by Kristine Bryant | Feb 27, 2018 | Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
In December of last year, the federal government penalized 751 hospitals for having high numbers of patient injuries, retroactively reducing their Medicare payments by 1% for each patient’s stay, as well as reducing the amount of money the hospitals receive to...
by Kristine Bryant | Nov 27, 2017 | Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
In a recent blog post, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality shed some light on an area of concern for many hospitals: the prioritization of data collection within their QAPI program. Hospitals are constantly working to monitor, report on and improve...
by Kristine Bryant | Nov 16, 2017 | Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
We frequently describe ActionCue Clinical Intelligence as redefining and facilitating the management process for quality-safety improvement. Understanding that taking on quality-safety improvement can bring some apprehension, we want to make clear that we do this to...
by Kristine Bryant | Nov 7, 2017 | Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
For decades, I practiced and taught others a model of developing new software products in which the creator begins with at least two innovation concepts before thinking about technology choices, features or even architecture. These concepts must represent a new way to...
by Kristine Bryant | Sep 14, 2017 | Action Series, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
In a recent webinar for our ActionCue clients, Prista’s panel of experts answered questions about healthcare innovation and the role of leadership in creating action that improves patient safety and quality. We covered nine of these questions in previous posts—Part...
by Kristine Bryant | Sep 7, 2017 | Action Series, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Quality, Helping Hospital CEOs, Patient Safety
In a recent webinar for our ActionCue clients, Prista’s panel of experts answered questions about healthcare innovation and the role of leadership in creating action that improves patient safety and quality. We covered six of these questions in previous posts—Part 1...
