Quality and Safety
As hospitals continue to look for ways to cut costs, a team at Stanford Medicine is looking at how facilities can shave dollars off medical device purchases.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday updated the quality scores for 40,000 physicians who shared benchmarks under the Physician Quality Reporting System, despite outcry by the American Medical Association that the data is incomplete.
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Vallejo, California were recently cited by Cal/OSHA for safety violations after inadequate safety practices resulted in workers being stabbed by needles on multiple occasions.
Since 1993, 11 people have been killed in abortion-related attacks -- doctors, clinic staff, and last week, a police officer and two visitors in the line of fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. While the investigation continues into the shooter's background and motives, David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University, says that stalking and harassment pose a much more common threat to abortion providers and their families.
One in three family physicians are actively pursuing a move to value-based payment and an additional 19 percent are developing the capabilities for it, a new study sponsored by Humana and conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians has found.
The Leapfrog Group on Wednesday announced its top hospitals, celebrating 98 facilities for what they determined was excellence in quality of care and patient safety.
From 2010 to 2014, there's been 2.1 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions; 87,000 fewer hospital-acquired condition related deaths; and $19.8 billion in costs have been averted, according to CMS Deputy Director Patrick Conway.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking healthcare providers for information to aid in the design of a new survey of patient experience in long-term care hospitals.
This year, Healthcare Finance is asking its audience of healthcare finance decision-makers to help us rank the top issues with its inaugural, "Year that was, year that will be" survey.
OIG will determine the extent to which Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services validated hospital inpatient quality reporting data.