Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

based Children's National Hospital Telemedicine team identified a disparity in access to the internet and digital tools that disproportionately affects low-income and rural communities, causing a digital divide. "Also, use data to drive continuous improvement," she added.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 12, 2023

A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Transfer to intensive care unit >6 hours Methods: Surgical inpatients from a variety of surgical specialties (general, vascular, breast, colorectal, hepatobiliary, and plastic surgery) in a large university teaching hospital were included.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 4, 2022

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system. Collaboration is key to the ability to improve patient outcomes.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders Quality improvement in hospitals is more than a goalits a commitment that requires an organization-wide cultural shift. A culture of quality doesnt emerge overnight, nor is it the result of a single initiative. Clear Communication 2.

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Background: Inadequate hand-off communication from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) hinders SNF nurses’ ability to prepare for specific patient needs, including prescriptions for critical medications, such as controlled medications and intravenous (IV) antibiotics, resulting in delayed medication administration.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

The American Medical Association this week, along with Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Joint Commission, announced the launch of a new learning network to help U.S. health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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p3care

DECEMBER 3, 2024

These details serve as a record to ensure continuity of care and quality improvement. Hospitals use these records to treat patients effectively. This system ensures standardized Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in pre-hospital environments and evaluates the quality of care.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The APeX platform is designed to streamline operational and clinical workflows to achieve the boost care quality, improve patient experience and reduce administrative burdens. In MarinHealth provider settings, clinicians can gain access to more complete patient records, helping them to make better diagnoses and treatment decisions.

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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 Improve Mobility for Older Adults? What’s the Next Step for My Hospital?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In December, the program went live at the South Australian Medical Imaging (SAMI) Nuclear Medicine Theranostics Service of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) in Adelaide. The service's previous digital survey solution relied on patients to complete the survey while in the clinic waiting room using a hospital-supplied device.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 18, 2024

What You Should Know: – FTI Consulting’s inaugural Hospital Operations Outlook Survey paints a picture of a healthcare industry navigating a complex post-pandemic environment. – The FTI Consulting survey unveils the multifaceted challenges and opportunities facing hospitals today. .

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. Hospitals and health systems have long understood the need to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, yet despite a renewed sense of urgency, many of them lack comprehensive glycemic management measures that can drive success.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2025

For example, at Stanford Medicine Childrens Health, we are a high-acuity hospital that cares for medically complex patients from around the nation and the globe. Prior to her transition to SMCH in July 2024, Dr. Unaka was a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 11, 2023

Public reporting of hospital quality of care could improve the care patients receive through at least two pathways. First, patients (or their physicians) could send patients to higher quality hospitals (i.e., 2012 ) and improvement has been very slow. 2012 ) and improvement has been very slow.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 22, 2025

This situation leads to increased emergency department (ED) visits, hospital admissions or placements in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). How the expanded HHVBP model affects HHAs The expanded HHVBP model aims to improve the quality and efficiency of home health care. Based on the success of the original model, the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. By Andrea Fox | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a. The process.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

"Other key performance indicators, such as length of stay, readmissions and patient safety, will give UConn Health insight into macro trends at the procedural, clinician, facility and population levels for ongoing quality improvement," Moss said. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

David Smith, CFO of Anatomy IT The two largest technology trends occurring in healthcare delivery – digital transformation and cyberattacks – are understandably driving the adoption of more IT platforms, applications, and other tools within health systems and hospitals.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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NCQA

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Quality improvement may not get as much attention as football, but its also a team sport. Fragmentation vs. Integration Measuring parts of the systemhealth care practitioners, hospitals, health plansleads to fragmentation. While youre watching the big game this weekend (or just enjoying the commercials!)

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p3care

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Not only that, but it determines the quality of care within hospitals, practices, and clinics should meet certain standards. MIPS program has four categories that cater to meaningful quality healthcare services. Improvement Activities (IA). Key Elements of QPP MIPS. Promoting Interoperability (PI).

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Beterra

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Visionary Leader in Healthcare Safety and Quality: Jill White of Baptist Health South Florida Few leaders embody the intersection of mastery in safety and quality improvement and heartfelt dedication like Jill White. Several exceptional safety and quality improvement tools are still labor-intensive and require manual reviews.

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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 The percentage of inpatient falls that were linked to an episode of delirium during hospitalization reduced from 23.4%

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NCQA

MARCH 18, 2025

Join us in Baltimore on April 78 to connect and engage with the quality improvement community! NCQAs Health Quality Forum is a 2-day event where you can explore strategies to increase access, reduce disparities and tackle the unique challenges faced by people with complex and chronic health conditions.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2024

Priti Shah, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Iodine Software Forward-thinking hospitals have long recognized clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and utilization management (UM) as priorities for a successful revenue cycle. Now is the time for hospitals to explore how to further automate and integrate their CDI and UM functions.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

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. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Notably, gaps in care are especially prevalent when patients are being discharged from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and going back into the home, a new report from the United Hospital Fund (UHF) found. And there has been some improvement.”. I definitely think that things are getting better,” Guzik said. “As

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

2023 , the answer is ‘no’ The authors use data from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Data, Hospital Cost Reporting Information System Data, Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System Data, and American Hospital Association Annual Survey for 15 states between 2008 to 2014.

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CHQ Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Applying some of these basic quality improvement strategies from the Lean methodology can help you identify and eliminate waste and standardize your processes to increase efficiency, lower costs, and improve employee job satisfaction. Voice of the Customer. But there’s no better time to begin making changes than right now. “It

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CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

To keep providers and patients safe, hospitals are shedding their initial he sitation to adopt virtual care , and are using video consultations for everything from routine visits to virtual triage. If the video or audio connection is poor, use in-call messaging until the quality improves. . Top tips for patients: .

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HIT Consultant

MAY 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Regard today announced a 3-year enterprise agreement to deploy Regard’s AI clinical automation tool to the system’s 3 acute care hospitals by the end of 2024. Regard’s technology employs AI and proprietary algorithms to generate valuable clinical insights.

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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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p3care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Overall, the new MIPS inventory has 106 improvement activities that have not been finalized yet. The title for this new IA is ‘“Practice-Wide Quality Improvement in MVPs’. Meanwhile, CMS has permanently removed 3 improvement activities, whereas 1 got a modification. CMS has a strategic reason behind this modification.

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NASHP

JANUARY 13, 2025

One person who worked on this legislation stated that one of the reasons the bill passed without opposition was pediatric palliative care had demonstrated high satisfaction rates among caregivers and providers, decreases in hospitalization rates, and either cost savings or cost neutrality. therapy providers).

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