This is a good post from the Happy Hospitalists and touches on some of the same areas discussed here with reference to never-never events as well as areas of responsibility and the finances. There are some real gray areas with the never-never events and the comments made herein substantiate this...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, healthcare, medicare, Physicians, Medical Errors, Hospitalists, Never-Never, deperate hospitals
One more reason it may be hard to find a primary care physician that will take Medicare, part of the issues lie with the new Medicare contractor for the area as well, big transition when getting data bases connected and data aligned. I have myself heard the same complaints from physicians offices...
A qualified system is not faxing! Many offices who are set up with an EMR or EHR are already covered and are either set up and ready to go or have the capabilities. For those who are not, there’s a permanent link on this page to NEPSI, the free e-prescribing initiative where you can sign...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, healthcare, medicare, health insurance, Physicians, Prescriptions, e-prescribing
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
The insurance executives have taken the medical decisions and good medical care out control of clinicians, pretty simple. Have you had a surgical procedure lately? I had one surgeon recently tell me of procedures lined up by the hour, seven knees in seven hours, now does that make sense? ...
How many doctors take Medicare? According to this article, in Texas, 58%. Thank goodness Congress acted on the legislation yesterday not to cut physician compensation, but this is the picture here as it stands today in Texas. The numbers shown are from the Texas Medical Association...
I have already posted about the failure to pass, but wanted add the comments from another site here, from the physician’s prospectus…the site has the entire break down on which voted against the bill, so there’s a list of Senators who might be able to use a little contact. The question is what...