Good points made here, but they left out one thing, technology and it’s improper use can kill you too. I would almost guess we could go as high as around 50% to find many of the errors stemmed right here. I love technology and what it does, but there are those who don’t and those that resist...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, healthcare, microsoft, medicare, Physicians, Common User Interface, Hospitals, Server 2008, Never-Never, Sepsis, Vanderbilt University, Errors, Human Audit Trail, Patient deaths
Small potatoes maybe in the overall picture, but where I go for health care as far as a hospital may be one of the 50% in this country that are bordering on insolvency, so add on a legal suit to one of the “never-never” rules and then what happens? I am not speaking of wrong side surgeries, but...
Many states have already addressed the issue of not billing patients for medical errors, namely the "8 nevers" that come in to play starting in October from Medicare. Several insurers have also adopted the same policies. Many states are still pondering and working on policies. ...
Desperate hospitals taking desperate measures, with none of this being legal and lead a couple arrests with more to come. Empty beds cost hospitals money, so was this an attempt to fill the beds or fill some pockets. Over 50% of the hospitals in the US border on insolvency. ...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 08-06-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, medicare, Hospitals, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Fraud, Homeless