Obama Pushes Public Plan with AMA
from HealthLeadersMedia
 President Obama told the nation's largest physicians group on Monday that the fear of litigation is driving expensive and inefficient "defensive medicine." But he says patient safety initiatives and evidence-based medicine are a better cure than caps on malpractice. More
Obama’s Reform Plan Cuts Too Deep, Says AHA
from HealthLeadersMedia
The American Medical Association and America's Health Insurance Plans have already spoken out about portions of President Barack Obama's health care reform plan, and a third major stakeholder came forward to criticize a part of the plan this week.
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Survey: 95 Percent Consider Current Payment System the Largest Barrier to Health Care Reform
from Marketwire
While there are differing opinions about how to achieve national health care reform and reduce healthcare costs, according to a Pharos Innovations survey of select industry experts, there is almost unanimous consensus that our current payment system is the biggest barrier to health care reform. Ninety-five percent of respondents ranked the statement, "Our current system incents providers for quantity not quality of care," as the primary reason that the American healthcare system is not delivering maximum outcomes and cost savings.
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Scoring System Can Predict Hospital Admissions
from Modern Medicine
The Philadelphia EMS Admission Rule (PEAR) weighted scoring system can reasonably predict whether a patient being transported to the hospital will be admitted, according to a study published in the June issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.
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Hospitals, Doctors Preparing for Expanded Medicare Audits
from the San Francisco Business Times
Excruciating, expensive and labor-intensive are three ways hospital administrators in Middle Tennessee have described a newly expanded federal program that puts Medicare auditing in the hands of private contractors. Under the Recovery Audit Contractor program, contractors can examine Medicare billing records dating back three years to find instances of overpayment and underpayment.
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Advances In Medical Technology: What Does the Future Hold?
from Science Daily
Although sophisticated medical technology is already available in health systems in developed countries, further advances are constantly being made. As a result of the addition of medical nanotechnology to existing knowledge of molecular and cellular biology, it seems likely that new, more personalized, more accurate and more rapid diagnostic techniques will be devised in the future, as well as new treatments that are also more personalized and promote regeneration of the organism.
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Health Plan System Tracks Records, Insurance Claims of ER Patients
from the Detroit Free-Press
The national drive to reduce health costs has come to the emergency department. Health Plan of Michigan, Michigan's second-largest Medicaid provider, with 190,000 members, is to announce today that it has installed a new computer system at four hospitals its members use heavily that lets emergency department staff quickly gain access to a person's medical record and insurance claims data.
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California Hospital Conducts Nation's First Drive-through Pandemic Exercise
from Media Newswire
A couple of months ago, during the swine flu scare, Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Stanford, Calif., had a preview of what a real pandemic might look like: Hundreds of people, fearing they might be sick with the H1N1 virus, showed up at the emergency department looking for help. Hospital officials scrambled fast, converting some space overnight into an infection-controlled triage area.
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