Medical Errors

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Stop Pay-For-Performance! Start Pay-For-Outcome.

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare System, Incentives, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, Pay for Performance, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, British NHS, Health Information Technology, N.I.C.E., Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

The Obama Administration is considering implementing the pay-for-performance approach initiated by the British National Health Service (NHS). But that system has flaws.

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Do You Have a "Right" to an Oil Change?

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Personal Responsibility, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, Adverse Medical Outcomes, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

Can you have a "right to health care" without any responsibility: both by paying for it and by being an active partner in it?

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President Has Gone Over To The Dark Side

Deane Waldman | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Obama has succumbed. The lure of the Dark Side was too powerful. Though he acknowledges that "our healthcare system is broken," he points the finger of shame at people: the doctors.

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Healthcare Reform: Our Great Opportunity to Fix Primary Care Medicine

Dr. John Neustadt | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Healthcare Education, Primary Care, Universal Healthcare, Medical Errors, Obama Healthcare Reform, Medical Costs, Healthcare Reform, Primary Care Crisis, Medical Education, Living News

I believe that in order to fully fix our healthcare system, we must focus on reforming primary care medicine in this country.

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Address Medical Liability With Science, not Caps: "Standard of Care" is not the Same as Evidence-Based Medicine

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Medical Association, Medical Errors, Health Care, Litigation, Heathcare Reform, National Practitioners Data Bank, Harvard School of Public Health, Medical Malpractice, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Many doctors practice in fear of litigation. Some argue this leads to "defensive medicine": medical practices designed to avert the future possibility of malpractice suits, rather than to benefit the patient.

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Treating the Medical Hit-and-Run

Patrick Malone | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Errors, Law Suit, Defensive Medicine, Medical Malpractice, Hit and Run, Politics News

I wish President Obama could meet one or two of my clients who are victims of medical hit-and-runs.

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I Am Not A Perp!

Deane Waldman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living

Read More: No-Fault, Medical Errors, Government Regulations, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare, Living News

I, along with almost a million doctors, over 2 million nurses, and almost 3 million allied health personnel resent being treated like perps (perpetrators). We are trying to help.

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On Healthcare Reform Stimulating the Economy: The Massachusetts Example

Maggie Mahar | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nurses, Health Care Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Drugs, Medical Errors, Health Insurance, Unncessary, Legislation, SCHIP Program, Primary Care, Health, Structural Reform, Over-Priced, Devices, Universal Health Care, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Too many proposals for healthcare reform focus solely on universal access and run the risk of sending good money after bad. The question we need to ask is: "Access to what"?

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Avoiding healthcare, are we?

Deane Waldman | Posted 08.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Healthcare Coverage, Medical Errors, Healthcare System, Healthcare Costs, Home News

Why do we keep avoiding healthcare? Probably the same reasons we avoid talking about death: either we think we can do nothing about it or we are super...

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Safety First - NOT!

Deane Waldman | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthcare System, Medical Errors, Medical Quality, Learning, Safety, Healthcare, Living News

There is a recent push in U.S. hospitals to inculcate a "culture of safety." Can anyone be against safety? I can and you be will too, if you want healthcare to improve.

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