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A comment on The Dangers of Coumadin

Mike Byroads — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:31:30 GMT

What is a dangerous INR?

A comment on Who should pay for "never events," medical errors so obvious that they should never occur?

jeff — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:53:26 GMT

An important subject-actually the number of people dying in hospitals as a result of misdiagnosis,prescription errors, surgical errors and infection account for 100,000 plus today, that is one jumbo jet a day crashing with no survivors for one year!!!. The ariline and aviation industry just would not accept that nor should we relative to hospital care. However, we have to take part of the responsibility and be more empowered in our own healthcare and work as a team with healthcare providers to work to improvement.
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A comment on Nurse to Patient Ratios and Quality Health Care in Ohio

Scott Hodson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:19:28 GMT

Many American health systems are significantly underinvested in quality management Infrastructure, Process, and Organization. To achieve breakthrough improvements in quality, patient safety, and resource utilization hospitals and health systems must develop a "world class" quality management foundation that includes:

Strategy: including a clear linkage of quality and patient safety to the organizational strategy and a Board-driven imperative to achieve quality goals.

Infrastructure: incorporating effective quality management technology, EMR and physician order entry, evidence based care development tools and methodologies, and quality performance metrics and monitoring technology that enables "real time" information.

Process: including concurrent intervention, the ability to identify key quality performance "gaps," and performance improvement tools and methodologies to effectively eliminate quality issues.

Organization: providing sufficient number and quality of human resources to deliver quality planning and management leadership, adequate informatics management, effective evidence based care and physician order set development, performance improvement activity, and accredition planning to stay "survey ready every day."

Culture: where a passion for quality and patient safety is embedded throughout the delivery system and leaders are incented to achieve aggressive quality improvement goals.

My firm has assisted a number of progressive health systems to achieve such a foundation, and to develop truly World Class Quality.

A comment on Greedy Insurance Companies Squeeze Doctors to Pad Their Own Pockets

Surgical Professional — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:15:56 GMT

I see this happen each day in ABSOLUTELY EVERY SURGERY in Orthopaedics! In Illinois, Blue Cross/Blue Shield has limited their payout for an ACL reconstruction to JUST $1,400!!!! That doesn't cover the price of the implants used to fixate the new graft alone! Nor does it cover even the price of the allograft tissue alone! The poor surgeons are forced to choose the lowest priced implants for fixation of the graft, the lowest priced are the oldest on the market with the most harm to the patient as they fail and loosen post-operatively! They either stay away from using allograft or they use the cheapest company, and you all know the problems with these allograft companies. Blue Cross/Shield is full of scumbags, I'd like to see one of these bean counters cry/beg and plead for the best care when it's one of them on the O.R. table! Someone needs to fight for the Doctors for once and let them use what is BEST FOR THE PATIENT NOT WHAT IS BEST FOR THE INSURANCE COMPANY!!!! Blue Cross will simply NOT APPROVE the fixation the surgeon wants, and noone can expect a surgeon to pay for every single patient.. it would cost him/her 20 million a year!

A comment on Greedy Insurance Companies Squeeze Doctors to Pad Their Own Pockets

Jack Landskroner — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:24:29 GMT

A unified front between Physicians and Attorneys is the only way to combat the powerful insurance industry. If the respective leaders from The Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the American Medical Association can discuss our common goals and initiate a joint legislative push through grass roots efforts and lobbying we can make headway.

In my mind, a starting point is a coordinated national effort forcing the Insurance Industry to comply with Antitrust regulations. If collusion is eliminated in the industry and insurance carriers are forced to truly compete in the open marketplace, we are likely to see cheaper malpractice insurance premiums and higher reimbursements to doctors.

A comment on Medical Malpractice: Defense Refuses $275,000, Jury Says $28 Million

Jack Landskroner — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:06:48 GMT

The Independent Urologist may be correct. There are many honorable physicians that have stepped up and taken responsibility after committing an error in practice which resulted in harm to a patient. That is the very reason Drs. buy insurance. Unfortunately, the physicians are at the mercy of insurance companies. They buy expensive policies only to find that when they file a claim their insurance company does not support their position and is not interested in protecting the insured doctor or doing right by the injured patient.

A comment on Medical Malpractice: Defense Refuses $275,000, Jury Says $28 Million

The Independent Urologist — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:38:29 GMT

Maybe the doctor wanted to settle, but the insurance company would not. Again, the doctor is but a pawn in the game.

A comment on Greedy Insurance Companies Squeeze Doctors to Pad Their Own Pockets

The Independent Urologist — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:28:58 GMT

I could not agree more. In general I have always felt that the insurance industry is the one that is squeezing us. I suspect that an OB would care less about paying $125K per year if their reimburement rates, or anyone elses, were fair. A good attorney is a doctors best friend. But how do we fight the insurance industry together?

A comment on Tissue Supplier Reports Infection From Cadaver Tissue Prompting Recall

Bruce S. Skinner, M.D. — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:22:23 GMT

I have been monitoring MTF's website for any updates or mentions, nothing so far. I guess their damage control idea is to just pretend it didn't happen, let it blow over, with only that mention in the AP report, that it was the first time they have ever had such a problem. I checked the AATB site also, no mention.