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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: " Medication errors in hospitals don ’t disappear with new technology " . Government: " It ' s the doctors ' fault. " I am cited.
In conclusion:While I wish the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article was longer, in its limited space its author did touch upon the major relevant issues well regarding the PA Patient Safety Authority study and its implications towards national Health IT policy.ONC ' s Dr. Andrew Gettinger ' s responses, however, seems to reflect an unwillingness of he and the government to acknowledge Bad Health IT. His repsonses also appear to show a lack of appreciation of the complaints about EMRs from nearly 40 medical societies. " It ' s the doctors fault " for not training enough.He does acknowledge that better IT would be a g...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 10, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Andrew Gettinger MD Donald Rucker Healthcare IT experiment healthcare IT risk ONC Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Siemens Healthcare Steve Twedt Source Type: blogs
Costs of A Hospital Monopoly in One Underserved County
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
There is a growing body of evidence that hospital mergers lead to higher prices for consumers, employers, insurance, and government. It is imperative to educate patients and lawmakers as to how the consolidation of hospitals and medical practices raise costs, decrease access, eliminate jobs, and ultimately reduce care quality as a result. Lawmakers should focus on this “first pillar” of cost control as they go back to the drawing board.
In 2010, there were 66 hospital mergers in this country. Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect the rate of hospital consolidation has increased by 70...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
DrExit: Costs of A Hospital Monopoly in One Underserved County
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
There is a growing body of evidence that hospital mergers lead to higher prices for consumers, employers, insurance, and government. It is imperative to educate patients and lawmakers as to how the consolidation of hospitals and medical practices raise costs, decrease access, eliminate jobs, and ultimately reduce care quality as a result. Lawmakers should focus on this “first pillar” of cost control as they go back to the drawing board.
In 2010, there were 66 hospital mergers in this country. Since the Affordable Care Act went into effect the rate of hospital consolidation has increased by 7...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Million Jobs in Healthcare ’ s Future
By PRAVEEN SUTHRUM
“The Future is Here. It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.”
It’s true.
Science fiction writer William Gibson said that right. We simply have to look around enough – now – to find out what the future holds.
The future may never be evenly distributed. But it’s surely becoming the present faster.
What would you do when…
Here are a series of what-would-you-do-when questions to think about. Each of these are a reality today, somewhere.
There’s more medical data than insight
Kaiser Permanente presently manages 30 petabytes of data. Images. Lab tests. EHRs. Pat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Radiology Job Market 2016
For the second year running, our overall assessment on the healthcare job market is a positive one. The last ten years taught us, and many others, a valuable lesson. Healthcare is not recession proof, and the fundamental cycle of ups and downs affects us all.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2015 the healthcare sector alone created over 400,000 new jobs. As of February 2016, it ’s estimated that this number might increase to as high as 500,000 by years end. Most of these jobs are being created by hospitals and Ambulatory Health Services facilities, and the current unemployment rate for the healthcare ...
Source: radRounds - November 23, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Dale Hannegan Source Type: blogs
Physicians versus computers – the wrong question!!!
Over the past 2 days, listening to separate podcasts, I have heard the same story and now have a better understanding of artificial intelligence. A Freakonomics podcast – The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think
And in general, what’s happened in the past couple of years is the best chess player on this planet is not an AI. And it’s not a human. It’s the team that he calls centaurs; it’s the team of humans and AI. Because they’re complementary. Because AIs think differently than humans. And the same of the world’s best medical diagnostician is not Watson, it’s not a human doctor. It’s the...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - September 7, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence Will Redesign Healthcare
Artificial intelligence has an unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. I am fully convinced that it will redesign healthcare completely – and for the better. Let’s take a look at the promising solutions it offers.
There are various thought leaders who believe that we are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be hum...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 4, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI big data GC1 google deepmind Healthcare Hospital ibm watson Innovation Source Type: blogs
Extinguishing Medical Errors with Oil and Gas
Unfortunately for patients and healthcare workers alike, medical errors happen. No matter how well-trained and experienced the practitioner, underneath the scrubs there still resides a human and errors will follow. However, systems can be put in place to minimise them and medicine could do well to learn lessons from other industries.
