March 2011 - Health Beat - The Network of Care

Medicare & Medicaid Fraud: Health Care’s Most Wanted Fugitives

For first time ever, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) is publishing a list, complete with the mug shots below, of HealthCare’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives,” individuals who have... Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 1:12 PM by Health Beat

Reports From the Field: How Health Reform is Already Helping Families

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, MomsRising, a five-year-old advocacy group dedicated to building "a more family friendly America," has produced an interactive map that provides stories...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 2:16 PM by Health Beat

Life Is Sacred: Unless You’re An Illegal Immigrant

Recently, I wrote about Danielle Deaver, the Nebraska woman who was denied an abortion after her 22-week fetus was deemed unviable. Instead of being permitted to terminate her pregnancy, Deaver was forced by state law to endure “10 excruciating days”...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 8:14 AM by Health Beat

Woman on Staten Island Puts Together a Network of U.S. Doctors and Hospitals, Changing the Lives of Children Crippled by War

Fifty-seven year old Elissa Montati has little money and no training in humanitarian aid. All she has is “a computer and a phone” CBS correspondent Scott Pelley explained on 60 Minutes last night. Nevertheless, over the past 15 years, Montati,... Read...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 12:28 PM by Health Beat

The High Cost of Care in a Sellers Market

Below, a guest-post by David Spero, R.N. Spero is the author of Diabetes: Sugar-Coated Crisis -- Who Gets It, Who Profits and How to Stop It, a book that Thomas Bodenheimer MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of... Read More...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2011 8:13 AM by Health Beat

High CEO Salaries at Nonprofit Hospitals Under Scrutiny…Once Again

Shock and outrage ensue every time the press gets wind of the million-dollar-plus salaries and other perks reaped by some CEOs at nonprofit hospitals. This year is no different—except that the ongoing recession that is forcing states to make painful....

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 7:17 AM by Health Beat

Making Health IT Work in a Hospital: the CMIO Should Be a Doctor

A hospital’s Chief Medical Information Office (CMIO) should be a physician, says Pam Brier, president and CEO of Maimonides Medical Center “because nobody knows a doctor’s business like a doctor.” As a hospital’s information technology (IT) point person...

Published Mon, Mar 21 2011 12:59 PM by Health Beat

The Dark Side of Industry-Funded Drug Trials

There are many serious problems with the current U.S. mental health system, the most glaring being the over-use or misuse of psychiatric drugs, the warehousing of the mentally ill to prisons and emergency rooms, and the unholy connection between academic...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 12:27 PM by Health Beat

Can Academic Medical Centers Become Accountable Care Organizations?

Below, an excerpt from a superb post by Bob Wacther, Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, that was originally published on Wachter’s World. There, he questions whether academic medical centers...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2011 7:10 AM by Health Beat

Robotic Medicine: A Surgeon Confesses That He Was Seduced By a Robot

U.S. healthcare is awash in medical technology, and recently, in an editorial published on Bloomberg.com, one surgeon suggested that we may be drowning. For as Dr. Craig D. Turner, a urologist in Portland, Oregon points out “what is different with......

Published Wed, Mar 16 2011 1:41 PM by Health Beat

Nortin Hadler on How to Win the Healthcare Lottery Without Buying a Ticket

Below an excerpt from an essay by Dr. Nortin Hadler, professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is the author of "Worried...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 6:13 PM by Health Beat

Medical Education: Reforming How We Train Doctors

Below, another provocative story from Pulse--voices from the heart of medicine, an online magazine of personal experience in health care. The piece raised some questions in my mind about how we train medical students. You’ll find my comments at the.....

Published Sat, Mar 12 2011 12:43 PM by Health Beat

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