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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

“It’s very hard to capture patient safety with the surveillance methods we currently have,” he said. “CMS is committed to ensuring safety and quality of care for hospital patients through a variety of initiatives,” CMS said. Both it and Cedars-Sinai touted their five-star ratings.

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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

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WHO THEY ARE Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi is part of the Principle Healthcare Group, a local operator of private hospitals. The 200-bed hospital in metropolitan Bangkok provides outpatient and inpatient services and specialty care. " Enterprise Taxonomy: EHR Quality Care EMRAM Core Technologies Care Maturity Models

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Health Care Paradox: Medicare Penalizes Dozens of Hospitals It Also Gives Five Stars

KHN

One problem, he added, is “you’re kind of asking hospitals to call out events that are going to have them lose money, so the incentives are really messed up for hospitals to fully disclose” patient injuries. ” In allotting the penalties, CMS evaluated 3,124 general acute hospitals.

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Ransomware stakes are life-or-death, says Ponemon report

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"Armed with the elevated case rates and hospitalizations of the pandemic as a baseline, we were able to lean in and try to study this national experiment of protracted service disruption in hospitals," he said. That's up from 36% in 2021. "The team asked, can cyber [attacks] make it worse? And the answer is yes."

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Unleashing the Potential of Implementation Science to Prevent Harm in Healthcare

Patient Safety Movement

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event. They are just not being used.

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Unleashing the Potential of Implementation Science to Prevent Harm in Healthcare

Patient Safety Movement

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. Assessing 11 Massachusetts hospitals, it found that nearly one in four patients admitted experienced an adverse event. They are just not being used.

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Letter from CEO The last two months have seen some profound presentations, publications, and recommendations to improve patient safety in the US and globally. We have had a Summit meeting in Newport Beach with so many passionate world-renowned speakers on patient safety.