When I started reading this, I admit I
burst out laughing. A broken medical system trying to correct what
is wrong with itself? Yes, this is needed, but without Federal
legislation, how will this ever get off the launching pad?
Granted, I have a shortage of knowledge
about the medical world, but the way hospital executives and hospital
boards fabricate and forget to make things known, how can we ever
expect any reliability in what they say? It is true that the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services cannot be reliable for ratings for
most medical situations, they have too large a stake in giving out
ratings where there is something to be gained and money is in the
mix.
The question is what would the SEC type
regulator for the medical be named. Even the SEC has had its
problems in its 80 some years of existence and money produces strange
results. However, it is time for change and this may be the vehicle
to make this happen. This is still in the formative stage and
therefore nothing is fixed or even close to being finalized.
In reading the blog by Peter Pronovost,
MD, PhD, Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute
for Patient Safety and Quality, I have been researching what some of
the possibilities might be. Dr. Pronovost did state the following in
his blog, “A SEC-like entity could have private sector
rule-setting, public sector auditing and transparency, and private
sector reanalysis, working from a common book of truth.”
There will be a conference September
23-25 in Baltimore, MD and the details are here and it lists the
planned agenda for the three days. If I had gotten my act together
and read and realized that June 21 is the last day of early bird
registration, I should have posted this earlier. Patients and
patient-advocacy groups are encouraged to attend.
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