Quality and Safety
If all hospitals performed similarly to those on the top 250 list, on average, 160,256 lives could be saved, Healthgrades says.
The program is created through a Medicare waiver, which permits hospitals to provide acute care at home to Medicare patients.
This week's top stories include a report that the VA did not ensure the quality of data migrated to its new Cerner EHR system, and a federal judge ruling that Martin Shkreli be barred from the pharma industry and ordering him to pay $64.6M.
The vaccine is being marketed as Spikevax for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older.
Errol Weiss, chief security officer at Health-ISAC, talks about the picture for cyber threats to the healthcare industry in 2022, including spearfishing and ransomware.
The percentage of total physician compensation based on quality and cost was modest - 9% for primary care providers and 5% for specialists.
In November, AppliedVR got FDA De Novo clearance for the EaseVRx system to help treat chronic lower back pain. CEO Matthew Stoudt goes into how the technology works and the company's plans going forward.
The task force’s primary goal is to protect and bolster sexual and reproductive health, including the right to safe and legal abortion care.
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">This week's top stories include an alert from federal agencies about </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Russian state-sponsored cyber operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, including healthcare organizations, and Massachusetts emergency orders released in response to critical staffing shortages in healthcare. </span></span></p>
The lack of adequate safeguards, highlighted by employee complaints, were found primarily in the Children's Hospital at Montefiore.