Quality and Safety
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the first group of prospective winners of its Health Care Innovation Awards. The winners could receive receive $2 million to $18 million each over three years for trying innovative care models.
The healthcare industry recognizes the need to reduce its impact on the environment, yet sustainability isn't always a high priority among the decision makers at individual U.S. hospitals. Here are some ideas to help your facility get started.
Almost a third of all hospitalizations now treat diabetic patients, and cost more than average. Diabetic admissions may be a problem that regulators, ACOs and providers need to solve for the long-term.
Quality measurement in healthcare has always been difficult and expensive. In fact, most of today's measures do not create enough value for actual healthcare users and, as a result, have little impact on improving care and lowering costs.
As patient outcomes become increasingly linked to reimbursement, hospital quality and finance teams must coordinate better than ever before. Deborah Larkin-Carney, vice president of quality at Barnabas Health, shares how quality and finance connect at her health system.
In a region brimming with high-ranked hospitals but still suffering from poor care coordination, four health systems are initiating a new joint venture to find efficiencies and lure payer partners.
Hospitals may have less control over readmissions than clinicians, administrators or federal regulators would like to believe, new research suggests, meaning that the readmissions penalties imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may be inappropriate.
Engagement is a big buzzword in healthcare these days. Every program seeks to achieve it; every provider wants to enhance it. But what is engagement exactly?
Most hospital administrators choose to implement vendor management systems to keep track of who is in the facility, what they are doing in the facility and to make sure the vendors have the training the organization wants them to have, but today's vendor management technologies allow for expanded uses.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a highly regarded teaching hospital in Boston, but in 2012, the hospital found out it had one of the highest rates of readmissions among Medicare patients in the country. That meant federal fines of more than $1 million -- and a lot of soul searching for the staff.