Articles Tagged With: quality
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First-of-its-kind perioperative surgical home initiative
Most participants in the perioperative surgical home learning collaborative reported they enhanced clinical quality, controlled costs, and/or improved patient experiences as a result of their initiatives.
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Colonoscopy quality varies among facilities
Researchers have found important variation in quality of colonoscopies among outpatient facilities.
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Discharge planning proposed rule focuses on patient preferences
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed to revise the discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies, must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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NPSF says patient safety still a serious concern
Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine brought public attention to the issue of medical errors and adverse events, patient safety concerns remain a serious public health issue that must be tackled with a more pervasive response, according to a report released recently by the National Patient Safety Foundation in Boston.
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Quality department evolution to deeper data, more efficient action
Health system quality departments are beginning a transformation from the oversee-everything focus of past years to a more efficient process in which quality managers provide support, while allowing front line leaders to analyze and act on data.
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Quality management’s role evolves as hospitals shift to population health
The U.S. health system’s new transition to a population health model has resulted in healthcare systems and payers adjusting to new kinds of contracts and payment reform. Fee-for-service is being phased out and replaced with the concept of providing quality care for a population as cost-effectively as possible.
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Moving from data to action – Finding meaning in numbers
As healthcare systems shift from the fee-for-service model to managing health across a population of patients, hospital quality managers’ work using quality indicators and other data is moving to front and center of the evolution.
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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.
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Triple Aim pursues higher quality, lower costs
The possibility is high that you will be hearing more about Triple Aim as hospitals adopt this approach to quality improvement. The Triple Aim is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that describes an approach to optimizing health system performance.
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Hospital meets Triple Aim goal, improves safety
Improved monitoring has helped Lafayette General Health improve outcomes. The effort was part of the hospital’s goal to achieve the Triple Aim.