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SPOTLIGHT: Healthcare bankruptcies rare in Japan
While some say healthcare costs are responsible for the majority of American bankruptcies, apparently such bankruptcies are almost unheard of in Japan, according to one researcher who has studied its... Read more...
$10 million prize for solution to healthcare problems
X Prize Foundation, the group behind the contest that got the first manned private space flight off the ground, is now tackling an even bigger challenge--healthcare reform. The foundation has teamed... Read more...
Allina plans $100 million health innovation center
Allina Hospitals & Clinics has launched a $100 million Center for Health Innovation dedicated to public health and healthcare quality. The 11-hospital system plans to spend $10 million annually... Read more...
New Hampshire rolls out hand-washing program
New Hampshire's Commission of Healthcare Quality Assurance has rolled a campaign intended to foster safe hand-washing practices in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. The program, which is... Read more...
Report: Quality of care increases slowly
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality concludes that healthcare quality improvements are slowing. The agency, which has been compiling quality data for five years,... Read more...
Study: Errors caused 200K+ deaths from '04 to '06
The story doesn't get any prettier the more often its told. This set of data, from the fifth annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals study, makes a point often made elsewhere--that preventable... Read more...
Study: One of 15 hospitalized children harmed
A study using new methodology for detecting errors points up an alarming discrepancy between the level of potential harm children faced in hospitals, and what may actually be happening. The study,... Read more...
MN, WI tops in healthcare quality
According to Modern Healthcare, Minnesota and Wisconsin--along with North Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska--ranked tops in the nation in "overall healthcare measure" in an annual report conducted... Read more...
AHRQ: Patient safety improving, but slowly
According to a new study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), patient safety improved between 2000 and 2005. However, the improvement was modest, a mere 1 percent, according to... Read more...
HHS proposes confidential medical error reporting
HHS has proposed a plan to allow hospitals and other providers to confidentially report patient safety breaches to HHS intermediaries. The proposed rule, which was required by the Patient Safety and... Read more...
