Aggressive care is said to generate mistakes that result in 30,000 deaths annually. California's three biggest health care purchasers unite to make changes.
Among the “low value” tests and treatments researchers studied, black and Hispanic beneficiaries were significantly more likely than whites to receive many of them.
Volunteers now are using their professional and life experience skills to better assist healthcare systems with their strategies and initiatives. Some of the newer volunteer roles include Patient/Family Advisory Council members. The partnership betwe...
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether pens result in improved adherence for long-acting basal insulin administration as compared with vials in elderly Medicare patients.
Women are underrepresented in physician leadership. Exploring the issue, researchers created a study focused on developing successful skills, behaviors and attitudes for 15 first-year female residents.
Clinically integrated networks are changing the practice of medicine. Throughout the country, these physician-led organizations are taking the lead in improving the value of health care. Here’s how some of them are doing it.
This article reviews what medical providers and suppliers need to know about the September 2016 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-issued final Emergency Preparedness Rule. This rule outlines the requirements for all providers and suppliers in ...
The potential risk to physicians alleged to be negligent has resulted in a clinical entity called medical malpractice stress syndrome; it is a “forme fruste” of posttraumatic stress disorder.
This article discusses how employers too often create binding contracts of which they are completely unaware—until the employee or former employee seeks to enforce the “contract” and collect on the liabilities the organization did not know it had.
