Quality & Patient Safety
As American health care continues to transform, hospitals and health systems are leading the way forward, fueling innovation and delivering greater value to patients, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote today in an advertorial in the Wall Street Journal.
Hospital mergers enhance quality for patients and reduce costs, according to a Charles River Associates study released today.
A recent New York Times column relies on several seriously flawed studies to make extremely broad claims about the care hospitals and health systems provide and the role they play in their communities.
In a move to speed the progress of medical research and help translate those advances into areas like cancer diagnostics, medical imaging, precision medicine and voice-enabled technologies, the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance is teaming with Amazon Web Services on a machine learning partnership.
Hospitals can review their scores for the fiscal year 2020 Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program at the QualityNet secure portal.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) July 31 issued a final rule for the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS) for fiscal year (FY) 2020.
AHA Take:
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 29 released the calendar year 2020 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.
Eliminating unnecessary medical tests and procedures can be as important in delivering high-quality care as providing the right interventions. On this AHA Advancing Health Podcast, we speak with Pamela Johnson, vice chair of quality safety and value for the department of radiology at John Hopkins…
HHS will bring together key health care stakeholders and government leaders to discuss how current quality programs can deliver better outcomes for patients.
AHA comments on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed guidance on ligature risk.