Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

For the approximately 200 patients who have engaged with the platform to date, the data shows 87% are compliant with PROs – reporting on pain, activity, filling out HOOS or KOOS forms, etc. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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Readiness Rounds

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How Will CMS 2025 Affect My Hospital? How Can We Improve Quality and Patient Outcomes? What Are the Steps for Integration into Quality Improvement? How Can We Improve Data Management and Staff Training? How Can We Address What Matters to Patients? How Can We Improve Mobility for Older Adults?

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Hospital Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Over 20 years after the landmark National Academy of Medicine (NAM) report To Err is Human and over a decade after Peter Pronovost catapulted the scientific approach to patient safety, [.].

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Patient Safety

MARCH 17, 2022

It is not uncommon for those involved in hospital- or healthcare organization–based quality improvement (QI) initiatives to implement a robust QI project, present the results within the organization, celebrate wins, and quickly move on to the next project that demands attention. The following framework is based on the SQUIRE 2.0

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2024

This strategic acquisition signifies Graphium Health’s unwavering commitment to improving patient safety and practice efficiency through innovative data management tools. This enhanced platform will offer: Quality Improvement (QI) and OPPE reports: Empowering providers to track progress and meet Joint Commission standards.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. Quality Benchmarks ACOs report on multiple quality measures for the effectiveness of care quality.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 21, 2025

Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success Hospital are continually seeking effective strategies to elevate patient satisfaction and improve quality outcomes. However, despite their potential, many hospitals find that these initiatives often fall short of expectations.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Background: Delirium can occur in cancer patients during an acute hospitalization or in the terminal stages of cancer. Iatrogenic delirium can complicate hospital stays for over 2.6 days for patients screening positive for delirium.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

Multi-disciplinary surgical teams are hard-pressed to convene safety huddles (or team briefs)–short meetings that proactively enable them to focus on patient safety, team alignment, and communication. We believe that quality, efficiency, and clinician experience can be a win-win-win. ”

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

In a concentrated effort to combat rising levels of burnout and retain physicians, hospitals have turned towards HR departments to offer competitive benefits to boost hiring and allocate resources. In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks.

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Patient Safety

MARCH 17, 2022

A review of the highest- acuity emergency airway calls at our university hospital revealed that well over 20% of the emergencies that triggered these activations were in patients with existing tracheostomy tubes. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) data presented by Gardner et al.

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The Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 11, 2021

We began around 2009 in Kenya, I was an orthopaedic SHO at the time and had spent time in the surgical department at Nanyuki District Hospital, so we began in orthopaedic trauma. We’ve grown organically over the years, now with 8 streams ranging from Trauma, Quality Improvement to community education and development. .

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. Striving to create a culture of quality is an important goal for home health organizations. But how will they do it?

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The star ratings are based upon OASIS measures — such as how often the home health team taught patients about their drugs — and claims-based measures, such as how often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital. The data used for our study were obtained from the CMS Home Health Compare dataset.

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Patient Safety

MARCH 17, 2022

This week marks Patient Safety Awareness Week. In this issue, you will find stories of the individuals and teams recognized by the Patient Safety Authority (PSA) in our 2022 I AM Patient Safety Annual Achievement Awards. This issue’s cover features an article by Akiyama et al.,

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Today, September 17, 2021, is World Patient Safety Day. While the United States breathed a sigh of relief early this summer, many communities are once again facing record numbers of patients who are sick and hospitalized with COVID-19. The worst part may be the millions of people who still believe the pandemic is a hoax.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 17, 2023

It provides guidance for implementing the training modules using a quality improvement (QI) approach. This guide offers ideas and suggestions for overcoming challenges in getting staff to take the modules and for putting the recommended improvement strategies into practice smoothly. Start by viewing the training modules.

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CAPS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

CAPS provided Patient and Family Engagement technical support to the Hospital Engagement Networks (2012-2015) and Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (2015-2020) programs and the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (2015-2019). Patients participated in in-person events and were members of Affinity Groups.

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Hospital Medicine

MARCH 9, 2022

appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine. We explored the most fundamental question in the electronic health record (EHR): what makes a good note? Honest question, has [.]. The post #JHMChat Recap: EHR Documentation–What Makes a Good Note?

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Hospital Medicine

JUNE 21, 2021

The post Providing Inclusive Care for Vulnerable Populations In Conjunction With LGBTQ+ Pride Month appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine. The LGBTQ+ community is comprised of over 11 million Americans, or 4.5% of the U.S. population with all ages, races, [.].

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Assess Quality: Evaluate performance on over 600 measures, including 250+ nursing-sensitive indicators like falls, pressure injuries, and hospital-acquired infections. This will: Save Time: Nursing leaders can spend less time on manual reporting and more time focusing on quality improvement initiatives.

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Sequence Health

MARCH 6, 2025

Medical call centers play a crucial role in post-surgical care and follow-up calls, specifically highlighting the role of medical call centers in post-surgical care and follow-up calls by improving patient satisfaction , reducing hospital readmissions, and enhancing patient safety.

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Sequence Health

MARCH 9, 2025

Medical call centers play a crucial role in post-surgical care and follow-up calls, specifically highlighting the role of medical call centers in post-surgical care and follow-up calls by improving patient satisfaction , reducing hospital readmissions, and enhancing patient safety.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 14, 2023

Trend #1: Consolidation of IT Procurement In recent years, changes to the health systems in countries such as the US and UK, for example, are making standalone hospitals a thing of the past.

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Sequence Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Through accurate record-keeping, they address patient needs, boost patient satisfaction scores, and contribute to better health outcomes. Additionally, regular assessments of patient satisfaction through surveys enable centers to refine services, fostering greater patient retention and improved care quality.

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Hospital Medicine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine. This question was recently debated in our Point: Counterpoint series and got [.]. The post The Routine Daily Physical Exam: Worthwhile or Waste of Time?

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Hospital Medicine

MARCH 17, 2023

The post Walk A Mile in My Shoes: Dismantling Preconceptions of Ableism and Chronic Illness appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine. Specifically, ableism is discrimination of and prejudice against people with disabilities and is rooted in the belief that [.]

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It is operational across 231 hospitals and medical practice sites in the U.S. New York City’s Supportive Transition and Recovery Team (NYC START) program is a free suite of services using the Critical Time Intervention model offered to young adults between ages 16 and 30 who are hospitalized for a first-episode psychosis.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” And so what I would say mainly, especially to employers, to hospital systems, there’s always been sort of a stigma about online. We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. Now you need online education.”

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

As the financial markets turned south, many institutions saw their investment income stagnate, reducing the support it historically provided to hospitals’ thin operating margins. But growing that revenue will require a new approach to the perennial challenges around patient access and patient flow in perioperative and inpatient settings.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

With this issue, we celebrate our three-year anniversary of Patient Safety ! When we began this journey, we sought to highlight the intersection of patient safety science and real human experience. I hope you believe we’ve done just that! This issue captures that intersection so well. The first U.S. Jennings, Sr.,

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Patient Safety Leadership Award Recognition Joe Kiani Receives the 2023 Robert L.

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Medical GPS

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

But for patients, what makes a digital care management platform usable has more to do with content personalization and care continuity than the simplicity of its user interface.” (5). If your practice does not already have an ongoing, continuous quality improvement program in place, consider deploying MedicalGPS’ Endeavor for Excellence.

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NASHP

JANUARY 24, 2025

Finally, the rule codifies existing flexibility for issuers to offer non-standard options across each network type, metal level, or based on the provision of adult dental, pediatric dental, and adult vision.

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