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Web Exclusive: Using Report Cards to Tell Your Hospital’s Quality Improvement Story
The hospital industry is in the middle of a storm—a "quest for quality" storm. As government and other...
Should patients be told of better care elsewhere?
This New York Times article examines the question of whether part of the informed-consent process is doctors having an...
Health measures prominent among new Florida laws
A handful of new laws are going into effect across Florida, including one that requires hospitals and healthcare...
Ohio legislation threatens reporting plan for hospitals
Legislation pushed by the Ohio Hospital Association threatens to derail an effort to inform consumers about certain...
Web site compares cost, quality among Massachusetts hospitals
A new Web site, www.mass.gov/myhealthcareoptions, compares the cost and quality of care at different Massachusetts...
Penn Medicine to disclose doctors' drug ties
Beginning in spring 2009, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and its health system, known collectively...
Under sweeping settlement, Cephalon will disclose doctor payments
Drugmaker Cephalon is paying $444 million to settle long-running state and federal probes of its sales and marketing...
Posting malpractice payout records evokes big outcry in North Carolina
The North Carolina Medical Board has proposed posting all malpractice payments going back seven years as part of a new...
North Carolina doctors fight malpractice Web site
The North Carolina Medical Board wants to post doctors’ malpractice information on its Web site, but the...
Prescription monitoring program finds success, court battles
Access to the prescription writing habits of physicians is becoming a new battleground. For example, every state in New...