The “Just Culture” model to encourage healthcare professionals to report mistakes to focus on improving processes, not punishment, hasn’t worked, according to a study authored by Marc Edwards, MD, MBA, of the QA to QI Patient Safety Organization.

As a candidate, President Donald Trump had criticized pharma companies for “getting away with murder.” In remarks on Friday, May 11, he did bash the industry’s lobbying power while also lumping in insurance companies, distributors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) as part of the “broken system” that has sent drug prices soaring.

Year-over-year price growth was 2.2 percent in April 2018, which Altarum said was fractionally above the March rate, setting a six-year high for price growth in the sector. Hospital price growth fell slightly to 3.7 percent.

Made up of more than a dozen Amazon employees and led by manager Rachel Jiang—a veteran of Facebook and Microsoft who has been with Amazon since 2013—the “health & wellness team” within Alexa's division has been working on how the voice assistant can adapt to the requirements of HIPAA.

A data report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare showed the U.S. has higher prices for many healthcare services compared to other high-income countries, including on MRIs and joint replacements, and how some prices have risen faster than inflation.

Four years into its integration into the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) health system, Children’s Hospital Oakland physicians are complaining they’re being treated as less important than those at its sister institution, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, driving away researchers and other physicians.