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This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results.
The Most Wired survey helps hospitals and health systems measure their progress in the implementation and use of information technology, and benchmark themselves against other organizations. The survey measures…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Aug. 1 placed on display its fiscal year 2013 final rule for the inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital PPS.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its fiscal year (FY) 2013 final rule for the hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment systems (PPS) on Aug. 1.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the July 13 Federal Register published its calendar year 2013 proposed rule for the home health prospective payment system.
The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps dialysis centers minimize peritonitis and exit site infections in pediatric peritoneal dialysis patients. This program allows participating centers to meet Medicare's Quality Assessment and…
This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology unit. Participants in this initiative learn how to reliably implement 'best practice' bundles to reduce CLABSI, collect monthly data, and attend two workshops each year while receiving transparent…
The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining forces to improve care and outcomes for high impact clinical issues.Participating hospitals are achieving improvements at lower cost, more efficiently and faster than any single hospital can…
On July 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its Medicare physician fee schedule proposed rule for calendar year 2013.
On July 6, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) proposed rule for calendar year 2013.
On July 10, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule implementing a 2007 statutory requirement to establish a unique device identification system for medical devices.