Insys $250M Opioid Penalty for Quality Fraud
Link to the DOJ announcement below: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Opioid Manufacturer Insys Therapeutics Agrees to Enter $225 Million Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations
Georgetown Study: Medical Malpractice Is Not Random
Physicians with a single paid claim are 4x as likely to have a future claim than physicians with zero paid claims. We find a similar pattern in both high-risk and lower-risk specialties. We also find no evidence that public disclosure of paid claims has any impact on these patterns — meaning there is no “blood […]
The Increasing Incidence and Cost of Medical Malpractice
The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 raised the alarm while calling for urgent action to reduce patient harm in healthcare. The United Nations (UN) specialized agency stated that medical malpractice results in 2.6 million deaths annually. “Most of these deaths are avoidable. The personal, social and economic impact of patient harm leads to […]
AI and Medicine
It offers insights and ideas to abstract questions and truly shows that AI has a place in the future. I asked ChatGPT what it thought the future and limitations of AI would be in medicine, and here is what it told me …” That’s the how one doctor begins an article on how artificial intelligence […]
Strategies for Managing Disruptive Behaviors in Health Care Settings
A link to a podcast on “managing” disruptive behavior in a clinic, hospital, or doctors office: We’ll be discussing the role of Behavioral Emergency Response Teams (BERTs), trained in non-violent intervention techniques, in managing disruptive behavior and improving safety for both patients and staff. We’ll also dive into the impact of trauma-informed care (TIC) on […]
Barriers To Quality Healthcare and How to Overcome Them
In my line of work, these kinds of cases often show up as patients who suffered adverse events because they “fell through the cracks” (an awful euphemism for getting substandard care). Our latest surveys of pharmacists, patients and providers to inform the upcoming 2023 Medication Access Report, support this. The surveys found that patients and […]
Man sues West Virginia hospital after they incorrectly told him they removed his appendix.
Here’s the link. Man sues West Virginia hospital after they incorrectly told him they removed his appendix
NEJM: For-Profit Medical Schools — Concerns about Quality and Oversight
The nonprofit-governance requirement for medical schools was a core component of U.S. medical care’s transformation. But recently, several for-profit schools have been provisionally or fully accredited. Here is the link to the New England Journal of Medicine article: For-Profit Medical Schools — Concerns about Quality and Oversight
We’re Having A Pediatric Care Crisis
Across the country, children have for weeks been slammed with a massive, early wave of viral infections—driven largely by RSV, but also flu, rhinovirus, enterovirus, and SARS-CoV-2. Many emergency departments and intensive-care units are now at or past capacity, and resorting to extreme measures. At Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, in Maryland, staff has pitched a tent outside the emergency department to […]