With the new “never-never” provisions of Medicare and insurers now not paying for procedures that entail errors, like leaving an instrument or sponge inside a patient, products such as this one are sure to pick up some momentum, wave the magic wand over the area of the body to see if anything is left...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-08-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, medicare, RFID, Safety, Never-Never, surgical sponges
33% found a big part of the right answer - software. Business Intelligence software for a hospital is something you almost can't live without, otherwise the audits can do what they just accomplished. The auditors will have the software to come in and audit with, so why not get a step...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-18-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Hospital, Business Intelligence, bankruptcy, Medicare contractor, Auditors
The hospitals in San Diego all still share on paper. Technology is not the problem here, it has to do more with incentives, for one why would 2 competing hospitals want to share, and I say this from a business standpoint only, as reflected in the article. The next question is who...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 07-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, PHR