Quality and Safety
While only 17 percent of the working age U.S. population, adults with disabilities account for disproportionately high (almost 40 percent) emergency department visits, according to a recent study from National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers.
A new healthcare commission announced last week will focus on developing state-level policies aimed at reducing the cost of care while improving quality.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed 14 infectious disease quality measures designed to help providers evaluate patients, manage treatments and improve patient care.
Two labor unions in California are formalizing what has been a longstanding informal relationship. The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) announced last week a legal affiliation that is for now a strategic alliance rather than a merger.
In a recent analysis of nationally representative data published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication, significant improvement in the delivery of underused care was shown; however, the overuse of ambulatory healthcare services hardly changed between the years of 1998 and 2009.
In Reducing surgical complications: How to make it happen faster, I contrasted the way a hospital gets paid for rework with what happens in a manufacturing environment.
A nurses' union in California is celebrating what it calls a first-in-the-nation workplace safety benefit in its new agreement with Centinela Hospital.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $1.9 million to fund five regional and one national telehealth resource center.
A 2.3 percent medical device tax went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, despite claims from medical device companies that the tax will significantly hurt their businesses.
As healthcare organizations increase their focus on data security and HIPAA compliance, Kroll's Cyber Security Forecast offers a list of four concerns every provider should take very seriously.