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The call to action invoked one of the health-care buzz-phrases of the moment: computer physician order entry, or sometimes automated physician order entry. It means doctors give their orders electronically, instead of verbally or by scrawling ...
Letting outside auditors scour Medicare bills sure can turn up a lot of overbilling. A pilot program that netted the government nearly $700 million from three states is now being expanded to recover more Medicare money gone astray.
In all, Medicare ...
Coming soon to a hospital near you: Rules for good behavior — for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others.
Even well-run hospitals are fraught with tensions beyond the life-and-death concerns of treating the sick and wounded. Doctors yell at underlings. ...
Between overdoses and adulteration, the bad news about heparin keeps coming.
This time, it’s more infant overdoses: 17 babies at a Texas hospital got too much of the blood thinner; one has died, though hospital officials told CNN that it remains ...
When you’re navigating around something as delicate as the brain — not to mention cutting things out of it — depth perception helps a lot.
That’s part of the reason so much brain-surgery is still done the old-fashioned way: by cutting open the skull. ...
It seems like everyone has a hospital-ranking system these days. The federal government has Hospital Compare; Leapfrog and Health Grades market their own rankings. Consumer Reports just came online with a site measuring overtreatment and aggressive ...
Research suggests that making sure there are enough nurses in a hospital improves care. More than two dozen states, concerned about declining staffing levels, have either put rules in place on staffing policies or are considering them.
But legislators ...
For decades, hospital nurseries have taken great care to keep babies warm. You can hardly move in the average maternity ward without tripping over incubators, warming bassinets and receiving blankets. Now, though, some hospitals are turning the ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
Now that the FDA has gotten around to asking for $275 million more from Congress for inspections, the agency got another tongue-lashing from frequent critic Sen. Arlen Specter, who chastised HHS ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health.
One more herbal remedy seems to work no better than a placebo: St. John’s wort for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.
Fifty-four kids age 6 to 17 received either 300 mg of ...
