Articles Tagged With: Performance
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Care Improved by Providing Better Feedback to Hospitalists
Providing detailed feedback to hospitalists, including key quality metrics, can improve the quality of care they provide patients, according to the results of a program at a Wisconsin medical college.
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Assess Quality and Compliance as Telehealth Use Expands
With healthcare organizations making so much use of telehealth now, how does one assess the quality of care provided through this technology? How can one ensure the facility is in compliance with the relevant requirements for coding and reimbursement?
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Benchmarking: Required Reading
Discovering information that can be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes to achieve a competitive advantage.
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Capsaicin for Muscle Energy
Ten men ran 1,500 meters six seconds faster and were slightly less fatigued after ingesting 12 mg of capsaicin than after ingesting a placebo capsule.
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Be Ready for Challenges to Data Reliability
Data transparency is one of the most effective mechanisms for incentivizing physician behavior change, but one of the first reactions to unveiling physicians’ performance among their peers usually is to question the validity and source of the data, says Kelly Tiberio, manager of GE Healthcare Camden Group, a consulting company based in Los Angeles.
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Your Most Expensive Asset Might Be at Risk
I enjoy writing about issues that affect all of us in the surgery industry, from freestanding ambulatory surgery centers to hospital-based to office-based.
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Examples of high and low scoring in management study
The recent study in Health Affairs by Thomas Tsai, MD, MPH, a surgeon and health policy researcher in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, did not include examples of how the hospitals were scored on specific factors related to the board of directors and management. -
Hospital Board, Management Closely Tied to Quality
Quality healthcare begins at the top, with CEOs and hospital boards setting the right tone and expectations. Here's why it's important to get it right.