HealthLeadersMedia | Patients are not used to hearing the word no from their hospital or physician. But they will have to start getting used to it. When the discussion takes place about the need for expensive tests or procedures that perhaps don’t follow evidence-based guidelines,...
Diagnostic Imaging | With increasing numbers of images to read, and more information to integrate into reports, shouldn’t the radiology report structure change with the times? This is what researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center concluded in their study, Improving Communication of Diagnostic Radiology Findings...
Diagnostic Imaging | I recently needed a leaking radiator removed from my home. The individual doing the job for me came well-recommended, and in fact had done two other high-quality jobs for me during the past few years. The task wasn’t a simple, one-step process; water-flow...
HealthLeadersMedia | Widespread objections to proposed federal rules on accountable care organizations prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week to announce enticements designed to sway providers to apply for the new payment model. On Thursday CMS fleshed out one of the programs that it hopes...
HealthLeadersMedia | The intensive care unit is one of the most sensitive areas of the healthcare system: That’s where it responds to chronic and unremitting disease of the sickest of hospital patients, as well as those suffering from trauma or complications from surgery. Health systems...