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).

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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.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Arming providers with a longitudinal patient summary for conducting comprehensive risk assessments improves patient outcomes while lowering the cost of care. Equipping providers to assess member risk, increase diagnosis accuracy, and close care gaps takes risk adjustment and quality improvement to a new level.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Current barriers to patient access and quality improvement. This is especially true for underserved populations, who already face more financial, educational, and environmental barriers to quality care. Advancing care quality initiatives through bi-directional data collection.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

So as well as needing the knowledge of Quality Improvement we also need the consequent skills of understanding implementation science and as important as ever, the intricacies of ergonomics and human factors and the science of behaviour when under stress.

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Sheppard Health Law

JANUARY 5, 2022

First, issuers may only count provider incentive and bonus payments as claims expense if they are “tied to clearly defined, objectively measurable, and well-documented clinical or quality improvement standards.” Second, issuers only may count expenditures directly related to activities that improve healthcare quality.

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