Quality and Safety
Advocate Health Care Network will pay $5.5 million to settle with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights regarding multiple potential HIPAA violations that involved electronic protected health information, HHS announced.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.
According to researchers at the University of Michigan, the more a hospital relies on its ICU to treat heart patients, the worse their results are, especially when it comes to 30-day morbidity.
Evidence suggests the technology can assist clinicians in earlier detection of patient deterioration, helping to reduce patient length of stay, minimize use of intensive care units, reduce falls and pressure ulcers and avoid cardiac and respiratory arrests.
Premier Inc. is joining forces with America's Essential Hospitals, which champions care for vulnerable populations, in a bid to improve quality, cost and population health at its member hospitals.
A Ukrainian hacker said he has stolen over 105,000 internal documents from Central Ohio Urology Group, based in Gahanna, Ohio. The Urology Group is touted to be the second-largest health system in the state with 24 locations.
Not only did the clinics see new patients, but the demand for services soared from existing ones who were newly insured.
The federal government will punish more than half of the nation's hospitals -- a total of 2,597 -- for excess readmissions by withholding more than half a billion dollars in Medicare payments over the next year, records released Tuesday show.
The money comes as the number of Zika-infected patients in Miami passed 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning to the area, and many people are blaming Congress for not acting earlier to fund Zika work.
Many facilities miss out, or score low, in ratings from U.S. News, Leapfrog and Healthgrades.