I thought I was done posting for today, until I came across this. The FDA is working on a proposed rule to regulate medical device data that is acquired and stored directly into the EMR’s database.
“As the ability for direct capture evolves, the current direction FDA is heading is the medical record becomes part of […]
I’ve been surprised that the vendor trade press hasn’t had more on the recent move by CMS to stop reimbursing hospitals for 13 specific hospital-acquired conditions, aka, adverse events. This will have a profound impact on hospital buying decisions in the coming years. Of course the changes will be slow - this is health care, […]
Associate Geoff Teed of P3 pointed me to this patient safety assessment survey the other day. Very interesting.
Two recent stories in Modern Healthcare highlight the continued pressure providers face on patient safety and outcomes. The Hospital Quality Alliance will be publishing hospital mortality rates later this month on this Health & Human Services web site. From the story:
In March 1986, the Health Care Financing Administration, as the CMS was
then known, first released […]
Israeli company Life Wave appears to be gaining momentum in the market with their medical device for treating bed sores (pictured right). According to Globes online, the company has signed two new European distributors. Bed sores are one of the 13 preventable hospital-acquired conditions that for which CMS will stop paying hospitals to treat in […]
The April issue of Wired magazine had a couple of interesting articles on business blogging, or what they call “radical transparency.” As their fluffy intro says, “business is always personal.” Perhaps the first (mostly) serious book written on the business benefits of blogs was The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual. While the […]
