Navigating government affairs in healthcare: Driving quality improvements
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
But we can only do that job effectively through a relentless focus on quality. In healthcare, serving people is the real Job 1.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
But we can only do that job effectively through a relentless focus on quality. In healthcare, serving people is the real Job 1.
Meditech
MAY 7, 2024
Engaging in quality improvement efforts is a critical part of providing the best possible care to patients. By utilizing innovative technology and solutions, healthcare providers can streamline processes, reduce errors, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
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Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
In this article we're helping you to find out where to focus your quality improvement efforts showcase some real-life examples from leading organisations.
Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In this blog we are going to look at the difference between audit and research in Quality Improvement (QI) and how these methodologies can work together in the quality space. Let’s start by taking a look at Quality Improvement or QI. There are many definitions of QI.
Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
Quality improvement tools were used to generate regular dialogue with the clinical teams, resulting in the concept of the surgical safety huddle being proposed. Deteriorating patients were highlighted at the daily huddle and a plan of early intervention was implemented.
Life Qi
MAY 31, 2021
As the Point of Care Quality Improvement (POCQI) Coaching Guide neatly sums up: ‘Regular coaching is important for maintaining momentum in improving quality of care.’ QI coaching usually takes place in a team environment, but coaching in a one-to-one style - or coaching individuals - can also be really effective.
Life Qi
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
We also discovered how they will plan and deliver joined up services to improve the health of people in their localities. In earlier articles in this series of blogs, we have looked at how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are being created to provide partnerships of health and care.
HIT Consultant
JULY 4, 2022
Without all of the teams involved in clinical care working as one team to quickly identify problems, find evidence-based practices, run tests of change, study results, and identify and disseminate improvements, progress will be spotty at best.
Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
In this blog, we‘re going to be looking at how you can measure scale and spread in your Quality Improvement (QI) projects and what methods you can use to help you do this. Let’s start by defining spread and scale in QI. If you haven’t already, you might want to look at our article ‘Spread and scale – what’s the difference?’
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Two-thirds of patients receiving three months of outpatient therapy will not reach remission, a new analysis of behavioral health therapy outcomes data reveals. | Practitioners can use the framework, known as the Blueprint Quality Index (BQI), to track quality improvement over time, as well as assess the effect of programmatic or infrastructure changes (..)
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2023
The entire Memorandum is important so be sure to review it in its entirety, including these items on the last 3 pages: Revised Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies Enforcement Cases Quality Improvement Organization Support The information in this Memorandum is effective immediately.
Meditech
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
We all have grand aspirations as we embark on new projects, but many times, even the best-laid plans are at the mercy of an all too common roadblock: “it’s just not the right time.”.
Patient Safety
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Methods: Lewin’s change management theory (CMT) guided this quality improvement (QI) project. This project was conducted in an inpatient, 50-bed, post-hospital skilled nursing care unit of a local SNF. The participants included all 32 staff nurses employed by the SNF.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The healthcare industry has made significant strides in care quality improvement, but its approach to submitting and paying claims is still overly complex.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 12, 2023
The research – controlling for role, location and unit – found that higher levels of nurse burnout were linked to a greater workloads around quality improvement efforts.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 29, 2023
" Following the initial trial, Personify Care's digital patient pathways have been deployed for various use cases across the network.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Reveleer, a health tech company focused on value-based care, has unveiled two new suites of solutions for risk-bearing providers. | The Prospective Risk Adjustment and Quality Improvement product suites are designed to ease providers’ administrative burden and deliver timely clinical insights at the point of care.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The new company will be led by CEO Dave Kerwar, who has previously served as chief product officer at Mount Sinai Health System, where he developed IT-driven direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer and population health programs focused on quality improvement and cost efficiencies.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Embarking on a virtual care journey for chronic care management demands a holistic approach: recognizing transformative potential, building a robust technological foundation, fostering collaboration, promoting patient engagement and prioritizing data-driven quality improvement.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
WHY IT MATTERS The INCA rollout is part of NQPHN's First Nations Continuous Quality Improvement programme, which seeks to improve the access to culturally safe health assessments for First Nations people.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Digital transformation also is essential in making an impact on quality improvement and cost containment goals associated with value-based care initiatives." "Embracing digital transformation is key in order to align with patient demands and maintain market share. " PROPOSAL.
