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National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare This Patient Safety Chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR).

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5 stories to celebrate National Healthcare Quality Week

Meditech

Recognize National Healthcare Quality Week 2021 by learning more about how technology is helping healthcare professionals to make a positive impact on their communities.

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COVID-19 Healthcare Quality and Worker Safety Information

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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Cultivating an Early Warning System in Healthcare Quality Through Bi-Directional Patient-Physician Engagement 

HIT Consultant

Patient advocacy organizations and medical specialty societies can serve as a liaison between patients and providers in bi-directional engagement, closing gaps in the patient journey and ultimately driving innovation for higher quality care. David Voccola, Sr.

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Health Equity: A Central Tenet in Health Care Quality

Turner Healthcare Quality

It’s Personal and Professional for THCQ Consulting…and Should Be for All of Us

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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast…in Healthcare Too

Turner Healthcare Quality

How might a dramatic shift in the culture of health care in the United States make us better off

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A Tale of Two Job Functions

Turner Healthcare Quality

The New Form of Quality as a Core Competency in Pharma

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In Pursuit of Patient-Centeredness

Turner Healthcare Quality

Can Life Science Companies Play a Role

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The Million Dollar Question that Led to THCQ Consulting

Turner Healthcare Quality

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, was signed into law in March of 2010 and has become the fabric of the healthcare system over the past decade.

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Basics of Health Care Quality: The Metrics of Quality

Turner Healthcare Quality

Measuring What Matters

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Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Program: A Best Practice Model

Turner Healthcare Quality

Bringing Hope and Recovery to a High-Need, Vulnerable Population

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COVID-19 Therapies: Time is of the Essence and Knowledge is Power

Turner Healthcare Quality

Prologue

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“Time to Fix the Roof is While the Sun is Shining”

Turner Healthcare Quality

Exactly one week ago, in communities across the United States, people were participating in mass gatherings of all types without much of a thought. However, once NBA players and iconic names like Tom Hanks and his wife

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The Big “Picture” of Health Care Quality in the U.S.

Turner Healthcare Quality

Metaphorically Speaking: Health Care Quality and Puzzles

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Infection control reminders during this challenging respiratory virus season

CDC

Carlson, MD, MPH, Physician, Project Firstline, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC With assistance from Mia Frederick (contractor, TANAQ) a writer for CDC’s Project Firstline in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Abigail L.

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Don Berwick

Life Qi

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).

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CDC Launches Blog Series on Patient Safety

CDC

While many would agree this is accurate, we should take it a step further and define it as “a discipline and a responsibility in the healthcare sector.”

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When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: PPE Fit and Equity in Health Care

CDC

Mia Frederick (contractor, TANAQ) is a writer for CDC’s Project Firstline in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Infection control, including the appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is an essential part of healthcare worker and patient safety.

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Protecting Patients Through Healthcare Resiliency

CDC

Patients and healthcare providers have come to embrace that it is no longer acceptable to view an HAI. Healthcare-associated infections

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CDC Investing in the Next Generation of Prevention and Response in States

CDC

Denise Cardo, MD Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The past two years have been an extraordinary time for the U.S. healthcare system and public health.

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Implementation and Use of Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. Featured Presenters: Abimbola (Bola) Ogundimu, DrPH, RN, CIC, CPHQ; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC. Heather Jones, DNP, NP-C; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC. Moderator: Kara Jacobs Slifka, MD, MPH; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC. You are invited to a webinar discussing Enhanced Barrier Precautions in nursing homes.

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4 Things to Consider before Adopting Health IT Innovation

p3care

With MIPS 2020 just around the corner, eligible clinicians are ready to submit quality data to CMS in order to improve their financial situation. We all are rooting for quality healthcare services, and technology incorporation is an efficient way to achieve this goal.

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MedPAC Comments: FY2023 SNF PPS Proposed Rule

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. As you know, today (June 10, 2022) is the deadline for stakeholders to submit comments on the FY2023 SNF PPS Proposed Rule. Lots of stakeholders have already provided comment (over 3,000 as of yesterday) and the window is open until 5pm ET today. In case you’re curious about MedPAC’ s thoughts/comments, read their letter here. The letter is 12 pages in length and worth the read.

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare It News

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.

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Protecting Patients Through Healthcare Resiliency

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. The strategies outlined identify actions that are needed around the world to strengthen the healthcare system as a whole, so that there is a resilient system ready to address and stop the next threat when it arrives.

