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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in mid-March proposed steep cuts in various areas of Medicare reimbursement that, if implemented, could have significant implications for the medical device industry.
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You get what you pay for- is a favorite mantra serving as a corollary to supply-side capitalistic perspectives. But a variety of healthcare metrics could be shown to indicate that the mantra more often than not fails to hold true in U.S. healthcare.
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Cordis (Miami Lakes, Florida), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, New Jersey) last month unveiled plans to develop what it called a "world-class global cardiac and vascular institute."
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Most cardiac arrest victims die before they reach the hospital, and traumatic injury is a top killer in North America. With the launch of a research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, Maryland) and other federal and Canadian agencies, scientists hope to learn the best ways to improve survival chances from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.
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Edward Brennan, PhD, previously the president and chief operating officer of CryoCor (San Diego), has been promoted to CEO and appointed to the board of directors. Brennan joined CryoCor in January 2005, and he will lead the maker of the CryoCor Cardiac Cryoablation System's transition to a commercial-stage enterprise from an early-stage company.
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While patient simulators can clearly be used to assess the performance of ED staff in pediatric trauma cases, they also can be used to improve their performance in these cases. Thats what the ED at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center has been doing since May 2002.
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The bad news: Nearly three-quarters of ED physicians may experience depression at some point in their careers, and nearly half consider harming themselves. The worse news: Nearly half of those with such problems do not seek treatment.
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Two significant process changes at Methodist Willow-brook Hospital in Houston, have led to dramatic improvements in efficiency, says its ED management team. Consider the following:
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Conventional wisdom among emergency medicine professionals is that the various sizes of the EDs in the United States, when placed in a bar chart, would look like a bell-shaped curve; that is, the greatest number of EDs would be found among the mid-sized EDs, or those with 25,000-30,000 visits per year.
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At Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth (TX), the ED managers werent taking any chance of being unprepared when the accreditation surveyors showed up for a regular unannounced survey.
