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Is U.S. ready for Haiti-style mass casualty event?
The GAO’s latest release, “State Efforts to Plan for Medical Surge Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scarce Medical…
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Report details errors in waiting-room death
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Tom Avril reports on how hospital errors led to the death of a 63-year-old north Philadelphia guidance…
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Gawande, Google and health systems analysis
Earlier this month, New Yorker writer and surgeon Atul Gawande brought his checklist gospel (video) to the President’s Council of…
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Health Policy and the Supreme Court
Sarasota Health News‘ David Gulliver and Health News Florida’s Mary Jo Melone considered exactly how last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling…
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Network to warn pharmacists of drug errors
The Wall Street Journal‘s Laura Landro spotlighted a new national network designed to send e-mail alerts to as many as…
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Grassley questions hospitals for HIT investigation
Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz continue to stay on top of the stimulus/health information technology/Sen. Charles Grassley investigation story for…
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Denmark sees results from electronic records
In The New York Times, Sindya Bhanoo examines Denmark, a country which has adopted health information technology to a high…
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How Health Policy lost popular support
Kaiser Health News staff writers, including Jordan Rau, Mary Agnes Carey, Julie Appleby and Phil Galewitz, teamed up to figure…
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‘Kidney pirates,’ organized crime and health care
In a recent episode of HDNet’s Dan Rather reports, the journalist criss-crossed the globe alongside an academic/activist and others trying…
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Hep C emerges from dormancy to hit baby boomers
Newsweek‘s Sarah Kliff looked into hepatitis C, a virus which can be dormant for decades then emerge to cause liver…