In 2012, there were 107 serious medical errors in Australian hospitals. These ranged from surgery performed on the wrong patient or body part, to surgery where instruments were left inside the patient, to medication errors and in-hospital suicides 1.
When considered in the context of the 53 mi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 3, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tane Eunson Tags: Administration Medical Errors atul gawande O&G oil and gas industry Source Type: blogs
To Identify Patients For Care Management Interventions, Look Beyond Big Data
Five percent of patients incur nearly 50 percent of United States’ health care costs, and there is growing evidence that investing resources in these individuals can improve care while decreasing costs. In kind, provider organizations are increasingly adopting high-risk care management, a strategy that relies on coordinated outpatient care to reduce costly emergency department (ED) visits and inpatient admissions. However, complex care management programs are costly in themselves, so it is important to select patients who are not only high risk but are also most likely to benefit from such programs.
We now have a wea...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 19, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: James Colbert and Ishani Ganguli Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Health IT Health Professionals Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality big data chronic disease coordinated care Hospital readmissions patient use of evidence physici Source Type: blogs
December Man of the Month: David Shaywitz, MD, PhD
David Shaywitz is a man of many talents. He serves as Chief Medical Officer for DNAnexus; writes for Forbes and other publications; is a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School in the area of biomedical informatics and is also involved in the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH), and, of course, he hosts the Tech Tonics podcast with me, Lisa Suennen. I’m so delighted to help feature David as the Man of the Month and to offer this interview, which shows the many different sides of this brilliant and loving man.
How do you define yourself?
I don’t really define myself through any one ro...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Innovation Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
A Radical Policy Proposal: Go Easy On Older Docs
By DIANE EVANS
Through Dec. 15, federal regulators will accept public comments on the next set of rules that will shape the future of medicine in the transition to a super information highway for
Electronic Health Records (EHRs). For health providers, this is a time to speak out.
One idea: Why not suggest options to give leniency to older doctors struggling with the shift to technology late in their careers?
By the government’s own estimate,in a report on A 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure, a fully functioning EHR system, for the cross-sharing of health records among providers, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Diane Evans Source Type: blogs
The Corporate Physicians' Dilemma - Three Hospital Systems Settle Cases Alleging Pressure on Employed Physicians to Refer Patients Within the System
Physicians are sworn to provide the best possible care to each individual patient. Yet in the US, physicians increasingly practice as employees of large organizations, sometime for-profit corporations. Physicians may be in a bind when their bosses pressure them to make patient level decisions so as to increase revenue, regardless of their effects on the patients.In particular, physicians' oaths may suggest that patients who require referrals for consultation, diagnosis or treatment should go to the professionals and facilities best suited to their particular problems. However, physicians bosses may want p...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 27, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Adventist Health System Broward Health corporate physician crime Stark Law Tuomey Healthcare System Source Type: blogs
This story will show you how doctors are like sidewalk jugglers
The job of being a doctor can sometimes be like that of your favorite sidewalk juggler. It used to be that a good family doctor would have to show up in the clinic for a couple of hours, make a few house calls, and be available if anyone needed him while he played a round of golf in the afternoon. (Really, this is quite an exaggeration but it sets the tone.)
In reality, most doctors today must compartmentalize their day, prioritize the patients from most sick to least sick, and then organize a plan of attack that then needs to be carried out with sniper-like precision. (Also a bit of an exaggeration for most doctors. But i...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: David Jones, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
How to Win Friends and Influence Doctors
By EDWARD CORBETT, MD
I remember the meeting as if it were yesterday.
It was a fine, crisp morning. My Health Catalyst team and I were at a new partner hospital with a national reputation, known for its excellent coordinated care and its outstanding performance on key quality measures.
I was looking forward to a low-key presentation. After the meeting, I planned to escape and take a relaxing run and catch the early flight back home.
Unfortunately for me and my running plans, when we began showing some of the data Health Catalyst had compiled, the confrontational questions began:
“And what does that show?”
“What’s t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Health Catalyst Source Type: blogs
