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Hospitals are increasingly focusing on lowering readmission rates to improve quality and patient safety and reduce costs. One contributor to 30-day readmissions is failure to take medications properly. To target medication noncompliance, Decatur, Ga.-based hospital DeKalb Medical is partnering with…
The following article is written by Eric J. Stenson, director of enterprise applications for Surgical Notes. The views expressed are those of the author and are not endorsed by Surgical Notes. It is well understood that ambulatory surgery centers…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published a set of curricular modules designed to help healthcare providers understand and promote health literacy in pharmacy settings.
Relying on out-of-network cases is seen as a risky move in the surgery center industry, but many centers still manage to garner a profit. However, getting out-of-network reimbursement from payors is becoming increasingly difficult, says David Lau, managing partner, Medical…
Researchers have suggested rates of surgical site infections are a reliable measure of hospital quality of care, according to an AHRQ publication.
Utah's House Health and Human Services Standing Committee has thrown its support to legislation that would require all healthcare facilities to report infection rates to the state, according to a Deseret News report.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a toolkit, which includes steps for quality improvement, 17 patient safety indicators and 28 inpatient quality indicators, to help providers boost patient safety within their organizations.
Physicians in community-based office practices have error rates nearly 50 percent lower one year after adopting an electronic prescribing system integrated within an electronic health record, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety…
A new study published in Radiology found preoperative MRIs help surgeons make more informed decisions about nerve-sparing procedures and may reduce the risk of nerve damage in men undergoing prostate cancer surgery, according to a Radiological Association of North America…