The feds prepare the next phase in their transformation of the health care industry with the release of proposed new Prospective Payment System (PPS) rules published May 4th in the Federal Register (I found the proposed rule using the Justia search engine mentioned yesterday). The Home Care Automation Report reports:
CMS has done no more or […]
Boston Scientific announced this week the release of data from the first 10,000 patients enrolled in their RAPID-RF study. Of course the announcement is everywhere - the actual data is no where to be found (perhaps the results printed on dead trees are available at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting this week).
The idea here […]
Wireless Healthcare reports that startup Biosigns Technologies successfully validated the accuracy of their noninvasive continuous glucose meter in a study including 120 participants with blood glucose levels ranging between 3.5 and 27.4 mmol/L. The Biosign device, called the UFIT, also measures heart rate and blood pressure, but the released study results do not include accuracy data for those […]
Health Affairs reports on nursing issues - the House of Representatives is looking to enact the Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007 (H.R. 2122) to limit the amount of mandatory overtime a nurse may be required to work.
According to CQ HealthBeat, Stark said, “We limit the time that truck drivers and pilots can […]
There's lots of good news today, so let's get started. In fact there's lots of good news almost every day - but who's got time? I try my best to drink from the fire hose of news when I can. And one area that I've avoided all together is the content that's published every day […]
There is a big gap world wide in hospitals between the care delivered in critical care areas and the care delivered in general patient care areas. Critical care units have all the latest toys like $38,000 patient monitors, 1:1 or 1:2 nurse to patient ratios, they deliver the most sophisticated drug therapies and can perform […]
Wow, I was just looking through my server logs and saw a visitor clicked on blog entry number 1,000! Last Saturday was a mile stone for this site. Since starting in late 2004, I've written 1,002 posts (including this one), and enjoyed almost 140,000 unique visits. In the lower right hand column there's also a […]
Today was a sunny spring day in Pittsburgh. The conference is being held in the David L. Lawrence convention center - where 4 months ago a 20×60 foot slab of concrete fell 30 feet to the street below; something about a dangling cherry-picker. After a bit of retrofitting, things are better than new (hopefully).
Michael DeVita […]
I have encouraged many people whose insights and opinions I value to start their own blog. As easy as blogging is, it seems to take a certain kind of person who really likes to do it. Recently two new blogs have hit the Internet, John Zaleski's MedicInfoTech blog, and Vince Kuraitis' e-CareManagement blog.
John Zaleski is […]
I'll be attending the international conference focused on pre-attack intervention of at-risk patients in an effort to reduce adverse events and eventual failure to rescue. Here's how the conference describes it:
Rapid Response Systems (RRS) / Medical Emergency Teams (METs) are a preplanned
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