An after the fact hearing for Berwick in the works?
Maybe we’ll get our summer TV special on C-SPAN after all.
Will stethoscopes be banned?
Happy Hospitalist, no doubt aware that stethoscopes transmit germs just as much as our hands, observes: Maybe the Joint Commission should work on banning stethoscopes from hospitals, next. Or better yet, mandate hospitals supply cheap stethoscopes dedicated to each patient room. Don’t expect much push back from your colleagues, Happy. Those cheap, clinically useless stethoscopes [...]
Friday afternoon
At the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. Great museum! Very hands on, excellent presentation of general history of the vikings and the specifics of how five ships were found at the bottom of this fjord. Met some scary vikings. And I got to row and sail a replica ship.
Invisalign Insurance or Invisalign Dental Plan
Q.: I need a supplemental dental plan. I currently have United Concordia. That plan covers just about anything but it doesn’t cover invisalign braces for me. So I am looking for invisalign insurance. I have got a quote already. The invisalign braces will cost me $5,000 without coverage. I need no other services but would [...]
Another Blow to the Health IT Idealists: Sony CEO Howard Stringer, and HHS OIG, on Information Security
In a series of Healthcare Renewal posts such as those linked below, I pointed out that healthcare IT information security was largely a pipe dream, and that plans to create a national network of health information, while a seductive idea dating to the beginnings of computer networking, is not a good idea now. “Networked EMR’s [...]
