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

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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.

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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.

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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 (..)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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. THE LARGER TREND.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

For healthcare organizations, that means a constant barrage of possibilities for new and better technology. Yet, when viewed through the lens of improving patient outcomes, data integration rises to the top of the priority list.

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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

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.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 18, 2024

What You Should Know: – Medicus IT , a leading national provider of healthcare technology solutions and managed services, has announced the acquisition of BlueNovo. By combining their expertise and resources, both companies can work towards improving healthcare quality and accessibility for underserved communities nationwide.

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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.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2024

Common obstacles include changing regulations and policies, trouble collecting and reporting patient information, such as care gaps, unpredictable revenue, complex financial risk, lack of resources to implement and manage VBC programs, and interoperability gaps within and outside the organization, according to a Definitive Healthcare survey.

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Life Qi

MARCH 14, 2023

In this article we’re going to take a look at how you might implement Statistical Process Control (SPC), and how you can use this methodology within your Quality Improvement (QI) projects.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ujjwal Ramtekkar, Chief Medical Officer at LifeStance Health What You Should Know: – LifeStance Health , a provider of virtual and in-person outpatient mental healthcare, announced today the appointment of Dr. Ujjwal Ramtekkar as its new Chief Medical Officer, effective January 22, 2024. ”

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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.

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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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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.

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Life Qi

AUGUST 10, 2021

The NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub’s document 'The spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in Healthcare,' states that ‘Across the UK, a third of healthcare improvement projects never spread beyond their particular unit, a further third are embedded within their own unit and spread across an organisation, and a final third are spread (..)

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