Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – August 1, 2005
August 1, 2005
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Want your QI program to succeed? Keep your eye on the fundamentals
The top professional basketball players still practice foul shots. The best golfers in the world spend hours at the practice range. Whatever their profession, successful individuals continually practice the fundamentals. -
Study raises concerns on public reporting of data
A vehicle designed to boost quality the public reporting of outcomes may in some cases be doing just the opposite, according to the authors of a new report. -
Home-grown CDR draws high utilization and award
An award-winning centralized database at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, not only has enhanced provider access to clinical data covering hundreds of thousands of patients, but it has provided the launching point for countless quality improvement projects, hospital officials say. -
New P4P program uses established measures
The Leapfrog Group, based in Washington, DC, has launched a new incentive program for hospitals that it hopes will do for the private sector what the Premier/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project appears to be doing for Medicare. -
Integration software saves thousands of hours
When St. Michaels Hospital in Stevens Point, WI, acquired Rice Medical Centers multispecialty practice a 110,000 square-foot state-of-the-art clinic that housed more than 75 physicians it was presented with the challenge of merging the clinics 140,000 patient medical records from Rices system into the hospitals own MEDITECH system. -
Researchers: HIPAA hampers QI work
A paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests an apparent conflict between protecting individual patients privacy and improving the quality, safety, and cost of medical care for all patients. -
News Briefs
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will award more than $8 million in funding for 15 projects over two years that are designed to help clinicians, facilities, and patients implement evidence-based patient safety practices.