Search Tag: transparency
2024 04 Mar
Wolters Kluwer Health recently conducted a survey title “Generative AI in Healthcare: Gaining Consumer Trust”. Results showed significant concerns among respondents regarding the transparency of information used in the healthcare field, amidst the increase of headlines about this new technology. Prevailing worry among respondents is the lack...Read more
2024 04 Mar
Wolters Kluwer Health recently conducted a survey title “Generative AI in Healthcare: Gaining Consumer Trust”. Results showed significant concerns among respondents regarding the transparency of information used in the healthcare field, amidst the increase of headlines about this new technology. Prevailing worry among respondents is the lack...Read more
2023 24 Jul
In a recent media interview as the new CDC director, Dr. Mandy Cohen highlighted her commitment to refocusing the agency on rebuilding trust through increased transparency, improved communication, and by presenting the best available evidence to the public. During her first meeting with CDC staff members the central theme was "trust." Cohen felt...Read more
2020 05 Jun
The current study of the Cyprus Integrity Forum (CIF) highlights the pitfalls that must be avoided to preserve the sustainability of our country, social equality and environmental integrity, and above all to protect the prestige of our country as a state of law and morality and not as a centre of opportunistic corruption as some have accused us...Read more
2019 11 Sep
The growing trend of consumerism in healthcare is drawing more attention to the provision of high-quality care at reasonable costs. It therefore behoves provider organisations to make significant strategic change in order to stay relevant and provide the kind of quality care patients, as consumers, expect. You may also like: The Hospital as...Read more
2019 23 May
A cross-party think tank Policy Connect and the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Data Analytics in the UK, have called for a ‘settlement’ on public data between the citizen and bodies which provide public services. The parliamentary group met at Westminster this week to present their findings in their report ‘ Trust, Transparency...Read more
2016 23 Jun
Laser imaging of sites in Cambodia has revealed details of ancient cities unknown till now to archaeologists . Will it take as long to reveal clinical trials data? OpenTrials is described as an “open free database and web service to identify, aggregate, store, match, index and share all available documents and data on all clinical trials.” It is...Read more
2015 21 Aug
New statistics have been released by the Federal Office of Public Health on intensive care in Swiss hospitals. The objective is to boost transparency and to allow patients and doctors to choose the most appropriate care. The public health office publishes data on the quality of acute care in Swiss hospitals every year. The data covers 165 facilities...Read more
2015 26 Jul
Mismanagement of the government-run healthcare system has been a significant contributor to Greece’s debt crisis, according to a health policy and management expert. A lack of accountability in the system helped create a culture of overtreatment and overspending, Dr. Martin "Marty" Makary, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, writes...Read more
2015 05 Jul
European Patients Forum (EPF) organised a major European conference on cross-border healthcare in Brussels, Belgium. Patient leaders from across the EU and National Contact Points (NCPs) met together to discuss on the implementation of the Directive. The patient discussions reveal that both patients and their representative organisations play a key...Read more
2015 19 May
At the recent Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting in Chicago, the shortage of physician-leaders was in the spotlight. Bhagwan Satiani, MD, MBA, professor of clinical surgery, medical director of vascular labs at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus and director of the FAME Faculty Leadership Institute made some interesting...Read more
2015 12 May
According to an article published by JAMA Internal Medicine, most medical malpractice settlements include nondisclosure clauses but there is little standardisation or consistency in their application. The review was conducted by William M. Sage, MD, JD, of the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-authors who examined restrictions...Read more
2015 21 Feb
Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, IL) has begun adding the results of patient surveys to the profiles of individual physicians on its website ( www.rush.edu ). Rush has added the patient evaluation scores to about 100 physician profiles since the beginning of 2015 and expects to reach approximately 180 in all. The profiles appear on the site’s...Read more
2014 22 Oct
According to a new study published in JAMA, searching a health service pricing website before using the service results in lower payments for clinical services such as laboratory tests and imaging. Due to changes in the healthcare insurance market, more and more insured patients now have to bear a greater proportion of their healthcare costs....Read more