STAT: Meet Boston Children’s #Hospital #specialeffects guy

Three-printers and more. Gregory Loan is a simulation engineer at Boston Children's Hospital Simulator Program. He makes artificial body parts and mannequins for clinicians to practice on. More great video from STAT here.  https://vimeo.com/246154160

MGH surgeon, who treated #bombing victims in Afghanistan and #Boston, brings #tourniquet campaign to area schools

MGH surgeon, who treated #bombing victims in Afghanistan and Boston, brings tourniquet campaign to area schools

If you can’t join them, beat them: BIDMC in takes over Milton hospital

When the Harvard hospitals decided to join forces as Partners, they cut BIDMC out of the deal. So, this story from the Globe  - on Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton --is worth noting: Consolidation in the health care industry has been viewed with suspicion, leaving critics worried that the state’s biggest health care networks want to leverage increased …

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Hospitals consolidation: Brill says yes, new Massachusetts AG says no

From Shirley Leung's Monday column in the Globe: No judge or jury delivered a verdict on the Partners HealthCare settlement Monday, but we didn’t need either after Attorney General Maura Healey’s three-page court filing. She thinks the deal stinks, and if given the chance, she would bring an antitrust suit to block Partners’ efforts to …

Readmission penalties in Massachusetts hit teaching hospitals

Medscape reports on a JAMA article looking at readmission rates: Ninety-five-bed Falmouth (Massachusetts) Hospital on Cape Cod doesn't have the national reputation of Massachusetts General Hospital, 77 miles to the north in Boston. But the small hospital bests the big teaching hospital in the big city on this point — it's not getting penalized by …

The “end of fee for service”: Health cost wars break out in in New England #hcr #mapoli #aca

More than a river divides Vermont and New Hampshire. In the state that lives by the motto, " Live Free or Die," regulators and politicians declined to set up a health insurance exchange mandated as part of the health reform law. From the June 22 Concord Monitor: John Lynch signed into law a bill that prohibits New Hampshire …

The Globe on alarm fatigue, HIT and a hit to the hospital association

From The Globe: Wide heart monitor use tied to missed alarms/ State reports detail 11 patient deaths linked to alarm fatigue in Massachusetts Steward Health Care chain quits Mass. hospital group: For-profit chain says it can better advocate for its unique interests Report suggests HIT, incubators as part of economic development plan.

Hospital philanthropy: Madoff and The $50,000 receptionist desk

Over at Nature Network Boston, we report on campus donations from two philanthropers who had to repay money they earned from Bernie Madoff investments.  MIT was a beneficiary of the Picower family, which this past week got the final order to return $7.2 billion (not a typo) they earned in Bernie Madoff's upscale Ponzi scheme. …

BUwonks: Venture capitalists + higher prices won’t stabilize hospitals

Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar of  BU School of Public Health study the hospital industry. In the letters page of the Globe, they point out that Massachusetts pays"  hospitals about $22 billion. That’s $3,400 per citizen, 55 percent above the national average. They don't think the pending Caritas sale will help fix that. Combining many small money-losing …

State keeps tabs on hospital costs, use

Catching up on hospital news:   1)     AG fires back at Partners on costs. From the Globe Last week, Thomas O'Brien, chief of Coakley's health care division, wrote Partners general counsel Brent Henry, calling portions of the (Partners cost report) erroneous and saying in other respects it essentially agreed with his office's findings. The attorney general's report …