patient safety
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Post-Acute
AHCA/NCAL Kick Off Summer with Award Announcements
Recipients will be acknowledged during the organization's annual Congressional Briefing.
Strategy
Will a 'National Patient Safety Board,' Modeled After the NTSB, Actually Fly?
Stakeholders warn that public reporting would compromise data integrity by leading hospitals to scrub records to hide bad events.
Pharma
Seeking Meaningful Work, Chinook Therapeutics CEO Takes on Kidney Disease
Chinook Therapeutics President & CEO Eric Dobmeier's focus has been on finding where he can make a difference.
Clinical Care
The Exec: How to Promote Population Health
To promote population health, healthcare organizations need to serve their population as a whole, a top Sentara Health executive says.
Revenue Cycle
GI Docs Rail Against UHC's Looming Prior Authorization Mandate
GI docs say the payer is using AI to move large volumes of services through prior authorization.
Strategy
Abortion Bans Are Driving Off Doctors and Closing Clinics, Putting Basic Healthcare at Risk
Payer
In the 'Wild West' of Outpatient Vascular Care, Doctors Can Reap Huge Payments as Patients Risk Life and Limb
CMS data suggests that from 2017 to 2021 90 physicians billed for more than a third of all procedures and...
Technology
Iowa Health System Sees Benefits from Data-Driven Surgery
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is using technology in the OR to study how surgical procedures are done, with...
Clinical Care
Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.
Doctors told her she might die but she couldn't have an abortion under state law until she got sicker, documents...
Clinical Care
The Exec: 'It Is Important to Have a Just Culture'
At UW Health, the process to address medical errors is not punitive.
Technology
How Sky Lakes Medical Center Overcame a Ransomware Attack
The Oregon hospital's director of information systems talks about lessons learned from a 2020 attack by Russian hackers that forced...
Clinical Care
Leapfrog Leader: Hospitals Experience 'Major Setback' in Patient Safety
The coronavirus pandemic compromised the ability of hospitals to work on patient safety, the president and CEO of The Leapfrog...