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Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviation—mix in specialized safety training for all hospital staff, use common-cause and root-cause analyses and enhance with lessons and stories from front-line staff—then combine all to…
This webinar showcases the transformational journey of St. Charles Health System in Bend, Ore., as it pursues the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim of simultaneously improving the health of the population, enhancing the patient experience and outcomes and reducing per capita cost of…
Amicus Brief in Support of Appellants' Petition for Rehearing by the American Hospital Association, Kentucky Hospital Association, Kentucky Medical Association, , Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Individual Kentucky Hospitals
In conjunction with Health Services Research, this webinar showcases health IT developments in the U.S. health care field and the impact it has had on health care quality, efficiency and patient safety.
InteroperabilityInteroperability includes the exchange and use of information within a health care organization and across organizations. Barriers to interoperability must be addressed in order to support health information exchange. The multiple payment and delivery transformation initiatives…
Electronic Clinical Quality MeasuresEHR-based automated quality measure reporting has the potential, if implemented correctly, to ease the burden of quality reporting, while increasing access to real-time information to support quality improvement. To do so, the clinical quality measures (eCQMs)…
Electronic Clinical Quality MeasuresEHR-based automated quality measure reporting has the potential, if implemented correctly, to ease the burden of quality reporting, while increasing access to real-time information to support quality improvement. To do so, the clinical quality measures (eCQMs)…
On July 28, 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule defining “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs).
“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” says Wayne Boatwright, vice president, cultural diversity, Meridian Health, Neptune, N.J.
The AHA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and American Medical Association today filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that greatly expands the reach of the False Claims Act…