Patient Safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to...
How Excellent Patient Care Saves Costs
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Performance Measures
7 Steps to Increasing ROI with Performance Improvement
For a long time, Quality and Safety Event reporting have been recognized as important but often downplayed tasks when it came to getting the...
Eliminating Hospital Acquired Infections
Hand-hygiene helps. But, studies show hospital workers wash their hands less frequently by end of workday A few weeks back we talked about how...
Top 14 Healthcare Stories of 2014
1) Healthcare.gov Gets Clean Bill Of Health… Kind Of. Few health stories in 2013 captured as much news coverage and attention than the launch of the...
Alarm Fatigue — Do You Have It?
I know you can relate to this situation. You're walking through a parking lot when suddenly a car alarm starts going off and doesn't stop, and (I'm...
eHealth Initiative roadmap calls for alignment of HIT regulatory efforts
The eHealth Initiative has unveiled its 2020 roadmap for transforming health IT. Calling it “much broader” than the Office of National Coordinator...
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Evidence-based protocols drive quality improvement
An article published in FierceHelathcare’s eBook “Systemwide Transformations that Improve Healthcare Quality and Efficiency.” argues the best way to...
How Compliant Are You?
National Flu Vaccine Week is Almost Over.But, for many, the pain is not. No one enjoys the thought of getting a shot, and Risk and Quality Managers...