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Washington D.C. Council Creates Nonprofit Corporation To Seize Control of United Medical Center At Foreclosure Auction More hospital news, this time right under the nose of Washington and Congress, so if this doesn’t generate some attention here, I don’t know...
VA Awards 3 Year Contract to the City of Hope For End-of-Life Nursing Education And Hospice Care This is a 3 year contract and everyone knows the City of Hope is the foremost institution for cancer and cancer research. Recently in the n...
Hospital CIOs Are Unsure if They Can Demonstrate “Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records” – CMS is Outsourcing Compliance and Repository to Northrop Grumman at a Cost of $34 Million I recently commented on the same issue myself with clarity being at the top of the heap. It is a moving target though that never stops movi...
First Generic Version of Effexor Approved by the FDA A little history from the past, there were some fabricated studies written about Effexor and the link below will catch you up as the one doc...
Bayer Claim That Vitamins Prevent Prostate Cancer Is Now A Class Action Lawsuit – False Advertising The FDA does not have jurisdiction over the advertisements relative to vitamin supplements, thus this fell under the area of the FTC and it ...
VA Hospital in Missouri Warning Members of Potential Exposure to HIV And Hepatitis One more story about cleanliness or lack of in this case. This particular exposure was in the area of not keeping dental instruments clean ...
St. Louis Startup Cofactor Will Sequence Ozzy Osbourne For Free And 3 Companies Will Interpret This almost has the sounds of a new reality TV show or maybe I am out to lunch on this one. I say this because PBS has done a few document...
Medicare Changes Will Stand to Put More Hospitals Out of Business – Bad Projections and Horrible Implementations From Generally Non IT Participating Leaders First of all the data being used is from “old” reports and that has value but not for the future, a lot of which is unknown and changes almo...
35,000 Humana Patients Could Soon Be Dropped From Humana in San Antonio – New Contracts and Hospital Reimbursement Was Too Low For Part of the Insured What is also interesting here is that Humana used to own 3 of the 5 hospitals in the Methodist Healthcare System and sold them to HCA and n...
US Surgeon General Speaks About Microsoft Healthvault Collaboration with My Family Health Portrait The original press release goes back to February of 2010 and now it appears things are up and moving. I always seen to forget myself that t...
Performance Reviews at the Hospital Means Pay for Performance for the Facility – Are the Quotas Being Met This is probably not the first time you have heard this but these conversations are going on all the time at hospitals and other health care...
Consumer Watchdog Warns Sebelius on Health Insurers – Good Reason for This as Insurer Subsidiaries Are in The Game to Play Just As Private Equity Groups Diversify and Collaborate Holdings Perhaps I have had some readers over here at the Medical Quack as this is one of my areas of focus. Companies don’t just buy subsidiaries a...
The Intimia™ Breast And Chest Pillow Invented by an RN – Helps Keep Wrinkles From Developing on Your Chest This was just too good to pass up and not post:) We have all kinds of devices, creams, etc. for wrinkles and now a RN has invented the brea...
Tenet Signs National Agreement with Cigna – Hospitals To Receive Higher Compensation When Pay for Performance Quality Metrics Are Met Why are we seeing more diverse contracts with hospitals, well the link below might give a hint as to why and the agreement will allow Tenet ...
White House Pauses $3 Billion In IT Spending – Office of Management and Budget Conducting Review – One of the First Projects on the Agenda is the Veterans Administration This is probably not a bad thing at all as with doing this blog I see some very strange items getting funded and perhaps now with an additio...
North General Hospital in New York Closing – To Re-Open as a Government Subsidized Walk In Clinic & Nursing Home This is the second hospital closure in the New York City area; however at least the facility has plans to continue on as a walk in clinic an...
L.A. County-USC Medical Center Was Perhaps Built Too Small – Severely Overcrowded Back in October 2008 the new facility opened, state of the art and now we are less than 2 years later and the hospital is over crowded with ...
Nurses Striking for Safe Patient Care While Wall Street Worries Over the Hospital Bond Issues – Why We Can’t Successfully Reform Healthcare Do the folks on Wall Street give a darn over what goes on at the hospital and anything about safe patient care? It doesn’t appear that way...
Porn Stars on Medical Record Privacy – Legal Suit Filed Claiming Unauthorized Employees Viewed Charts The stars do not agree with the release forms and to work in the industry they must be tested for disease and in essence I guess there could...
IUDs Not Approved by the FDA implanted in over 400 patients by OB-GYN Associates in Rhode Island and Massachusetts This will be interesting to follow up and see what arises when they are done as the IUDs were purchased at half the cost of what ones here i...
