HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2024

Throughout her distinguished career, Gall has demonstrated a passion for improving healthcare quality, safety, and outcomes. Gall is recognized for her authentic and results-oriented leadership style, which has enabled her to drive positive change and make a lasting impact in the healthcare sector. “I’m

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CDC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Cardo joined CDC in 1993 as a medical epidemiologist in the Hospital Infections Program (later named the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion), and after holding several leadership positions in DHQP, she was selected as division director in 2003. Cardo is beloved

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 6, 2023

This rollout will add more than 15,000 frontline leaders across clinical and operation functions to the Laudio platform, empowering them to do the best work of their lives, all while improving retention, labor productivity, service, quality, and safety.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

The declining birth rate is especially a problem for rural hospitals, many of which aren’t meeting the required number of deliveries per year to meet safety standards. Hospitals in under-resourced areas have less to offer new doctors in terms of equipment, support, and quality of life.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 24, 2022

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.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 1, 2023

Michael Ramsay, chief executive officer of the PSMF, reflected on the role that the increasing availability of hospital data on medical errors could play in reducing harm. I’m very optimistic that we’re really going to see a difference in healthcare,” he said. We know what the outcomes are in hospitals. Technology is changing.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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. What You Should Know: – New York City-based CertifyOS raises $14.5M Provider Intelligence Platform.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For anyone 65 or older, the risk of hospitalization after getting pneumococcal pneumonia is 13 times greater than for younger adults 18 to 49, with an average hospital stay of six days. We are doing this—and healthcare is better because of it. The AEBP is available without charge to hospitals online. We can do this.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and in healthcare, we have not been measuring sustainability terribly well: A recent Health Affairs analysis described healthcare sustainability measurement as being “two decades behind efforts to improve healthcare quality through measurement.”. Do no harm.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 21, 2023

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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ACHE

MARCH 4, 2021

From the acceleration of virtual medicine to the continued push toward value-based care, the past year has brought significant changes to healthcare. He will also discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare executives undertaking these efforts in their hospitals and health systems. More and more U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

AI-enabled technology can deliver personalized treatment plans and medication regimens, leading to better adherence and outcomes while avoiding costly adjustments and hospitalizations.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2022

The vast scale of the platform enables Clarify to apply the “Moneyball-style” analytical methods that predict outcomes in baseball to healthcare, objectively assessing the performance of hospitals and clinicians, and precisely identifying the right interventions and therapies for patients.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

JULY 25, 2018

And patients dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid – who generally have more complicated and serious health conditions – had 49 percent fewer hospital visits and a 17 percent lower average-cost-per-beneficiary in MA plans. These patients, of course, account for the most significant portion of our country’s healthcare spending.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 3, 2023

This article is sponsored by HealthCare Quality Consulting. to learn about using structured orientation and continued education to drive improvement in quality, reduce turnover and reduce cost in the home health industry. She explains how this need led to the creation of the HOP Into Homecare!

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pravin has worked in the hospital & health plan industry for over 20 years, during which he has led initiatives in team building, leadership, innovation, artificial intelligence, big data, predictive analytics, and population health management.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 10, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) provides patients with the right to request a restriction on how a provider or hospital uses or discloses protected health information.

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 28, 2024

Yours, Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSC In the News In an Up First podcast feature, NPR delved into the issue of “When Hospitals Don’t Say Sorry,” pointing out the lasting damage that can happen to patients and their families who are harmed when medical errors don’t lead to an apology.

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Icanotes

JANUARY 5, 2024

Why AI Will Never Replace Therapists By October Boyles, MSN, BSN, RN | January 5, 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making remarkable strides in a number of fields, including healthcare to hospitality services. Do therapist AI tools consistently adhere to HIPAA and other healthcare quality and privacy standards?

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Health Dialog

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I told him that according to how he answered the questions, his best option was to call 911, but he said that there was a hospital two blocks away and he could make it there on his own. Going to the hospital on your own means waiting in line for triage, and you don’t want to waste time here.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It offers financial incentives to the providers (groups/hospitals/individuals) for the quality of patient care services they perform. It penalizes providers with financial disincentives if they do not meet the pre-set criteria for quality measures they are covering. Pay-for-Performance Payment Model (P4P).

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Vie Healthcare

JULY 26, 2023

27:11 What we don’t measure doesn’t matter Melissa said healthcare can’t improve unless hospitals ask caregivers about their experience. ‘’I I find that interesting because my mom in the hospital can’t clearly even remember that she broke her hip and/or femur, and yet you’re now sending her an after-patient survey.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

MAY 4, 2022

We would be remiss if we didn’t give thought to how this could affect patient access to hospitals and physicians. Hospitals are required to think about what we call payer mix. Private health insurance reimburses at a higher rate for healthcare services than Medicare and Medicaid do.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 28, 2022

Tendo Systems appoints Dr. Bala Hota, a recognized leader in healthcare quality and risk analytics as senior vice president and chief informatics officer. She will be responsible for leading Availity’s product design and management, developing innovative solutions, and launching products for the healthcare market.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Beta Healthcare is the largest professional liability insurer of hospitals on the West Coast, providing coverage to more than 600 hospitals and healthcare facilities. On September 11, the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) had its virtual meeting where it reviewed quality and safety of healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 1, 2023

It becomes your single source of truth for financial and performance reporting, provides consistency and standardization and can improve overall healthcare quality. Savista is a provider of healthcare revenue cycle management services, partnering with hospitals, systems, and physician practices for more than 30 years.

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This episode is sponsored by VIE Healthcare Consulting ® which has proudly helped hospitals. In this episode you’ll hear: A singular definition of the patient experience, and how to ensure people have a positive and lasting relationship with your hospital. You can learn more about VIE Healthcare at viehealthcare.com.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

To effectively achieve this, a digital solution must improve the quality of care in an end-to-end fashion across all phases of care: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care management. This comprehensive approach is necessary, since improving healthcare quality at every phase drives better outcomes and downstream savings.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It will assist healthcare personnel to prevent infections more effectively in healthcare settings, support rapid response to detect and contain infectious organisms, enhance laboratory capacity, and engage in innovation targeted at combating infectious disease threats. Over the next 3 years, CDC will issue $1.25

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The unavailability of physical data from Medicare and Medicaid through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services jeopardizes the accountability of the entire healthcare system in the US through research that needs to be rigorous, reproducible, and conducted with academic freedom.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2023

Start with health care quality, which 58% of U.S. The percent of health consumers evaluating their healthcare quality as very good or good fell to 41% of people in June 2023, an erosion of 17 percentage points, shown in the first chart. Among all the healthcare issues most important to the U.S.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have brutal wars going on where schools and hospitals are destroyed and used to protect combatants. Patients, children, and healthcare workers are killed and injured. Then we come to the high rates of avoidable harm and mortality in our hospitals. No patient should be found “dead in bed”!

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