Action for Better Healthcare
The future of healthcare reform appears at best uncertain. But recent interviews with President Obama and leaders of Congress seem to indicate that perhaps we can get a scaled down version of reform passed sometime this year.
According to the American Hospital Association, the White House is asking hospitals that wish to make donations to the Haitian earthquake relief effort to register online.
For years, some physicians and hospitals wouldn’t dare admit blame for medical errors, due to fear of being sued. But some now say it is good business to apologize when things go wrong.
Have you ever been hospitalized for major surgery and wondered about the team in the room operating on you? If you are not a healthcare worker, you may not realize that often that team in the operating room includes a medical sales rep that helps guide the doctor through the procedure.
Wondering what healthcare will look like in 2010? Every year PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute publishes a report outlining the key issues facing the health industry for the coming year.
It’s important not to lose sight of a few crucial details that must be included in any final healthcare reform bill if change is really going to become a reality.
Well-known and well-respected surgeon Atul Gawande, MD, is discussing healthcare reform and his opinion is worth reading. He helps put health reform costs in perspective in his latest article for The New Yorker.
On Manhattan’s Upper East Side an imaging center exists and patients may not know it, but there are two doors. One door is for patients who are paying cash. The other is for patients covered by insurance.
We still have several hurdles to jump before healthcare reform becomes a reality but despite the work ahead of Congress, hospitals and their leaders need to prepare for changes coming down the pipeline.
In a New England Journal of Medicine poll released this week we learned that a strong majority of doctors (63 percent) support a public health insurance option.