Last month, J&J recalled over 40 variety of children medicines after FDA inspectors discovered a slew of problems at a Pennsylvania facility.  This is third recall by the company in less than one year. Company brasses are headed to DC for public grilling.  Since April 30, FDA has received hundreds of reports of complications associated [...]

read more from this topic.....

In an article published today on WSJ, a team from Massachusetts General Hospital and its Physicians is cited for its examination of the time and cost associated with the third party billing system used in US. Analysis was funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the CommonWealth Fund. Authors found that if the processes related [...]

read more from this topic.....

Few weeks, I was talking to a friend, who is super learned and caring. He told me that – now there is no credibility to Six Sigma.  See what it has done to Toyota?  You cannot apply Six Sigma in healthcare as  Six Sigma requires data. I hope I am quoting him correctly. Then it [...]

read more from this topic.....

Recently Obama administration nominated Dr. Don Berwick to head CMS, the center for medicare and medicaid services.  Don is world’s most prominent advocate for healthcare quality and safety. He was a pediatrician at Harvard.  He has been so passionate about improving healthcare that he left his job to pursue this interest.  In 1991 he founded [...]

read more from this topic.....

ABC news reported on January 25 that there has been several cases where patients have been exposed to higher than required level of radiation and in some cases causing death. THT did an article here few months back pointing out the issues and also raising questions if GE should have done something about it.  That [...]

read more from this topic.....