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Doing Things Right: Why Three Hospitals Didn’t Harm My Wife
Michael Millenson Posted 12/04/11 on Kaiser Health News My wife was lying in the back of an ambulance, dazed and bloody, while I sat in the front, distraught and distracted. We had been bicycling in a...
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Tracking Adverse Events
Paul Levy Posted 1/08/12 on Not Running a Hospital A recent report from the Office of Inspector General at the US Department of Health and Human Services finds, unsurprisingly, that hospital incident...
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Flying Blind in Hospitals
Paul Levy Posted 2/5/12 on Not Running a Hospital A recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek reminded me about the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, coming out of a commission established by President...
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Hope Lies with Residents
Paul Levy Posted 3/1/12 on Not Running a Hospital I remain relatively new to the health care field, but even in that short time, it has become evident to me that the pace of quality and safety...
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Why Do Hospitals Still Allow Preventable Adverse Events?
Michael Wong Posted 5/01/12 on The Doctor Weighs In Can Hospitals Afford to Give Away Money? If not, then why are Preventable Adverse Events Still Occur in Hospitals? This are questions that I posed to...
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More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices...
Wendy Lynch Posted 5/01/12 on the Altarum Institute’s Health Policy Forum “I’m thinking of getting a full-body CT scan,” Jane said. “What do you think?” Here was a healthy, active 72-year-old with no...
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