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Medicare Ups the Ante on Medical Mistakes -- But Risks Going Too Far

Two weeks after health plans like Wellpoint announced they would follow Medicare's lead in refusing to pay for eight preventable medical problems in hospitals, Medicare has upped the ante by proposing nine more conditions for which it won't fully reimburse hospitals, including surgical infections, wild swings...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Incentive, Patient, Hospital, Medicare, Health Care, Roy Poses, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton

Blog posts 2008-04-17

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Health Wonk Review: Business Edition, Aug. 2008

The biweekly healthcare blog carnival Health Wonk Review is up, and although I'm a tad late, here are some of the highlights from a business perspective: Roy Poses of Health Care Renewal recounts the story of Rodney Miller, an administrator at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.,...

Tags: Health Care, Poses, NICE, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton

Blog posts 2008-08-11

"Never Events" and Hospital Infections -- An Impossible Goal?

I've written sympathetically about the efforts of Medicare and private insurers such as WellPoint to eliminate avoidable medical errors -- particularly so-called "never events," such as surgery on the wrong side of the body or operations that leave sponges or instruments inside the patient -- by refusing to pay for...

Tags: Infection, Patient, Hospital, Event, Healthcare, Security, David P. Hamilton

Blog posts 2008-08-31

Irrational Exuberance over Electronic Medical Records?

When President-elect Obama outlined his economic stimulus package earlier this month, he emphasized the need to invest in the healthcare system's infrastructure by pushing for electronic health records EHR, nationwide:   "We will make sure that every doctor's office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic...

News items 2009-08-07

Republican Conferees Encourage Energy Independence, Defund Saddam Hussein's Dictatorship by Developing Domestic Resources

News Advisory: House Republican Conferees including Chief Deputy Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Reps. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.), George Radanovich (R-Calif.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), Joe Barton (R-Texas), Frank Lucas (R- Okla.), Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Senate Conferees including Sens. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.) will be discussing the...

Tags: Republican, U.S. Senate

Research articles 2002-06-18

Republican Conferees Encourage Energy Independence, Defund Saddam Hussein's Dictatorship by Developing Domestic Resources (UPDATE)

News Advisory: House Republican Leadership and Conferees including Chief Deputy Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Reps. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.), Jim Hansen (R- Utah), George Radanovich (R-Calif.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), Joe Barton (R-Texas), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R- Texas) and Senate Conferees including Sens. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Craig...

Tags: Leadership, Republican, U.S. Senate

Research articles 2002-06-19

Supreme Court Hears Bilski Case

High court takes on the question of just what is patentable with business method patents coming under scrutiny. The court's ultimate opinion -- due in June -- could invalidate thousands of software patents.The Supreme Court heard arguments Nov. 9 in a case the technology industry is closely watching to clarify...

Tags: Patent, U.S. Supreme Court, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Business Method

News items 2009-11-09