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News To Know: Down With The Gown
For anyone who has spent time in a hospital, the hospital gown is a familiar sight. In fact, the same-old gown design has been in use, with very little alteration, since the 20′s. The trouble is, it...
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The Takeaway: Hospitals Open Seniors-Only Emergency Rooms
Emergency Rooms of Their Own: A growing number of American hospitals have been debuting emergency rooms designed specifically for older adults, generally those 65 and up. Special accommodations include...
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Three Ideas That Thwart Solutions to the Medical Care Crisis
The medical delivery system is under pressure to provide quality health care despite these dire trends: · Reduced access because of the closing of community hospitals and low-cost clinics, ·...
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The Takeaway: Hospital Lets Artists Paint, Perform to Pay Medical Bills
A Bronx hospital is launching a program that lets artistic patients knock $40 off their medical bills for every hour they spend providing some other “creative activity or service” at the hospital. The...
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Will Surprise Hospital Costs Be Outlawed?
By Susan Jaffe This Kaiser Health News story produced in collaboration with USA Today After Lois Frarie, a 93-year-old retired teacher from Monterey, Calif., spent four days at a local hospital while...
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89 Charged in Medicare Fraud Busts in 8 Cities
By Kelli Kennedy and Pete Yost, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively...
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In a Disaster, Could an Electronic Health Record Save Your Life?
By Jenny Gold, Correspondent, Kaiser Health News Everyone expects a hospital to be ready to jump into action when disaster strikes. But what about when the disaster devastates the hospital itself?...
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New Hospital Rules Could Save You From Deadly Infections
By Lindsey Tanner, Medical Writer, The Associated Press Infections in U.S. hospitals kill tens of thousands of people each year, and many institutions fight back by screening new patients to see if...
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40,000 Health Apps: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Christine Porter is hooked on the My Fitness Pal app. In October, after deciding to lose 50 pounds, Porter started typing in everything she eats, drinks and any exercise she gets. “This is like my...
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Is Your Doctor a 10? Medicare Site Takes Next Step Toward Ranking Providers
By Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News Medicare Thursday added new features to its Physician Compare website as it prepares to start including quality data on thousands of doctors. The federal health care...
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Sex, Alzheimer’s and Boomers: Trouble for Nursing Homes
Romance — for many, it’s one of life’s great pleasures. But for those living in a nursing home sex can get a bit more complicated. Having Alzheimer’s disease or some other form of dementia calls into...
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More Doctors Accepting New Medicare Patients
It’s getting easier — not more difficult — to find doctors who take Medicare, according to a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services. Doctors have long complained about Medicare’s...
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Older Patients Steered Into High-Interest Credit Plans
Consider this: An older patient visits the dentist. The treatment she needs is expensive and not covered by Medicare. So the dentist offers her financing, on the spot, through a credit card plan. She...
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The Maverick Doctor Who Helped to Invent Family Medicine
In the late 1950s, a young physician named Gene Farley was working as a small-town doctor in rural New York state when he came to the realization that what he had learned in medical school was all...
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Is Your Hospital in Medicare’s Penalty Box?
Is your hospital being penalized for providing care that falls short of what Medicare thinks it should be? Measures range from nighttime noise to following basic clinical standards of care. >>...
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Johnson & Johnson to Take $4 Billion Hit
Recently I wrote about how Johnson & Johnson inappropriately marketed Risperdal to treat agitation, confusion and other symptoms in older patients with dementia. As if that’s not enough, the...
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Will Surprise Hospital Costs Be Outlawed?
By Susan Jaffe This Kaiser Health News story produced in collaboration with USA Today After Lois Frarie, a 93-year-old retired teacher from Monterey, Calif., spent four days at a local hospital while...
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Medicare Lists Best, Worst Hospitals for Hip and Knee Replacements
By Jordan Rau, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News Medicare has begun tracking the outcomes of hip and knee replacement surgeries, identifying 95 hospitals where elderly patients were more likely...
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These Web-Based Medical Apps Make House Calls
Think you might have bronchitis, a sinus infection, or other non-life threatening illness and can’t wait for an appointment with your regular doctor? Not sure if you should go to the ER? Have travel...
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Now You Have Direct Access to Your Lab Reports
By Ankita Rao, Kaiser Health News Calling your doctor to get lab results might be a thing of the past: a new federal rule will allow patients to have direct access to their completed laboratory...
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