ABCNews Begins 'Prescription for Change' Series, Including Reports on Health IT
ABCNews' "
World News Tonight " on Sunday in the first segment of its weeklong "Prescription for Change" series examined some shortcomings in the U.S. health care system.
The segment includes comments from:
* Heather Jeffries, mother of an infant who died after receiving an incorrect dosage of the blood thinner heparin;
* Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D);
* Ruth Schulze, a New Jersey physician who has stopped delivering infants because of the high cost of medical malpractice insurance; and
* Medicare beneficiaries (Bourin/Harris, "World News Tonight," ABCNews, 10/15).
The complete transcript of Sunday's segment is available online. Video of the segment is available online.
Expanded ABCNews coverage of the series includes video on retail health clinics, challenges facing emergency departments nationwide, health care rationing, quality scorecards for health care and electronic health records.
Video of the health records segment is available online.
In addition, a
health business blog on health IT by David Williams, principal and co-founder of consulting firm MedPharma Partners, is available online.
