Hospitals

Hospitals are turning to technology to address one of the most intractable risks their patients face: medical errors.More than two decades after the launch of a national patient-safety movement to tackle the alarming toll of medical mistakes, preventing those errors has proved much harder than expected. Despite research that shows some improvement over time, hospitalized patients are still at substantial risk of medication mishaps, hospital infections, breakdowns in nursing care, and complications from surgery and other…

Albuterol, a medication used to treat people with breathing problems, is in short supply, including a version from Nephron Pharmaceuticals. Photo: Andrew Selsky/Associated Press…

SAURAV ANAND, NEW DELHI : National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) under ministry of Ayush on Monday launched…

The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity shared on social media that Ariana Grande has donated Christmas gifts for patients at its hospitals.  On Monday, the hospital charity tweeted, thanking the singer. They also said the presents were distributed to babies, children and teenagers at four area hospitals — Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Trafford General, Wythenshawe Hospital and North Manchester General Hospital.  The multi-Grammy-winning artist has maintained a close relationship…

Singer Ariana Grande spread some holiday cheer across the pond to Manchester, England, more than five years after a suicide bombing at her 2017 concert in the city left at least 22 people plus the bomber dead and injured dozens of attendees. On Monday, the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity shared on Instagram that the “Just Like Magic” singer had donated Christmas gifts for “young patients across our hospitals.”“The Christmas presents were distributed to babies, children and teenagers at Royal Manchester…

Many of the nation’s largest nonprofit hospital systems, which give aid to poorer communities to earn tax breaks, have been leaving those areas and moving into wealthier ones as they have added and shed hospitals in the last two decades. As nonprofits, these regional and national giants reap $8.8 billion from tax breaks annually, by one Johns Hopkins University researcher’s estimate. Among their obligations, they are expected to provide free medical care to those least able to afford it. Many top nonprofits,…

A decades-old federal program that offered big drug discounts to a small number of hospitals to help low-income patients now benefits some of the most successful nonprofit health systems in the U.S.Under the program, hospitals buy drugs at reduced prices and sell them to patients and their insurers for much more, often at facilities in affluent communities. One participant is the Cleveland Clinic’s flagship hospital, which reported $1.35 billion in net income last year. The hospital doesn’t admit enough…

When Covid-19 struck, the U.S. government gave hospitals tens of billions of dollars to help them cope with the strains of the pandemic.Many of the hospitals didn’t need it.The aid enriched some well-off systems, while failing to meet the needs of many that were struggling, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal financial-disclosure reports. The mismatch stemmed in part from the way the federal government determined how much a hospital should get. A main factor used to allocate relief was a…

NEW DELHI : The Karnataka government’s department of health and family welfare, in association with Bengaluru-based non-profit eGovernments Foundation…

Hospitals at a high risk of cyberattacks are endangering digital health by compromising safety. Are Hospitals at a High Risk of cyberattacks? Yes, they are! Since they store sensitive data and usually have weak cyber defences. Thus, putting Digital Health at stake. Even the pandemic has raised the increase in the rate of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as they are the most attractive targets for hackers.  When the pandemic hit, a flood of Digital Health technologies flowed into every hospital environment, enabling…