me: Do medical apologies avert malpractice claims?
By Scott Howe
Apologizing for a mistake is always a good idea. With a sincere "I’m sorry," you acknowledge that harm’s been done, take responsibility for your actions and start to move forward. But for medical professionals, apologizing – something avoided in the past – can have an added benefit: it can discourage malpractice lawsuits.
I-PASS electronic nightly family signout: Empowering families of hospitalized children
By Alisa Khan
CareFusion closes Vital Signs purchase
CareFusion (NYSE:CFN) said it completed a deal with GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) to acquire Vital Signs for $500 million.
3 healthcare trends patients will notice in the new year
As we enter the New Year, I like to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re heading in medicine. By far and away, this is the most tumultuous time I have ever experienced in health care. Doctors and nurses appear stressed and downtrodden, administrators are running scared, desperate to seem "value-added," and patients are scrambling to get seen in these last two days of 2013.