HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. Hospitals and health systems have long understood the need to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, yet despite a renewed sense of urgency, many of them lack comprehensive glycemic management measures that can drive success.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 11, 2023

Public reporting of hospital quality of care could improve the care patients receive through at least two pathways. First, patients (or their physicians) could send patients to higher quality hospitals (i.e., 2012 ) and improvement has been very slow. 2012 ) and improvement has been very slow.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2022

US hospital systems validate the safety, clinical utility, and robustness of newly FDA-approved devices, 510(k) cleared, before adopting them into clinical practice. This work occurs alongside evaluating how to integrate the medical device into the hospital system’s diagnostic paradigms, including in relation to quality improvement programs.

Hospitals 98

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 15, 2024

What You Should Know: – WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Regard today announced a 3-year enterprise agreement to deploy Regard’s AI clinical automation tool to the system’s 3 acute care hospitals by the end of 2024. Regard’s technology employs AI and proprietary algorithms to generate valuable clinical insights.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

Digital patient pathways had been deployed in over 20 speciality areas and at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and SA Dental. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

As the financial markets turned south, many institutions saw their investment income stagnate, reducing the support it historically provided to hospitals’ thin operating margins. Worst of all, the predicted rebound in procedure volumes as the pandemic waned never materialized. Michael Meucci, CEO of Arcadia. Adam McMullin, CEO of AvaSure.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

JANUARY 14, 2022

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Background: Delirium can occur in cancer patients during an acute hospitalization or in the terminal stages of cancer. Iatrogenic delirium can complicate hospital stays for over 2.6 The percentage of inpatient falls that were linked to an episode of delirium during hospitalization reduced from 23.4%

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Mate also cited examples of how quality improvement methods can address inequalities. Other founding members of the coalition include The Groundwater Institute, the American Hospital Association, the National Association of Community Health Centers, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, Health Begins and PolicyLink.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In December, the program went live at the South Australian Medical Imaging (SAMI) Nuclear Medicine Theranostics Service of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH) in Adelaide. The service's previous digital survey solution relied on patients to complete the survey while in the clinic waiting room using a hospital-supplied device.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

The American Medical Association this week, along with Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Joint Commission, announced the launch of a new learning network to help U.S. health systems approach their quality improvement and patient safety practices with health equity top of mind. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

2023 , the answer is ‘no’ The authors use data from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Data, Hospital Cost Reporting Information System Data, Office of Pharmacy Affairs Information System Data, and American Hospital Association Annual Survey for 15 states between 2008 to 2014.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

Intermountain Health brings its expertise in clinical quality improvement, patient-centered care, and healthcare delivery. Focus on Preventing Hospitalizations Intermountain Health’s primary goal for this partnership is to improve patient health outcomes by preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.

Primary Care 72

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

Medicare 52

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p3care

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Overall, the new MIPS inventory has 106 improvement activities that have not been finalized yet. The title for this new IA is ‘“Practice-Wide Quality Improvement in MVPs’. Meanwhile, CMS has permanently removed 3 improvement activities, whereas 1 got a modification. CMS has a strategic reason behind this modification.

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Patient Safety

MARCH 17, 2022

A review of the highest- acuity emergency airway calls at our university hospital revealed that well over 20% of the emergencies that triggered these activations were in patients with existing tracheostomy tubes. Our experience with tracheostomy-related quality improvement (QI) efforts led us to reach out to the Patient Safety Authority.

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CHQ Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Applying some of these basic quality improvement strategies from the Lean methodology can help you identify and eliminate waste and standardize your processes to increase efficiency, lower costs, and improve employee job satisfaction. Voice of the Customer. But there’s no better time to begin making changes than right now. “It

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 17, 2023

It provides guidance for implementing the training modules using a quality improvement (QI) approach. This guide offers ideas and suggestions for overcoming challenges in getting staff to take the modules and for putting the recommended improvement strategies into practice smoothly. Start by viewing the training modules.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The APeX platform is designed to streamline operational and clinical workflows to achieve the boost care quality, improve patient experience and reduce administrative burdens. In MarinHealth provider settings, clinicians can gain access to more complete patient records, helping them to make better diagnoses and treatment decisions.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simplifying Quality Reporting, Enhancing Care: The ABG platform, renowned for its user-friendly interface, simplifies complex quality reporting requirements, particularly for the MIPS program. Customizable QI bonus plans: Allowing practices to incentivize quality initiatives.

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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 | July 13, 2023 News The new nursing challenge: Adapting to AI-enabled workflows for quality improvement Jung In Park, a professor at the University of California Irvine’s School of Nursing and a. The process.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

"Other key performance indicators, such as length of stay, readmissions and patient safety, will give UConn Health insight into macro trends at the procedural, clinician, facility and population levels for ongoing quality improvement," Moss said. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

The program is the process by which a home-based care provider measures its quality metrics. If a provider knows they need to focus on reducing acute-care hospitalizations, for instance, QAPI can help them do so. Striving to create a culture of quality is an important goal for home health organizations.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Well-integrated data benefits the entire care journey, from care access and delivery to coding, billing and payment to ongoing quality improvement. Data feeds ongoing quality improvement Having access to a wealth of integrated data for analytics supports ongoing quality improvement as well as research.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 24, 2023

Chiefy represents a low-cost, low-risk opportunity for hospitals and health systems to quickly implement and scale a secure, compliant collaboration platform to engage clinicians and improve care quality. We believe that quality, efficiency, and clinician experience can be a win-win-win. ”

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Notably, gaps in care are especially prevalent when patients are being discharged from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and going back into the home, a new report from the United Hospital Fund (UHF) found. And there has been some improvement.”. I definitely think that things are getting better,” Guzik said. “As

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

Assess Quality: Evaluate performance on over 600 measures, including 250+ nursing-sensitive indicators like falls, pressure injuries, and hospital-acquired infections. This will: Save Time: Nursing leaders can spend less time on manual reporting and more time focusing on quality improvement initiatives.

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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. 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

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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HIT Consultant

JUNE 27, 2023

In a concentrated effort to combat rising levels of burnout and retain physicians, hospitals have turned towards HR departments to offer competitive benefits to boost hiring and allocate resources. In other cases, hospitals turn to travel nurses to alleviate understaffing, improve workflows, and reduce time spent on inefficient tasks.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 9, 2023

During the virtual conference, which attracted 10,000 attendees, CMS released a National Quality Strategy (NQS) handout , which outlines the goals and objectives, and actions taken within the NQS’s four priority areas: equity and engagement; outcomes and alignment; safety and resiliency, and interoperability and scientific advancement.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2023

Healthcare decision-makers must identify the solutions that address today’s most crucial needs — variability in care, budgets (and clinicians) stretched too thin, and slow, reactive, outdated quality improvement methodologies — while recognizing the difference between legitimate concern and unfounded panic.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Effective October 4, 2022, a report retention time period will be applied to user-requested or auto-generated Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) reports in the internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES). Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 12, 2023

These demographic data include such items as the provider name, provider-mailing address, provider physical address, State, ZIP Code, etc. Additionally, these same demographic data are displayed on the public reporting websites such as the Provider Data Catalog (PDC).

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bill Christy, SVP and Managing Director of Provider Data Management Solutions at symplr As healthcare costs continue to rise and workforce shortages reach a critical level, hospitals and health systems must rethink their tech stacks and processes to find success in 2024 and beyond.

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