NCQA

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By Brett Kay, Director, Healthcare Quality Strategy, Strategic Customer Group, J&J Innovative Medicine Although there are many ways to measure the quality of care patients receive, not many focus on what patients want and need from the healthcare system, beyond a clinical outcome.

Accountability 52

Accountability Medicaid Medicare Quality of Care 52

Home Health Care

JUNE 25, 2024

A study of SOAR’s results within a pilot program in Pennsylvania was recently published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality. “On It also takes into account patient preferences and patient needs before care is transitioned. As the U.S. population begins to skew older, care coordination woes will exacerbate.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

JULY 25, 2018

Former Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, president and CEO of the Better Medicare Alliance (of which the Healthcare Leadership Council is a member) said “this study adds to the growing body of evidence showing the ability of Medicare Advantage to align incentives to better manage the care for a high-need population with multiple chronic conditions.”

Medicare 52

Medicare Healthcare Quality Accountability Medicaid 52

HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock and Memorial Hermann Health System , along with existing investors Insight Partners , Spark Capital , KKR , Aspenwood Ventures , Rivas Capital , and Sigmas Group. Unified Solution for Value-Based Care.

Life Sciences 52

Life Sciences Healthcare Quality Accountability Healthcare 52

Beterra

JULY 10, 2024

Patient safety is a critical component of healthcare quality. Despite significant advancements, preventable harm remains a significant concern in healthcare settings. This new quality measure will assess how hospitals implement safety improvement systems and evaluate hospital leadership’s commitment to patient safety.

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Patient Safety Medicaid Medicare Prevention 40

Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2023

It is increasingly understood that threats to healthcare cybersecurity present a shared challenge and therefore a shared responsibility, including among those whose principal responsibility is patient care and healthcare quality. government working to reduce cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities in the health system.

Safe Practices 40

Safe Practices Accountability Patient Safety Clinical Practice 40

Health Dialog

APRIL 26, 2017

Today, the healthcare market is making a dramatic shift away from fee-for-service to reimbursement schemes that value clinical outcomes. Through legislative action and mandated programs and initiatives, the federal government has positioned SDM as a key element of its strategy to reduce healthcare costs and improve population health.

Accountable Care 40

Accountable Care Quality of Care Population Health Healthcare Quality 40

Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

JANUARY 28, 2022

Exceptional healthcare quality, top patient experience scores, sound financial performance and long-term success are all associated with organizations that exude a positive culture. Wayne UNC Health Care endeavors to bridge the gaps between the urban, tertiary academic medical center and rural, community healthcare.

Accountability 40

Accountability Patient Experience Integration Healthcare Quality 40

Etactics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today, 61% of healthcare data breaches are due to negligent employees. Healthcare administration is hard enough as it is. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the federal law that helps protect your health information. Healthcare Before HIPAA Why Do We Need HIPAA? Conclusion What is HIPAA?

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Regulations Doctors Nursing Health Data 52

Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An embarrassment for US healthcare is that we have the highest rate of maternal mortality and morbidity among high-income nations, especially among American Indian, Alaska Native, and Black mothers, those of lower socioeconomic status, and people younger than 18 years or older than 35 years.1

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare Quality 52

Health Dialog

JANUARY 14, 2020

URAC is a nonprofit organization that promotes healthcare quality through leadership, accreditation, measurement, and innovation. They offer accreditations in different areas of the healthcare industry, including for health call centers. What is URAC? Achieving a URAC accreditation. Ensuring client satisfaction.

Nursing 40

Nursing Healthcare Quality Accountability Prevention 40

Icanotes

JANUARY 5, 2024

Why AI Will Never Replace Therapists By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | January 5, 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making remarkable strides in a number of fields, including healthcare to hospitality services. Do therapist AI tools consistently adhere to HIPAA and other healthcare quality and privacy standards?

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Nursing Private Practices Healthcare Quality Accountability 52

Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 28, 2024

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In a world of multiple wars, starvation, poverty, and limited healthcare access, it is always uplifting to see a breakthrough in medical research. The loss of solar power may cause power outages in its path. Stay safe and stay well. Michael A.E.

Patient Safety 52

Patient Safety Prevention Doctors Quality Assurance 52

HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2023

Patient portals such as MyHealth or MyChart are good tools to communicate with healthcare providers, schedule appointments, or view details about lab results and medications. If they have, they may want to deactivate their proxy access or the portal account to ensure their information remains confidential.

Accountability 40

Accountability Health Data Patient Safety Healthcare Quality 40

Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare Symposium Joe Kiani also recently gave a keynote at Beta Healthcare Group’s 2023 Annual Member Symposium focused on “Strategies for Improving Patient & Employee Safety,” held in Dana Point, California. Through this year’s slogan “Elevate the voice of patients!”

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Patient Safety Prevention Hospitals Healthcare 52

Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The unavailability of physical data from Medicare and Medicaid through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services jeopardizes the accountability of the entire healthcare system in the US through research that needs to be rigorous, reproducible, and conducted with academic freedom.

Medicare 91

Medicare Medicaid Accountability Quality of Care 91

Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality. HHS would apply time and distance standards at the county level and vary by county designation—similar to Medicare Advantage, the designation method would take into account population size and density.

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Primary Care Quality Improvement Healthcare Quality Accountability 52