Malpractice Category
Medical Errors and Adverse Event Reporting in Healthcare Transparency.
Will healthcare organizations raise the bar on transparency and start reporting adverse events in a public forum as they do costs, and other quality of care indicators?
Transparency, a word with several connotations: free from pretense or deceit, readily understood, characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices. When healthcare organizations discuss the notion of transparency the later two descriptions exemplify the concept. Organizational transparency in healthcare has typically taken the form of selected quality of care indicators.
Medical Tourism: Who really pays? Who really saves?
Periodically the news enlightens us with not so glamorous stories of individuals seeking medical care outside the borders of the United States (U.S.). These reports are usually about everyday people seeking cosmetic surgery, dental care, or some other medical treatment that they are unable to access in the U.S., usually due to the associated costs or their insurance status.
