Tag: health transparency
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Health Watch USA hosts chief medical director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Lexington and online July 31
Dr. Patrick Conway, chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will be presenting to Kentucky-based Health Watch USA on July 31 at 5 p.m., and...
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Kentucky and online audiences hear discussion of proposed system for patients to report medical errors; comments due July 8
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration is creating a new system for patients to report medical mistakes because existing systems fail to do so, and if all...
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Calls for hospitals to reveal more about errors, infections are getting louder; feds plan more data, but hospitals fight state rules
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News LEXINGTON, Ky. — The stories are hard to hear. A little girl is taken to the hospital after she turns on the water and...
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A culture of silence remains about medical errors, but things are slowly improving, physician-activist says
There has been a culture of silence when it comes to talking about medical errors, but things are slowly changing, writes Dr. Kevin Kavanagh, right, in an op-ed piece in...
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Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy Conference to be held Nov. 11 in Lexington
Focusing on issues like hospital- and health care-acquired infections, the impact of medical errors and infections on patients, and the importance of transparency, the Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy...