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Hospitals are making progress on collecting and reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network, according to a new survey by the Premier healthcare alliance.
For the second year in a row, Detroit Medical Center executives say they have achieved improved patient safety and saved $5 million to boot.
In May of 1886 the American South made one of its biggest concessions since the end of the Civil War—three inches. After months of negotiations, the Southern Railway Company agreed to tailor their railroad gauges to fit the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s standards.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) promises to improve care quality and reduce costs through highly individualized chronic care management featuring patient self-management, online interaction among interdisciplinary care team members, proactive monitoring using registry and needs-based care, according to the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC).
Establishing 60 health Regional Extension Centers across the country to help solo and small physician practices get on board with electronic health records is the right prescription for a system that remains mired in paper. A recent report from eHealth Initiative shows that the centers - called RECs - are off to a slow start.
With the publication of the meaningful use guidelines on July 13, it is now clear what hospitals and doctors must demonstrate in their adoption of electronic medical records to grab a share of the billions of dollars available in federal incentives.
In today's charged debates about healthcare, one issue enjoys strong bipartisan support: the need to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse that collectively cost as much as $700 billion annually - nearly one-third of total healthcare spending.
William F. Jessee, MD, President and CEO, MGMA
Recently the ECRI Institute announced that it had added 4,000 new terms to the Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System, bringing the total to 24,544; many more, it said, were in the works.
Nimble, a new comprehensive EMR application designed and developed specifically for the iPad, hit the market Tuesday with the aim of allowing docs to provide meaningful care - at the point of care.