Navigating government affairs in healthcare: Driving quality improvements
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
In healthcare, serving people is the real Job 1. But we can only do that job effectively through a relentless focus on quality.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
In healthcare, serving people is the real Job 1. But we can only do that job effectively through a relentless focus on quality.
Meditech
MAY 7, 2024
Engaging in quality improvement efforts is a critical part of providing the best possible care to patients. By utilizing innovative technology and solutions, healthcare providers can streamline processes, reduce errors, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
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HIT Consultant
JULY 4, 2022
The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. Conversely, systems designed to produce collaboration can drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes.
Life Qi
MAY 31, 2021
As the Point of Care Quality Improvement (POCQI) Coaching Guide neatly sums up: ‘Regular coaching is important for maintaining momentum in improving quality of care.’ QI coaching usually takes place in a team environment, but coaching in a one-to-one style - or coaching individuals - can also be really effective.
Briggs Healthcare
JANUARY 11, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. IHI’s Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit includes the tools and templates you need to launch a successful quality improvement project and manage performance improvement. Then open and use that version of the tool.
Briggs Healthcare
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated and illuminated quality failings in nursing homes, persistent equity issues, and the system- and policy-level factors that contribute to their endurance.
Briggs Healthcare
MARCH 30, 2023
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS just posted QSO-23-10-NH (4 pages) with the same title as this blog. Please review this Memorandum with your team and share it will your colleagues.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The healthcare industry has made significant strides in care quality improvement, but its approach to submitting and paying claims is still overly complex.
Patient Safety
MARCH 17, 2022
It is not uncommon for those involved in hospital- or healthcare organization–based quality improvement (QI) initiatives to implement a robust QI project, present the results within the organization, celebrate wins, and quickly move on to the next project that demands attention. The following framework is based on the SQUIRE 2.0
Briggs Healthcare
AUGUST 16, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) permits states to direct collected civil money penalty funds for quality improvement projects that enhance the quality of care and the quality of life for NF residents. academic institutions.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 12, 2023
A new study, led by health policy researchers from Rand Corporation, and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, surveyed pediatric nurses at an urban children's hospital to assess the factors that may or may not be contributing to feelings of burnout. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Life Qi
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Why use PDSAs in healthcare? In this article we are going to take a look at why the ‘Plan-Do-Study-Act’ or PDSA cycle is so widely used within healthcare organisations. We’re going to delve into the benefits – and any disadvantages – of using PDSAs in healthcare and how you can use them to drive Quality Improvement.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Two-thirds of patients receiving three months of outpatient therapy will not reach remission, a new analysis of behavioral health therapy outcomes data reveals. | Practitioners can use the framework, known as the Blueprint Quality Index (BQI), to track quality improvement over time, as well as assess the effect of programmatic or infrastructure changes (..)
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2023
For those of us who have been working directly in the artificial intelligence space for years, specifically in healthcare, these are both trying and exciting times. This is especially true in healthcare, where we can effect — and, in fact, are already effecting — real, positive change for health systems worldwide.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, announced the new coalition at the recent IHI Forum 2022 in Orlando. According to the coalition's new website , Rise to Health seeks to build, change and transform healthcare.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Esterly, formerly the chief growth and strategy officer at Centria Healthcare, was hired for his deep experience and acute understanding of provider organizations, combined with his proficiency in leveraging technology to reach vulnerable populations. Here, technology and care services offer support to both patients and healthcare providers.
Cloud Blogs
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Please explain why greater data access is critical for patients and the entire healthcare industry. Jean Ross, RN: Greater data access is critical for the healthcare industry because it enables better health outcomes by including patients and their caregivers as active partners in care.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
Life Qi
JUNE 10, 2021
Coaching improvement project teams can be a really rewarding process. In your role as a Quality Improvement (QI) coach you can help spread the QI message across your organisation and enable your teams to create transformational change.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
" Dr Rohini Omkar Prasad, Digital Heath Strategist, HIMSS Junghan Song, president and CEO of SNUBH, says the pursuit of the EMRAM validation signals the hospital’s dedication to quality improvement, enhancing safety, and providing efficient healthcare while adhering to international standards. ±12.4 ±11.0
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
But they're also gaining big benefits in quality improvement, cost efficiency, and more. By Andrea Fox | August 29, 2023 News HCA working with Google Cloud on clinical generative AI The healthcare giant will expand its work with Google to help automate workflows and streamline. The process.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Reveleer, a health tech company focused on value-based care, has unveiled two new suites of solutions for risk-bearing providers. | The Prospective Risk Adjustment and Quality Improvement product suites are designed to ease providers’ administrative burden and deliver timely clinical insights at the point of care.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 17, 2023
Jonathan Malek, SVP and General Manager, Provider Business, Veradigm The last few years have emphasized the need for high-quality healthcare for patients that is accessible and affordable for all. In recent years, healthcare has undergone the same digital transformation as every other industry.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Layer Health Co-Founders Luke Murray, Monica Agrawal, Divya Gopinath, David Sontag, Steven Horng (Left to Right) What You Should Know: – Layer Health , a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst , and Inception Health.
p3care
MAY 31, 2024
Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. They aim to improve your health by ensuring that you get custom care according to your needs while cutting costs.
