Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 25, 2023

At June’s World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, our CEO Dr. Michael Ramsay shared an optimistic perspective about the progress which can be made in patient safety in the next five years through data transparency and evidence-based medicine. “I The current structure fails patients on a colossal scale.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Despite an unwavering commitment to well-being and safety, these facilities are overwhelmed by a growing number of priorities and hampered by a shrinking labor force – which hamstrings their ability to implement a plan for success. The time for change is now.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

"Unless the Senate acts, we will be forced to go backward to pre-pandemic policies that ignore the innovative telehealth approaches that improve both patient safety and health equity."

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tom Wriggins, Principal Industry Advisor at SAS John Maynard, CPA, CFE, AHFI Principal Solutions Architect at SAS In 2022, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established health equity as a pillar of its future work. Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

“It’s very hard to capture patient safety with the surveillance methods we currently have,” he said. The Cleveland Clinic said that its satellite hospital in Avon has received awards from private groups, such as an “A” grade for patient safety from the nonprofit Leapfrog Group.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

and Jonathan Blum, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – names you may recognize from CMS National Stakeholder Calls. Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. Protecting patients must always remain our first priority. The authors are Lee Fleisher, MD.,

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Joe’s passion for patient safety has been a driving force behind breakthrough developments in medical innovation at the company he founded, Masimo. CHAIRMAN’S LETTER Dear Friends and Colleagues, Last month, we recognised 2022 World Patient Safety Day.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This approach helps reduce findings, improves patient safety, and supports sustainable performance improvement. The rules of unannounced visits from regulatory bodies have been significantly tightened by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) making it crucial for healthcare facilities to be constantly prepared.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

"Throughout the process, the digital care management approach captures holistic, contextual data, creating a more meaningful, measurable and even predictive view for better patient care and outcomes," he added. Another aspect of this approach is reimbursement. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

New action will protect patients of the 50,000 providers and over 17 million health care workers in Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities. There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to require COVID-19 vaccinations for “most health care settings that receive Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement, including but not limited to hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical settings and home health agencies.”. The plan also mobilizes the U.S.

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p3care

MAY 1, 2023

Electronic health records (EHRs) with encryption and access limits, Monitoring and auditing access to patient information, and confirmation of the veracity of patient and provider identities, etc. Detecting Fraudulent Medical Billing Services Healthcare fraud has negative effects on patient safety and the treatment standard as a whole.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Instead, surveyors should investigate further to determine whether the failure could have been the result of something more basic to safe patient care, such as insufficient monitoring and/or patient assessment and evaluation. Reducing these common deficiencies increases the quality of care for people with Medicare and Medicaid.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 24, 2022

The suite of tools in the EHR-integrated eGMS platform guides pharmacists and other healthcare providers to achieve best practice care by providing personalized treatment recommendations, identifying and alerting of patients in glycemic disarray, and providing guardrails that enhance patient safety.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Longo : There are nearly 11,000 home health agencies that report data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. I’d like to point out that accreditation is regarded as a well-established mechanism for promoting quality and patient safety in health care. The data are publicly available and include the CMS star ratings.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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. It said Davis ranked 38th out of 101 academic medical centers that use a private quality measurement system.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicaid reimbursement, which comprises the largest share of nursing home reimbursement, has not kept pace, resulting in SNFs and medical providers assuming the burden of those costs. . It has not made our facilities safer places to care for residents and patients. We have had groups of surveyors descending on facilities for 50 years.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 23, 2022

“The need for interoperability across the care continuum has only accelerated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted how important timely data sharing is for clinical decision support, patient care, patient safety monitoring and public health reporting,” NAHC said. Specifically, Congress should direct the U.S.

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Sheppard Health Law

AUGUST 11, 2022

The FQHC served predominantly low-income individuals [3] including Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and offered telehealth services to its patients through a telehealth application, which could be downloaded onto a smartphone. . The Arrangement.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 2, 2022

However, prior to issuing the guidance, the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) was declared, and CMS immediately redirected resources to address patient safety needs related to the PHE. This is the opening statement for brief of the OIG Report published July 26, 2022. “(OIG)

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 8, 2021

My forthcoming article proposes that the federal government use its spending power to incentivize states to adopt a de facto national telehealth licensing scheme through state-based mutual recognition of licensing and scope of practice reforms through a Medicaid program funding “bonus.”.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

States such as Texas, Wyoming , and New Jersey are adopting Medicaid reimbursement of collaborative care services and are addressing capacity to transition to CoCM. Integration of Substance Use Services and Supports States can align long siloed approaches to primary care, mental health, and substance use services through integration efforts.

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Healthcare Leadership Council

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Unfortunately, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing a policy change that would assign more “busy work” to key players across the health sector. Under existing rules, the manufacturer would have to offer the highest discount of the three — 30% — to Medicaid.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

Addressing patient harm and promoting patient safety takes on added urgency in light of the ongoing pandemic and its effects on hospital operations,” the report continued. Other studies have suggested hospital-at-home patients recover quicker and have a lower risk of outside infection due to a more controlled environment.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It was established with the goal of improving the quality of health care services and patient safety through accreditation and certification programs. ACHC is recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a deeming authority for home health and hospice.

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Briggs Healthcare

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Biden-Harris Administration is requiring COVID-19 vaccination of eligible staff at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The regulation will create a consistent standard within Medicare and Medicaid while giving patients assurance of the vaccination status of those delivering care.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

New action will protect patients of the 50,000 providers and over 17 million health care workers in Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities. There is no question that staff, across any health care setting, who remain unvaccinated pose both direct and indirect threats to patient safety and population health.

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CAPS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

CAPS provided Patient and Family Engagement technical support to the Hospital Engagement Networks (2012-2015) and Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (2015-2020) programs and the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (2015-2019).

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

This is a great example of what AHRQ does: create programs that make it simple to put evidence into practice—thus promoting patient safety and improving patients’ lives.”. Antibiotic prescriptions are common in long-term care facilities, yet up to 75 percent of them are considered inappropriate or not following guidelines.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 31, 2022

The company’s revenue is mostly from government payers like Medicaid, which is different from many of the bigger home care companies that rely primarily on private-pay clients. We want to be that true destination where people really want to come to work and make a difference.”. Empath Health beefs up legal team.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2023

The FY 2024 budget affords $150 billion over 10 years in improving and strengthening Medicaid home and community-based services to ensure more people who are aging and those with disabilities can receive care in their home or community. There’s a lot of very important items on this budget!

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Meditech

JANUARY 18, 2022

At Ozarks Healthcare , we serve a community where 23% of the population lives below poverty level, and many residents are uninsured or on Medicaid/Medicare without supplemental insurance. Not because of treatment issues, but because of care inequality issues.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a multi-faceted approach aimed at determining the minimum level and type of staffing needed to enable safe and quality care in nursing homes. Evidence has shown that adequate staffing is closely linked to the quality of care residents receive. [2]

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 6, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Surveyor workforce – the federal inspectors of the long-term care industry – should be adequately funded, and the surveyors themselves properly trained in identifying infections. With more than 15,000 members, APIC advances the science and practice of infection prevention and control.

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NASHP

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ensuring adequate Medicaid coverage and payment for SUD and mental health related services: Medicaid covers more than 40 percent of births in the United States and covers approximately 65.9 To ensure Medicaid coverage and adequate reimbursement, many MMRCs commonly recommend three strategies as outlined below.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

Traditional fee for service, accountable care, concierge service, HMOs, cash-only vs. private insurance-only vs. Medicaid/Medicare—all produce different incentives and behaviors because the compensation model impacts how your product/service gets paid for and by whom.

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