Quality of Care
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I posted a piece that was published on FastCompany site at the end of last month: Could The Future Of Health Care Mean No Waits In Hospitals? It included a link to an original concept from the innovative Kaiser founder Dr Sidney R. Garfield I shared this with my wife who is an accomplished midwife […]
Some interesting news pieces to review this week including The Value of the EHR “The Relationship Between Electronic Health Records and Malpractice Claims,” from the Archives of Internal Medicine on Jun 25 and featured in the AMED News: “EHR use linked to fewer medical liability claims” on July 16 A research letter published online June […]
and improve the quality of healthcare!HealthImaging featured a report Medical errors cost U.S. $17 billion in 2008 which estimated that This figure amounted to 0.72 percent of the $2.39 trillion spent on healthcare that year in the U.S. The study identified the sources based on medical claims estimating: 564,000 inpatient injuries (1.5 percent of all […]
Headlines this week have provided much confusion in the march towards digitization of healthcare that were based on a Stanford study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine: Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision Support Systems with a conclusion: Our findings indicate no consistent association between EHRs and CDS and better quality. These results raise concerns about the ability […]