Life Qi
OCTOBER 24, 2023
The healthcare industry is constantly evolving, with providers facing the dual challenge of delivering high-quality care while managing costs effectively. One powerful strategy to address this challenge is the use of quality improvement projects.
Healthcare It News
MAY 20, 2022
health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. The goal of the Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety Peer Network – which offers a year-long mentorship and networking program – is to improve health outcomes for historically marginalized populations.
CDC
JUNE 7, 2023
A CDC-supported initiative at The University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) in Vietnam that used IPC quality improvement (QI) strategies to reduce CRE colonization and infection in a general intensive care unit (ICU) demonstrates the positive impact that IPC activities can have on CRE prevention.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 9, 2021
What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare , one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has begun implementing MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform across three hospitals in New Hampshire as a part of its digital transformation initiatives. HCA will go-live by the end of 2022.
Life Qi
JANUARY 17, 2023
Avedis Donabedian is our penultimate Quality Improvement (QI) hero in our series of blogs. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1919, he studied as a doctor and made his way into quality improvement, becoming a key influence and innovator in improvement in healthcare.
p3care
MAY 14, 2023
In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, providers haven’t settled for average care at any point. Rather, they are looking for opportunities to implement meaningful quality improvement activities. Are you ready to showcase your devotion to taking quality care to the next level?
Life Qi
JUNE 23, 2022
Taiichi Ohno (1912 - 1990) was a leader in industrial engineering and is well known as the creator of the Toyota Production System, which in turn inspired the Lean theory and stemmed a wide range of Quality Improvement processes.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Be part of a new day in nursing home quality improvement! We’re excited to share the latest updates on vital topics to advance quality and address your needs, such as: Clostridiodes difficile. Nursing Home Quality Improvement.
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
– A recent study has shed light on the significant potential of the ECHO Model in improving diabetes care in rural communities. Through weekly telementoring sessions, rural healthcare providers gain the knowledge and skills necessary to manage diabetes effectively, reducing the need for referrals to specialists.
Life Qi
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
In this, the final article in our series on Quality Improvement (QI) heroes – we shine a spotlight on Dr Don Berwick, leading authority on QI in healthcare and founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Cloud Blogs
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Healthcare stakeholders are moving away from fee-for-service and towards value-based models to meet the demands of aging and millennial populations while also meeting an ambitious national healthcare agenda. These shifting priorities have catalyzed the desire to track patient outcomes and cost-savings for improved quality of care.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Matthew Gitelis, CEO of PatientIQ, a health IT company deriving insights from patient-reported outcomes data, has some thoughts about healthcare information technology in 2023. And he added that healthcare organizations need to embrace the move to data-driven medicine. Healthcare organizations have their work cut out for them.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 19, 2022
The new company will be led by CEO Dave Kerwar, who has previously served as chief product officer at Mount Sinai Health System, where he developed IT-driven direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer and population health programs focused on quality improvement and cost efficiencies. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication.
CHQ Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Ongoing financial losses some healthcare organizations are suffering have prompted facilities to seek alternate ways to regroup, and recoup some of these losses. A process map is the launching pad for implementing other lean strategies according to Michelle Rhodes-Horsley, a senior Lean analyst at CHG Healthcare. Updated Sept.
Healthcare It News
DECEMBER 15, 2021
It comes as a surprise to no one that healthcare's digital landscape is fragmented and siloed with numerous point solutions. Digital transformation also is essential in making an impact on quality improvement and cost containment goals associated with value-based care initiatives." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 11, 2022
The APeX platform is designed to streamline operational and clinical workflows to achieve the boost care quality, improve patient experience and reduce administrative burdens. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com. Enterprise Taxonomy:
Life Qi
JANUARY 18, 2023
In its ‘Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit’ the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) describes driver diagrams as ‘a roadmap for achieving the overall project aim.’ Driver diagrams can be used to plan improvement project activities and represent a key element of QI projects.
Life Qi
AUGUST 4, 2022
In this article, we’re going to take a look at clinical microsystems: what they are, what they consist of, what they do and their value to healthcare, and - more specifically - their value within Quality Improvement (QI).
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