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What is P4P? How It Is Affecting Healthcare Overall?

p3care

The US government has shown its concerns about healthcare delivery since the beginning. They want to make quality care accessible for every individual. Moreover, the government has supported every single effort to minimize the healthcare cost for all. The Affordable Care Act (2010) is one milestone in healthcare laws that exactly include all these motives. Likewise, Pay-for-Performance (P4P) is a national healthcare strategy galvanized by ACA.

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Next-Level Tips for Improving Care Team Communication with Patients

Medical GPS

Medical staff communication is essential for providing quality care, reducing errors, increasing patient satisfaction, improving service recovery, and establishing strong patient relationships. Often healthcare professionals forget patients are not fluent in the medical language.

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Hospital finances in 2022: Outlook is grim

Healthcare ECONOMIST

A report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform (Miller 2020) found that many rural hospitals are in financials straights. Based on some recent reports, hospital finances in 2022 look poor.

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New Strategic Partnership Helps Hospitals Deploy Epic EHR to AWS Cloud

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cloudticity and Sapphire Health announced a strategic partnership to help hospitals and healthcare providers that use Epic EHR to undergo a seamless transition into the AWS Cloud.

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CDC COCA Call Today: What Clinicians Need to Know About Monkeypox + CDC Advisory 

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. David Kuhar, MD Director, Office of Healthcare Worker Safety Lead, Hospital Infection Prevention Team Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. OVERVIEW.

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Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems, Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. On April 18, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (CMS-1771-P) that provides updates to the fiscal year (FY) 2023 Long-Term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program (LTCH QRP).

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Cybersecurity for the Clinician

Briggs Healthcare

It is increasingly understood that threats to healthcare cybersecurity present a shared challenge and therefore a shared responsibility, including among those whose principal responsibility is patient care and healthcare quality.

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Explore Leadership Insights at the 2021 Congress, Part 2

ACHE

One of the many important lessons for healthcare leaders to take away from 2020 is that leader-to-leader communication and collaboration can help individuals and organizations thrive, even in the most challenging of circumstances. Congress on Healthcare Leadership Leadership

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Epic Integrates with Milliman MedInsight for its Value-Based Performance Management Module

HIT Consultant

– Epic customers will be able to leverage the unparalleled expertise of two leading healthcare technology companies to build the foundation for population health improvement strategies.

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System for Federal Fiscal Year 2023 and Updates to the IRF Quality Reporting Program

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. difficile) Infection Outcome Measure in the IRF QRP – Request for Information (RFI) Overarching Principles for Measuring Equity and Healthcare Quality Disparities Across CMS Quality Programs – Request for Information (RFI).

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Reimagine a new era of healthcare at Microsoft Ignite 2021 and beyond

Cloud Blogs

In this dynamic healthcare era, there's no more "business as usual." The way healthcare organizations will work, engage with patients and support community health will never be the same, and it may feel like there's no roadmap for what's ahead.

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Americans Deserve the Full Truth About Medicare-For-All and its Ramifications for their Healthcare

Healthcare Leadership Council

It’s important, though, to fully understand what such a drastic change to our healthcare system would mean for patients and the care on which they depend. We welcome Barclay Berdan, the chief executive officer of Texas Health Resources, a faith-based non-profit healthcare system, to share his expertise on the subject. Americans Deserve the Full Truth About Medicare-For-All and its Ramifications for their Healthcare. million healthcare workers.

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The Common Denominators of Sustainability in Healthcare: Measurement and Transparency

HIT Consultant

Michael Byczkowski, Global VP, Head of Healthcare Industry at SAP. The global healthcare industry accounts for roughly 5% of greenhouse gas emissions. carbon emissions emerge from healthcare. Healthcare leaders recognize this. Major healthcare players are taking action.

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CertifyOS Secures $14.5M for Frictionless Provider Intelligence

HIT Consultant

in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and has received Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving healthcare quality.

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Biometrics as the Next Frontier of Authentication in Healthcare

HIT Consultant

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, more healthcare consumers than ever before have begun to engage digitally with their healthcare providers rather than seek in-person treatment and care options. Not surprisingly, these same concerns are often voiced by healthcare consumers.

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Clarify Health Secures $150M for Value-Based Payments Platform

HIT Consultant

– This newest round of funding comes on the heels of the company’s Series C funding in 2021 and two recent strategic acquisitions— Apervita’s Value Optimization Business and Embedded Healthcare —all driving expansion of the company’s value-based payments platform.

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Quantifying the Medicare Advantage advantage

Healthcare Leadership Council

These patients, of course, account for the most significant portion of our country’s healthcare spending.

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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices

HIT Consultant

Sorting through masses of healthcare and related data to find the gaps, patterns and common contributors to health problems is in many ways the perfect job for the sheer computational power of AI. David J. Sand, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer of ZeOmega .