Here's a business model that would certainly seem to reward laxity and discourage innovation geared toward a higher level of accuracy and efficiency: Reward mistakes.And reward them with more money than is the case for delivering a better product.That sounds illogical...
Month: April 2013
Hospital disclosures highlight electronic records’ growing pains
The push across the medical industry in recent years that has focused upon supplanting paper records with electronic health records (EHRs), with New Jersey providers being no exception, has often been touted as revolutionary.The transformation, advocates routinely...
AARP and patient-advocacy group team up to spotlight best hospitals
The Leapfrog Group, with its very special and narrow focus, is an entity likely never heard of by most people in New Jersey and throughout the rest of the country.That unfamiliarity does not extend to hospital administrators, virtually all of whom know exactly what...
Computerized drug ordering systems: Effective, yet with problems
It takes a considerable amount of time for some medical studies to be fully evaluated following completion of research and material findings.Such is the case with a study on medication error published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...
