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> A blood conservation program at the Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla. that involved a series of changes in how open-heart surgery patients are treated before and during surgery dramatically reduced transfusion rates by 40 percent over a five-year period, according to the Sun Sentinel. Article
> The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare will partner with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation to host a summit designed to help eliminate the many preventable deaths in U.S. hospitals by 2020. Announcement
Health Provider News
> Even though most preventive care, including screening mammograms, is available without coinsurance to patients, other "hidden" costs of preventive care may still keep young, low-income women from getting breast lumps examined in a timely fashion, a study published Nov. 11 in Cancer suggests. Article
Health IT News
> Physician training for use of surgical robots at hospitals could become more standardized, thanks in part to a rise in reported adverse events associated with such tools, Bloomberg reported. Article
Health Insurer News
> As the federal health insurance exchange continues to falter amid technical problems, companies are continuing to launch their own private exchanges that could eventually compete alongside the public marketplaces. Article
> And Finally...Whack-a-cab. Article