November 2018

Healthgrades: Top 10 cities leading the way in healthcare

By Alyssa Rege for Becker’s Hospital Review Healthgrades released its 2019 National Health Index on Oct. 23. The study examines 100 cities across the U.S. to determine the cities leading the way in healthcare. Researchers evaluated more than a dozen variables for the index and grouped them into four healthcare factors: whether residents of each city were…

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A futurist predicts what healthcare will look like in the late 2020s

By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News BOSTON — Picking a point out on the horizon, the late 2020s, Michael Rogers gave a glimpse of the changes coming to healthcare by that time. “The American process is a pretty messy one sometimes,” Michael Rogers said. “That is where the healthcare revolution is today, but we’re…

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Hospitals are learning from industry how to cut medical errors

By the Economist AFTER a brain aneurysm in 2004, Mary McClinton was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle. Preparing for an x-ray, the 69-year-old was injected not, as she should have been, with a dye that highlights blood vessels, but with chlorhexidine, an antiseptic. Both are colourless liquids. The dye is harmless; the…

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