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Alarms top safety list again
At press time, ECRI released its annual list of top 10 patient safety issues. At the top again was alarms; something that has been a concern for ECRI over the course of several lists. This time, the issue list focuses on the policies and practices around alarms. Other familiar items on the list include Health IT — a concern to regulators like The Joint Commission, which issued Sentinel Event Alert related to Health IT last month.
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Successful sepsis program leads to national award
It has been five years since Martin Doerfler, MD, came to North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System as senior vice president for clinical strategy and development and associate chief medical officer. When he started, the 18-hospital system based in Great Neck, NY, had a sepsis rate that was above the national average. Healthgrades noted the system was “underperforming” in the area. Before he started, sepsis was the largest single contributor to mortality in the health system. They created a task force to try to deal with it, he says.
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Submersion and Drowning Injuries
MONOGRAPH: Survival depends on a coordinated effort to minimize the interval between airway compromise and ventilatory efforts.
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Medication reconciliation: Make it somebody’s job
Medication reconciliation is so important to the wellbeing of patients that proof it is done is something that is required by accreditors. But who should do it? Is there someone who is best placed to do it? And if there are multiple people who could do it, do any of them know who is doing it?
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ICD-10 is finally on the horizon
At a time when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is putting extreme value on high-quality data, the repeated delays to the implementation of ICD-10 are impeding progress toward that very goal.
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Proposed: Eight Stage 3 meaningful use objectives and their measures
The list of proposed Stage 3 meaningful use objectives and their measures.
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Stage 3 EHR Meaningful Use Proposals Include Eight Core Goals
Get ready for interoperability, simplified meaningful use measures, and program alignment. These are the highlights of the proposed rule for Stage 3 of the incentive programs — with an estimated $1.6 billion in incentive payments for hospitals.
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Emergency department collections nearly double with price estimates
Rising deductibles and lack of information on out-of-pocket costs make emergency department collections difficult, but patient access departments are succeeding with tools and training. Collections at Genesis Health System nearly doubled with a payment estimate tool, and collections rose by 10% at Cooper Health System because staff ask consistently.
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Premera Blue Cross says 11 million records breached
Boston-based health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced recently that a cyberattack might have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers.
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No date yet for OCR’s HIPAA audits
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) still has not set a date for when the next round of HIPAA audits, originally planned for fall 2014, will take place.