Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
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TJC launches 'solution exchange' to addresses core measures
Believing that facilities that have significantly improved their performance in core measures will be able to help others improve by sharing their experiences and knowledge, The Joint Commission has launched what it calls 'The Joint Commission's Core Measure Solution Exchange' to facilitate this process through the establishment of a website where hospitals can both post and search for information. -
Study examines trends for Medicare patients at EOL
A new study from the Dartmouth Atlas Project seems to indicate the "report card" for Medicare patients at the end of their lives is a mixed bag of pluses and minuses. -
News Brief: Meaningful use quality requirements clarified
New regulations always bring with them their share of questions and confusion, but perhaps none in recent memory have raised as many questions as those governing "meaningful use." -
Callbacks can improve patient satisfaction
With Medicare's new value-based purchasing (VBP) program set to begin impacting payments to most acute-care hospitals in October 2012, providers have been put on notice that the fee-for-service payment methodology is being gradually replaced by payment formulas that reward quality. -
OB program aims to cut claims, improve safety
The nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit healthcare system is launching a demonstration project to determine best methods to reduce or eliminate birth complications and at the same time seeking to avoid obstetrics claims through a renewed emphasis on transparency and full disclosure. -
Tips for cutting infection risks in the ED
You may have been taking care of a patient for hours without realizing he or she has an infection that requires isolation. -
Boost care coordination between ED, primary care
If improved care coordination is integral to bending the health care cost curve, then the interchange between emergency physicians and primary care practitioners (PCPs) is in need of significant improvement, according to a new study on this issue conducted by the Washington, DC-based Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) for the nonprofit National Institute for Health Care Reform (NIHCR).