Hospital Care
How big data’s fueling complacency
"What’s the most important finding on this chest x-ray?"
There he was, standing before 5 ICU residents, each peering at a chest film on displayed on the over-sized computer screen.
"Um, the pleural effusion?" whimpered a third-year resident.
Liability reform: It’s coming
A collision is coming.
Scratch that.
The collision is here.
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I’m not quite sure how to describe this, but I’ll try.
Philips mulls a name-change to highlight its diversity | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Global healthcare titan Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG), which has a sizable footprint in the medtech world, is considering a formal name-change to better illustrate the diversity of the company’s businesses.
Premier healthcare alliance awards new radiation treatment system contract to member hospital
Group purchasing organization Premier inked a contract with Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) for radiation treatment planning.
Value cases for clinical documentation improvement
As BIDMC prepares for ICD10, we’re examining the entire clinical documentation process and asking how best to leverage the work we must do to support ICD10 with the innovations we believe will transform our workflow.
The exodus begins
Big, important doctors are leaving medicine.
Like Steve Ondra,MD, a neurosurgeon and principle physician architect of our new health care law, the Affordable Care Act.
And where’s he going?
Hip implant costs are a medical mystery, study says | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — A Washington University project intended to uncover the cost of hip replacement procedures made the unindented discovery that around half of the hospitals could provide no estimates.
Among the more than 100 hospitals contacted by the researcher, those that could provide figures ranged from around $11,000 to more than $125,000.
By the numbers
Diagnosis codes: numbers.
Procedure codes: numbers.
Spreadsheets of one’s "productivity:" numbers.
Spreadsheets of RVU’s: numbers.
Spreadsheets of total office visits: numbers.
Spreadsheets of new office visits: numbers.
Spreadsheets of complications: numbers.
Spreadsheets of new codes on top of old codes: nothing more than more numbers.
Patient safety and the ethics of EMR implementation
When doctors feel pain after a medical mistake
by Blair Hickman, ProPublica