Atul Gawande news and information

When it comes to the Grammy Awards, even Dr. Atul Gawande likes to get his Twitter on.
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By using simulation technology, researchers were able to show something previously thought impossible to prove: the benefits of using surgical checklists in an operating room emergency.
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Following are the titles and affiliations for the 100 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare for 2013.
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Three very different healthcare conferences are going on this week in Chicago, but speakers at each one had a similar message: Throughout history and even today, the healthcare industry has been slow to adopt innovations that it would eventually benefit from.
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The fact that the most expensive surgical treatments do not lead to the best outcomes should be viewed as reason for hope, Dr. Atul Gawande told attendees Tuesday at the American College of Surgeons' annual clinical congress in Chicago.
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With the recent passing of Jerry Nelson, the voice of Sesame Street's Count von Count, I'm compelled to note that the 2012 edition of Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list had 18 first-timers, eight 11-timers, 78 men, 22 women and 25 doctors (20 men and five women).
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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"You've boarded a boat, and you don't know where it's going," Dr. Donald Berwick told Harvard Medical School graduates in a speech published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, but, he added, you still made "a...
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The Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare for 2012, presented in alphabetical order
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As Congress grapples with a tight deadline to curb healthcare-fueled deficits, a group of prominent economists and health policy experts last week launched an effort to more closely examine a larger, less transparent segment of the industry's costs: the privately insured.
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