Hospital Care
How to solve the doctor burn-out problem
Solving patient engagement: It’s about the data
By Tom Ulrich
At the start of today’s National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 panel on patient engagement, healthcare journalist Carey Goldberg offered up a personal anecdote about engagement – or the lack of it – in medical care:
DNR orders and end-of-life decisions for children: The elephant in the room
Amy Sanderson, MD, is a critical care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital whose research interests include developing and studying interventions to improve the quality of communication among clinicians, parents and children with life-threatening illnesses.
What keeps me up at night – Fall 2013
Now that Labor Day has come and gone, I’ve thought about the months ahead and the major challenges I’ll face.
1. Mergers and Acquisitions
Medtronic: Rented surgical kit may have been contaminated with fatal brain disease
Corrected September 6, 2013, at 11:30 a.m.
Study: GlySure’s continuous glucose monitoring looks good in the ICU
Medtronic launches hospital solutions arm, touts 1st cath-lab management deals
MassDevice.com Q&A: Venaxis CEO Steve Lundy
Of the 10.5 million cases of abdominal pain that present in American emergency rooms each year, only about 300,000 end up being confirmed as appendicitis. That means an expensive glut of ultimately unnecessary – and potentially cancer-causing – CT scans performed in ERs.
Medicare lays down the law on excessive hospital readmissions | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Hospitals across the country are feeling the heat for potentially unwarranted patient readmissions as more than 2,000 care centers are punished with a total of $227 million in fines.
The charges reflect Medicare’s penalty program, designed to encourage hospitals to emphasize quality of care over the number of patients treated.
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TYRX lands FDA win for antibacterial surgical envelope
The FDA granted 510(k) to New Jersey-based TYRX for its next-generation AIGISRx R Antibacterial Envelope, indicated to address high infection rates after pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation surgeries.