Vanderbilt University Medical Center Improves Health Outcomes and Financial Performance Through Continuous Monitoring of Low-acuity Patients
by Michael Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a highly respected comprehensive healthcare facility in the Mid-South region of the United States. Leaders like VUMC lead the way for safer patient care and improved health outcomes. So, when Brian Rothman, MD (Associate Professor, Division of Multispecialty … Continue reading
Two Practices to Adopt After Pediatric Opioid Trial Halted
With more than 500,000 pediatric tonsillectomies performed each year in the United States, removal of tonsils is one of the most common surgeries performed on children. According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, tonsillectomy is performed 20 percent for infection and 80 percent for obstructive sleep apnea. Children undergoing tonsillectomy with … Continue reading
Three Steps to Limiting Liability to Facility-Acquired Pressure Ulcer
The Risk Management Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal for The Association for Healthcare Risk Management recently published in its Risk Management Quarterly Journal-Volume I 2015 Edition the article by Scott Buchholz, Esq. (Dummit, Buchholz & Trapp) and Michael Wong, JD, (executive director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety) three practical tips for healthcare facilities to improve patient … Continue reading
First Meeting of National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety described the inaugural meeting of the National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids as a major step forward in the path to eliminate respiratory comprise, the second-most frequently occurring preventable patient safety issue in the United States. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Medical … Continue reading
Stories Shared at First Meeting of National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids
The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety today released the patient stories it shared at the inaugural meeting of the National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids. “We hope that the adverse events and deaths of patients who have suffered opioid-induced respiratory compromise may serve as inspiration to encourage the adoption of … Continue reading
What Puts More Than Half a Million Lives at Risk Each Year and Costs the US Healthcare System $7.8 Billion Annually?
Join the newest Physician-Patient Alliance Initiative to Reduce the Risk of Respiratory Compromise and Save Lives. By simply signifying your support for reducing the risk of Respiratory Compromise and for saving the lives of patients you can help ensure changes are made If steps had been taken sooner, the lives of countless numbers of patients … Continue reading
Survey, Experience Confirms Continuous Electronic Monitoring With Capnography Boosts Patient Safety and Lowers Healthcare Costs
By Harold Oglesby, RRT, Manager, Pulmonary Medicine, St. Joseph’s Hospital/Candler Health System, and Michael Wong, JD, Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (This article first appeared in Becker’s Clinical Quality & Infection Control.) Though continuous electronic monitoring of all patients receiving patient-controlled analgesia is not a universal practice among the nation’s hospitals today, a … Continue reading
What Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know
In a recent article, “Coding & Billing: 10 Things Insurers Don’t Want You to Know”, Karlene Dittrich, CBCS, lists 10 things health insurers don’t want you to know. These 10 things include: Insurance companies may not be focused on quality care or what’s best for their customers. Insurance companies are required by law to pay … Continue reading
Is Medicine a Stone-Age Industry?
This is the question that I was asking myself today when I read the recent USA today article, “Hospitals lose $8.3 billion using old technology”: U.S. physicians and hospitals are in the digital dark ages when it comes to using the latest mobile devices and Internet services to deliver patient care. As a result, U.S. … Continue reading
Criticism of Obamacare
I have heard a lot of criticism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA); otherwise known as “Obamacare”. I was about to write an unbiased discussion of the pros and cons, and then I read Joseph Paduda’s recent post “Obamacare – criticisms considered” which kind of says it all — let’s just move on … Continue reading
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