Tag: Patient Safety
The IOM Asks “What’s Possible in Healthcare?”
Last year, the Institute of Medicine released its latest report titled, "Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in...
Hospital Workers, Flu Shots & Standardized Work
While working in different environments and different industries, I've seen many work requirements that were deemed "non-negotiable" by management - and rightly so. For...
Getting to the Root Cause on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy
Last week, my wife was watching ABC's show "Grey's Anatomy," as she always does. Again, as she often does, she'll pause it for me...
Make Patients Responsible for Reporting Medical Errors? Really?
Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, channeled the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment "Really!?!" in this recent...
Stuff I’m Reading: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in...
The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes a post like this. Here are links to...
Guest Post: Taking Tragic Healthcare Stories for Granted?
Mark's Note: Today's guest post is, again, from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Check...
Stuff I’m Reading: September 21, 2012
The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes this post. Here are links to some varied...
A Kidney Accidentally Trashed – More Questions Than Answers
Many of you have emailed me about this horribly sad story: "Toledo hospital nurse accidentally throws away healthy donor kidney during transplant surgery."
As a...
Dr. John Toussaint Says “Don’t Kill Me!”
To end the week, here's a piece by our friend John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, that was published...
Henry Ford Health System’s TV Ad on Patient Safety
Hat tip to my dad who saw this commercial on TV back home in Detroit. It's an ad from the Henry Ford Health System,...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...
Even with “ObamaCare” Upheld, Much Hard Work Remains to Protect Patients...
The Supreme Court has mainly upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and other controversial provisions. The court did...
