Feedback Form
Join, Follow & Connect
Join Modern Healthcare's LinkedIn group Follow Modern Healthcare on Twitter Join Modern Healthcare's Facebook group Follow Modern Healthcare's Pinterest board Modern Healthcare's Flickr page Modern Healthcare's YouTube Channel Get a Modern Healthcare news feed
 
Modern Healthcare News
 
RSS feed

Safety-Quality Latest News news and information

Information
Psychiatry's guide is out of touch with science, experts say
By New York Times | May 07, 2013
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, a prominent expert says the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity.”
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Information
Feds: Hepatitis B no barrier to health practice
By Mark Rubinkam / Associated Press | May 05, 2013
Peter Nguyen was a promising medical student when his school learned that he had tested positive for the hepatitis B virus. He said he was blackballed by school administrators and forced to halt his studies.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Information
Debate rages after FDA ruling on morning-after pill
By Beth J. Harpaz / Associated Press | May 04, 2013
Allison Guarino understands the controversy over new rules allowing 15-year-olds to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription. But as someone who teaches pregnancy prevention to ninth-graders in Boston, she thinks lowering the age will "help the girls who need the help the most."
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Information
U.S. to delete data on life-threatening mistakes from website
By Bloomberg.com | May 03, 2013
Two years ago, over objections from the hospital industry, the U.S. announced it would add data about “potentially life-threatening” mistakes made in hospitals to a website people can search to check on safety performance. Now the CMS is planning to strip the site of the eight...
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Information
Justice Department appeals morning-after case
By Associated Press | May 02, 2013
The Obama administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's order to lift all age limits on who can buy morning-after birth control pills without a prescription.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 


Advertisement | View Media Kit

News
Surgical mortality stats at CAHs on par with bigger hospitals
By Maureen McKinney | May 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
While recent research showed small, rural hospitals registered worse mortality outcomes than their larger urban and suburban counterparts, they fare no worse than their larger counterparts on mortality following common, low-risk surgical procedures, such as appendectomy and knee replacement.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
Reform Update: CMS plans changes to performance pay, penalties
By Maureen McKinney | April 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In its newly released proposed inpatient hospital payment rule for 2014, the CMS plans a slew of performance-based payment changes, including a penalty program for hospital-acquired conditions and updates to the agency's readmissions reduction program that would expand the parameters for...
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
Lawmakers seek new rules for compounders
By Jaimy Lee | April 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A new draft bill would establish different regulations for traditional compounding pharmacies and what the legislation is calling “compounding manufacturers,” the large-scale compounders that mix and ship sterile drugs across state lines.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

News
Lawmakers urge national drug-tracking system
By Jaimy Lee | April 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
House lawmakers pressed a Food and Drug Administration official on the need for a federal “track-and-trace” system that would boost the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain in the U.S. at a time when counterfeit or substandard drugs are increasingly of concern.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Information
More video recording by doctors urged to improve patient safety
By Los Angeles Times | April 24, 2013
Doctors increasingly treat people using tiny cameras, and some patient-safety experts are urging physicians to hit the record button.
FULL STORY »
Share    Comment
 

Search ModernHealthcare.com:



Daily Dose MH Alert MH AM HITS Modern Physician Most Requested

LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr News Feeds Google Plus Page - Publisher

 

Switch to the new Modern Healthcare Daily News app

For the best experience of ModernHealthcare.com on your iPad, switch to the new Modern Healthcare app — it's optimized for your device but there is no need to download.