By Maureen McKinney | September 01, 2012
| Print Magazine
Imagine a hospital where the ICU's myriad devices seamlessly exchange data and where a patient's loss of dignity is viewed as a preventable harm on the same order as a fall or a bloodstream infection. FULL STORY »
Economists, physicians and policymakers have put forward alternative arguments for how to best curb health spending in separate papers published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. FULL STORY »
Though they're at the low end of the physician pay scale, pediatricians are often found in leading activist or management roles in the healthcare system. FULL STORY »
The biggest news at the American Health Lawyers Association annual meeting took place almost exactly 24 hours after the Chicago conference concluded on June 27, as the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 upheld the most controversial aspects of the much-maligned healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
"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... FULL STORY »
Making healthcare better, cheaper and more coordinated for everyone is an attainable goal right now, but it won't stay that way forever, former CMS Administrator Dr. Donald Berwick told a keynote audience Monday at the annual meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association. FULL STORY »
Massachusetts' struggle to contain healthcare costs—now focused on the Legislature’s attempts to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the healthcare cost-containment legislation—is about managing the "common pool resource" that fuels healthcare: our wages. FULL STORY »
By Maureen McKinney | May 19, 2012
| Print Magazine
On the morning of March 27, a group of 46 quality improvement professionals gathered in a brightly lit conference room on the ground floor of a large hotel near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. FULL STORY »
A U.S. district judge in Baltimore has dismissed a lawsuit filed by six primary-care doctors who were seeking to end the CMS' use of the American Medical Association Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee to determine its annual Physician Fee Schedule. FULL STORY »
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