Bias or miscommunication? Gay spouse denied visitation rights
Filed under: Ethics, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Patient/Client Communication, Special Report
A Maryland hospital is under fire after a patient and her family alleged that the hospital wouldn’t allow her same-sex partner to visit her. Read more
Report: 86% of patient injuries go unreported
Filed under: Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Medicare & Medicaid News, Special Report
Hospitals’ incident reporting systems are only registering about 14% of patient injuries, according to a new study. Read more
Social media in health care: Another risk to weigh
Filed under: Communication, Ethics, Healthcare Technology News, Special Report
Social media has real business benefits within health care — and serious negatives that can be hard to protect against — whether or not you even use the sites.
Don’t miss these 10 most popular stories of 2011
Filed under: Ethics, Health care/Treatment trends, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Patient/Client Communication, Special Report
From hard-to-believe HIPAA violations to dogs performing medical tests, here are the top 10 most popular stories on HealthExecNews from 2011: Read more
Doc wins $7.6M in discrimination case
Filed under: Ethics, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Special Report
A pathologist was awarded $7.6 million from a federal jury in her suit alleging racial and gender discrimination by her employer.
Why do bad doctors go unpunished?
Filed under: Ethics, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Practice Management, Special Report
What kind of discipline do doctors face when they commit serious violations of patient safety? In many cases, nothing at all. Read more
Gross! Docs’ use of latex gloves is spreading germs
Filed under: Health care/Treatment trends, Hospital Management, Practice Management, Special Report
Attention all germophobes: Latex gloves may actually worsen the hand hygiene of health care workers who wear them. Read more
Paging Dr. Joker: No fat jokes about patients
Filed under: Communication, Ethics, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Lighter Side, Patient/Client Communication, Special Report
It may have seemed like a good idea to mock obese patients in print, but one surgeon-turned-comedian discovered the joke was on him. Read more
Disabled vet blows lid off multi-million dollar Medicaid fraud
Filed under: Ethics, Fraud & Waste, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Patient/Client Communication, Special Report
For his efforts uncovering a Medicaid fraud that the government couldn’t, the veteran pocketed a $15 million whistle blower payout. Read more
Hospital takes aim at alarm fatigue after two patient deaths
Filed under: Communication, Ethics, Healthcare Human Resources and Staffing News, Healthcare Legal & Compliance, Hospital Management, Special Report
After two cases of patients dying in part due to nurses ignoring their alarms, a Boston-area hospital is taking action. Read more