Bernie Monegain
The 333 hospitals taking part in Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST collaborative saved 92,000 lives and $9.1 billion over four-and-a-half years, Premier announced on March 19, and if the practices employed in the collaborative were replicated nationwide, Premier officials say, hospitals potentially could save 950,000 lives and approximately $93 billion.
Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center announced last week they have developed a tool designed to eliminate 30-day hospital readmissions for heart failure patients and improve the quality of medical care a patient receives in the hospital.
Former President Bill Clinton's talk Wednesday at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition encompassed politics, economics, history, climate change, childhood obesity, health information technology, and even the art of the deal.
The charts said it all -- high levels of quality improvement coupled with significant savings as Hawai'i Pacific Health changed the way it provided care and started tracking gains on both the clinical side and the financial side.
Carolyn Clancy, MD, will step down as director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) after 10 years leading the organization.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 14 infectious disease quality measures designed to help providers evaluate patients, manage treatments and improve patient care.
Jonathan Bush, CEO of cloud-based EMR provider athenahealth, talks about his company's growth strategy, how he plans to keep up with competitors and what keeps him up at night.
Allscripts announced Thursday that its Q3 bookings were down 39 percent. In the wake of its poor performance, CEO Glen Tullman confirmed that the firm is considering "strategic alternatives" for a possible sale of the company.
Electronic health record systems vendor Allscripts announced Monday that it has hired Richard J. Poulton as its new CFO. Poulton will step into the role on Oct. 29.
As Medical Group Management Association president Susan Turney prepares for the group's annual conference in San Antonio on October 21-24, she took time out to discuss the biggest financial and IT challenges currently facing the healthcare industry.