by Marshall Allen, ProPublica
Patient Safety
A problem for all of us: Philips Healthcare on joining the Patient Safety Movement
Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) this month joined a coalition of medtech companies and healthcare stakeholders in vowing to eliminate preventable hospital deaths by the year 2020.
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Former Pres. Clinton: If you hate the medtech tax, find a pay-for | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Former President Bill Clinton spoke openly before an audience of healthcare stakeholders in Laguna Beach, Calif., this weekend, saying bluntly that efforts to repeal the medical device tax must come with a strategy to make up the lost funds.
"You’ve got medical device people, they hate the tax," Clinton said during the weekend’s Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. "If you want to get rid of it you’ve got to say how you’d replace it."
Simple test could save 2,000 newborns per year, so why don’t more hospitals do it?
Thousands of newborn babies die or suffer serious illness each year for want of a cheap, readily available medical device to test for congenital heart disease, according to neonatal health experts.
Nearly 30 device makers pledge to share data to make patients safer
The growing Patients Safety Movement has more than doubled its commitments from medtech companies over the course of a single year, with nearly 30 companies promising so far to make the data gathered by their devices available to anyone interested in improving patient care.
BREAKING: Philips Healthcare signs Patient Safety Movement’s data openness pledge
Technology giant Philips Healthcare (NYSE:PHG) is 1 of the newest companies pledging to open up the data gathered by its medical devices in the interest of patient safety, MassDevice.com learned today.