Healthcare It News
MAY 20, 2022
health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. The goal of the Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network – which offers a year-long mentorship and networking program – is to improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations.
p3care
DECEMBER 10, 2020
MIPS program has four categories that cater to meaningful quality healthcare services. Improvement Activities (IA). The quality category replaced the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) and reflects the efforts to improve the quality of care. Key Elements of QPP MIPS. Promoting Interoperability (PI).
Home Health Care
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
The Continuous Skilled Nursing Quality Improvement Act (S.4122) It would also require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to move to establish national quality standards of care for these services. Vance (R-OH) and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH). Reinarman, vice president of government relations, told HHCN in an email. “We
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 3, 2025
Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication Enterprise Taxonomy: Quality Improvement Quality Care Care It's a win-win for everyone involved.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
"The quality improvement education and support provided by the ImPower program, coupled with EAMC’s commitment to improve patient outcomes, and Inflo Health’s willingness to adapt their product, made these advancements possible," she said.
p3care
MAY 14, 2023
Rather, they are looking for opportunities to implement meaningful quality improvement activities. Are you ready to showcase your devotion to taking quality care to the next level? MIPS 2023 gives you the right direction to get engaged in quality improvement activities.
CDC
JUNE 7, 2023
A CDC-supported initiative at The University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) in Vietnam that used IPC quality improvement (QI) strategies to reduce CRE colonization and infection in a general intensive care unit (ICU) demonstrates the positive impact that IPC activities can have on CRE prevention.
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.
Life Qi
JULY 18, 2022
In this article we are going to look at Bill Smith, another Quality Improvement (QI) hero – and sometimes known as the ‘father of Six Sigma’.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Further, an integrated platform allows the organization to track telehealth visits within the same quality improvement framework that it uses for in-person visits. Having a well-integrated telehealth platform enabled City of Hope to develop consistent workflows around telehealth that supported an enhanced patient experience.
Life Qi
OCTOBER 10, 2022
Kaoru Ishikawa is considered the ‘Father of Japanese Quality’ for his creation of innovative developments in quality management. He is famous for creating the fishbone diagram, a type of ‘root cause analysis’ which we still use in Quality Improvement (QI) to help make decisions and create actions.
Life Qi
JANUARY 17, 2023
Avedis Donabedian is our penultimate Quality Improvement (QI) hero in our series of blogs. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1919, he studied as a doctor and made his way into quality improvement, becoming a key influence and innovator in improvement in healthcare.
Life Qi
JULY 20, 2022
Total Quality Management or TQM is a quality management approach often used in Quality Improvement (QI), with a focus on producing quality products and services in order to fulfil customer needs.
Life Qi
DECEMBER 15, 2022
We'll also see how this can help your quality improvement (QI) team. In the last article, we looked at how and when to use a driver diagram in your quality improvement project. Described as illustrating a ‘theory of change’ , driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities’.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 26, 2024
By leveraging virtual care platforms, Northern Health can deliver more accessible, patient-centred, cost-effective, and high-quality care that aligns with the objectives of value-based care models, ultimately improving health outcomes and patient satisfaction while optimising resource utilisation.
Life Qi
JUNE 23, 2022
Taiichi Ohno (1912 - 1990) was a leader in industrial engineering and is well known as the creator of the Toyota Production System, which in turn inspired the Lean theory and stemmed a wide range of Quality Improvement processes.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
" Dr Rohini Omkar Prasad, Digital Heath Strategist, HIMSS Junghan Song, president and CEO of SNUBH, says the pursuit of the EMRAM validation signals the hospital’s dedication to quality improvement, enhancing safety, and providing efficient healthcare while adhering to international standards.
Healthcare It News
APRIL 20, 2022
The same is true in care delivery, where the ability to pair patient-generated and/or reported data with secondary data from care delivery has the potential to revolutionize decision support, quality improvement, and digital guideline development.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Be part of a new day in nursing home quality improvement! We’re excited to share the latest updates on vital topics to advance quality and address your needs, such as: Clostridiodes difficile. Nursing Home Quality Improvement. Join the IPRO QIN-QIO for a dedicated day of learning just for you. Adverse Drug Events.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
Enterprise Taxonomy: Quality Improvement Value-based care Quality Care.
Life Qi
AUGUST 10, 2021
The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread (..)
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.
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