Quality and Safety
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded $34 million for projects focused on preventing healthcare-associated infections.
Technology company Pitney Bowes has seen results from an initiative to stabilize its employees' adherence to their medication treatment regimens, according to a study published in November's Health Affairs.
During a recent exchange with sixteen national firms that offered a multi-stakeholder perspective, an interesting question surfaced: what is the “healthcare financial network”? Besides being characterized as critical infrastructure by Homeland Security, deemed the target of government reform in the Affordable Care Act and impacted by 5010 compliancy and ICD-10 transformation, well, what is it?
Medical records are, of course, at the core of every Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) complex review. It's up to physicians and other providers to document the information needed to prove medical necessity and, ultimately, for hospitals to receive proper payments for services rendered.
With all that’s going on in the arena of healthcare reform, one wonders whether hospitals have the time to properly manage their doctors.
For healthcare organizations that don’t have a firm grasp on social networking, that unflattering Twitter comment or Facebook photo is just the tip of the iceberg.
Patients treated at five-star-rated hospitals had a 72 percent lower risk of dying compared to those at one-star-rated hospitals, according to a study by the healthcare ratings organization HealthGrades.
Zynx Health is lending its clinical decision support tools to the push for accountable care organizations in a pilot project with five healthcare organizations from across the nation.
David G. Daniel, Chief executive officer, Lakeland Surgical & Diagnostic Center, Lakeland Fla.
The Integrated Healthcare Association, which promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, has named its top 45 performing physician organizations for 2009, based on the IHA’s statewide Pay for Performance program measures.