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Why take an ICS approach to quality improvement

Life Qi

In earlier articles in this series of blogs, we have looked at how Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are being created to provide partnerships of health and care. We also discovered how they will plan and deliver joined up services to improve the health of people in their localities.

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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

Without all of the teams involved in clinical care working as one team to quickly identify problems, find evidence-based practices, run tests of change, study results, and identify and disseminate improvements, progress will be spotty at best.

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Unlocking Medical Device Potential: Data Integration Drives Better Patient Outcomes

HIT Consultant

Yet, when viewed through the lens of improving patient outcomes, data integration rises to the top of the priority list. Well-integrated data benefits the entire care journey, from care access and delivery to coding, billing and payment to ongoing quality improvement.

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Epic & Press Ganey Integrate to Streamline Nursing Quality Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ).

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Improving Communication From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility Through Standardized Hand-Off: A Quality Improvement Project

Patient Safety

Methods: Lewin’s change management theory (CMT) guided this quality improvement (QI) project. Conclusion: The use of standardized hand-off resulted in improved communication during the hospital-to-SNF hand-off and significantly decreased the wait time for the availability of prescriptions for controlled medications and IV antibiotics.

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Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

Health Care Leader News

The Fuller Report published earlier this year signalled that Primary Care Networks (PCNs) should ‘evolve’ into Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs). The post Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams appeared first on Healthcare Leader. What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change?

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The cornerstone of continuous, integrated, and value-based healthcare

Cloud Blogs

Intentions matter, and our platform was built with the realization that when solutions are designed to deliver personalized and integrated experiences to patients, they have the potential to increase provider productivity, engage patients and caregivers, enhance quality, improve affordability, and expand access to care.