Pennsylvania Medical Society

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Name: Pennsylvania Medical Society

First reported Mar 29 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 1 reports

Knouse Foods names new vice president: Trade Talk

Trade Talk showcases the businesses in the midstate and the people who make them work. From companies who make iconic products to the small family businesses and everyone in between, we have a little bit of everything in the midstate. Midstate companies ... [Published PennLive.com - Mar 29 2013]

Entities: e-health, Supply Chain Management, Pennsylvania Medical Society, Information Technology

First reported Jan 27 2013 - Updated Jan 27 2013 - 1 reports

C. RICHARD SCHOTT: Help Pennsylvania doctors end pill scamming

0 commentsNearly 15,000 people die every year in the U.S. from overdoses involving prescription painkillers. In 2010, one in 20 Americans (age 12 or older) reported using prescription painkillers for nonmedical reasons during the previous 12 months. More ... [Published Indiana Gazette - Jan 27 2013]

Entities: Pennsylvania Medical Society, Controlled Substance, Database, Overdose, anodyne

First reported Jan 25 2013 - Updated Jan 25 2013 - 1 reports

Pennsylvania Medical Society

Snow kidding, minor storm is really coming

WEST CHESTER - Quick quiz for our readers in Chester County: How many car batteries have died in the last five days or so? How many times have you slipped on small spots of ice on your sidewalk? Are your snow shovels ready?The last question is most timely ... [Published Daily Local News - Jan 25 2013]

Entities: Influenza, Pennsylvania Medical Society, American College of Emergency Physicians, West Chester (Pennsylvania, United States)

First reported Jan 07 2013 - Updated Jan 07 2013 - 1 reports

'Pills for Ills, Not Thrills'

One of the nation's biggest drug-abuse problems is rooted in conventional medicine rather than underground trafficking. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription narcotics abuse is an epidemic.The problem in Pennsylvania ... [Published Daily and Sunday Review - Jan 07 2013]

Entities: Database, Oxycodone, Drugs, Overdose

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..."In 2012, fourteen Advisory-based CME activities were available from the society," Bulger said. "Physicians passed over twenty-four hundred posttests associated with the fourteen activities and obtained over twenty-one hundred credits. "The number of posttests passed by physicians and resulting credits in 2012 are the greatest, respectively, in a calendar year since the Authority's efforts with the society began in 2006," Bulger added. In 2012, the Authority published four quarterly issues and one supplement, containing 35 articles. Topics of articles include: The Role of the Electronic Health Record in Patient Safety Events, Patients Taking Their Own Medications While in the Hospital, The Breadth of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Nonventilated vs. Ventilated Patients in Pennsylvania, Survey of Ambulatory Surgical Facility Preoperative Screening Processes in Pennsylvania, Falls Risk Assessment: A Foundational Element of Falls Prevention Programs and Responses to the Authority's Potential Recommendations to Prevent Wrong-Site Surgery."

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Issues Annual Report for 2012 [Published TickerTech.com - Apr 30 2013]

..."Hospitals are very fearful of RAC audits," Schott said, adding that the system forces hospitals to be cautious. "If a patient comes in on observation status and their case turns out to be more complex ... they can very easily be changed from observation status to an admission. "There's very little downside to the hospital in doing that. If it's the reverse, it's much more problematic." The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services defends the RAC program as an effective tool to identify Medicare overpayments and underpayments to health care providers and suppliers."

Specific Wording on Medical Bills Hike Costs for Patients [Published NBC Philadelphia - Apr 21 2013]

...Ralph J Riviello, president of PaACEP. "But there will be exceptions, and those people should seek immediate assistance."

Snow kidding, minor storm is really coming [Published Daily Local News - Jan 25 2013]