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Joint letter from AHA and six other national hospital associations to HHS affirming hospital and health system commitment to interoperability, while stating that Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation are not an appropriate vehicle to achieve interoperability.
Hospitals and health systems have made great strides to improve quality of care. Public policies need to be revised to promote – not impede – continuous improvement.
Hospitals and health systems use quality measurement, quality improvement (QI) and adoption of hospital field standards and best practices to continuously improve patient care. Public policies around quality — especially the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) quality reporting and…
Plaintiffs essentially allege that they have a statutory entitlement to a government-funded windfall with every drug purchase they make through the 340B Program, and that the Secretary erred by decreasing the amount of the windfall in the final 2018 OPPS Rule. See, e.g., Plaintiffs' Reply in…
The American Hospital Association submits comments on how the Federal Communications Commission can encourage health care provider participation in its Connected Care Pilot Program.
Geisinger Health System – Danville, Penn.
Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients Drives Process Improvement
In 2015, Geisinger Health System piloted a patient refund program to encourage criticism, inviting patients to alert staff of areas they could improve. A year later, the program expanded to all 10…
HCA Healthcare (HCA) consists of 178 hospitals and 1,800 sites of care located in 20 states and the United Kingdom. HCA had three different EHRs (Meditech Magic, Meditech 6.0, and Epic) and tremendous variation in documentation content. HCA’s council of 14 regional Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs)…
Avera Health, an integrated health system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., serves a rural population of nearly 1 million residents across South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and North Dakota. Fueled by seeing physician colleagues develop burnout, Avera’s chief medical officer (CMO) and the employee…