Hefty Health Spending in Stimulus Bill

Good for patients and healthcare professionals.  Looking forward more focus on the science of healthcare delivery.
Hefty Health Spending in Stimulus Bill

Consensus Conference: THE SCIENCE OF SIMULATION IN HEALTHCARE

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine just host a Consensus Conference regarding the National Agenda for Simulation Research in Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuing Medical Education. Those meeting topic tracks include: Individual/ Cognitive Expertise: global Provider Competency; Group Expertise: Effective Teamwork and Communication; Technical Expertise: Procedural and Surgical Skills and System Expertise:Effective Simulation at the Organizational [...]

Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership

National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine published this book emphasized the need for two disciplines working together to address the health care and patient safety issues.

Safety Dashboard for PCI

Just like consumer report for healthcare, a paper published from BMJ using plot to help public aware of hospital and surgeron’s performance based on the historical adverse events. This kind of tool along with other info on the web will educate patients and encourage them more involvements of the process of care. The [...]

New Healthcare Notification Network

“Moving patient safety online and out of the U.S. Mail” says Nancy Dickey, M.D., chair of the iHealth Alliance and past president of the American Medical Association. Check the new Health Care Notification Network
Should we also use this for all the safety related statistics, like Sentinel Event Statistics? Or connect the data with ASA [...]

Clinical Evidence for treatment decision

BMJ Clinical Evidence is one of the world’s most authoritative medical resources for informing treatment decisions and improving patient care. From the site, patient leaflets can also give your patients the same high-quality information in an easy-to-use format written in clear, plain English for better patient understanding.

The Cost of Long LIfe

clipped from ucatlas.ucsc.edu

 

Checklist in Healthcare

Does checklist help health care providers or not during their practices? Please see three parts blogs from Charles D. Baker (President and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.).
Also read (January 15, 2008) – OHRP Statement Regarding The New York Times Op-Ed Entitled “A Lifesaving Checklist”
The checklist also make sense to business.