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Want happy patients? It starts with happy hospital staff.
Engage your staff and be 'amazed' at what follows. Historically, hospitals have adopted a patient-centric mission. But Beryl Companies CEO Paul...
Readmissions Are Gonna Cost You.
The converse side of saving money from the implementation of performance improvement, incident reporting systems, and a culture of quality, is...
Come See Us at the 2014 TAHQ Annual Conference
That's right, Prista is attending another conference. We can't seem to get enough of seeing our current subscribers and meeting new folks who care...
Does your Risk/QI Program Make You Happy?
Not, "are you happy with it." But, does it actually make you happy? Does it make your job easier and is it improving healthcare quality in...
Hospital Quality Initiatives Save Nearly $1.5B
In 2012, more than 1,500 hospitals participated with the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) in an initiative aimed at reducing harm and cutting...
A Tale of Reinvention
Have you heard the news? Nurses want to spend more time with their patients. Let’s see… it’s 2014 and we are still challenged with an issue that has...
Who ‘Hawthorned’ the Data?
Remember learning about the Hawthorne Effect? It’s a phenomenon first described by Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger, published in the late 1930s,...
Demand for “intelligence” in HC IT is catching on
A discussion on LinkedIn recently opened around an article by John Glaser, PhD, CEO of health services for Siemens Healthcare. He recently spoke at...
Better Medicine Through Improv
What is the number one factor that everyone talks about when it comes to improving patient outcomes? Hands down it’s good patient communication....