Flurry of Federal and State probes Target Insulin Drugmakers and Pharma Middlemen
Insulin makers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi and top pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health are targets in the state investigations. Several of the financial filings note that the state and federal prosecutors want information regarding specific insulins for specific dates in relation to “trade practices.”
Depressed Nurses Make More Medical Errors
Nurses in poorer health had an up to 71% higher likelihood of reporting medical errors than did her healthier peers.
Medical Physicists Bring New Value to Patient-Centered Care
Faced with broad and profound changes in the delivery of healthcare—including declining reimbursements and new mandates to deliver value-based, personalized, and evidence-based medicine—healthcare is benefiting from the growing contributions of medical physicists.
Some Infection Prevention Guidelines Remain Stubbornly Unclear
In the absence of adequate published guidance, Iowa researchers produce a five-tiered classification of procedures, encompassing “clean, aseptic, sterile-superficial, sterile-invasive,” and “surgical-like procedures.”
Saving Blood: The Relatively Simple Task of Blood Management
RBC transfusion have increased 134% between 1997 to 2011 to become the most frequently performed hospitals procedure in America. And while they are a vital tool for treating patients, they come with potential risks like allergic reactions, fever, and infection.
Preventing Patient Identification Errors
Before organizations can find solutions to patient identification errors, a root cause analysis based on past misidentifications should be conducted.
Las Vegas Faced a Massacre. Did It Have Enough Trauma Centers?
What matters most is not the number of high-level centers, but the degrees of coordination across the area’s medical network, including the first responders.
Clinical Trials, Genetic Testing, and Personalized Medicine
As medicine marches toward its embrace of personalized medicine and immunotherapy, researchers struggle to obtain meaningful discoveries that can be applied to the ever-expanding number of patient cohorts.
Extra Attention to High Risk Patients Saves Money, Improves Outcomes
A California physician network is reducing utilization by providing special attention to patients most at risk for readmission after hospitalization.
A Call for Standards, Auditing of Hospital Quality Data
Quality data looks good in ads and on hospital and health system websites. A little too good at times.