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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...
The IHI Improvement Capability SelfâAssessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...
This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...
In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...
In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...
South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...
Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...
While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...
This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...
CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...
Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...
This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...
The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...
An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...
The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...
The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...
The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...
