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Immunization awareness plays an important role in patient care; in fact, most adults are unaware that immunizations are not just for kids anymore. Therefore, it is the responsibility of health care providers to be knowledgeable about pertinent vaccines for their patient population.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its transformation of how it pays ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) and hospitals for outpatient services, but each iteration of the four-year project nonetheless manages to raise a fresh round of objections.
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Hospital pharmacies often encounter obstacles in the budgeting process, particularly when it's difficult to obtain the necessary data or when a health care organization is having a difficult year financially.
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Ask any pharmacy director about presenting budgets to a hospital's top managers, and you'll hear that it wasn't easy, especially when the budget projects a major increase in costs.
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When working on the pharmacy department's budget, it's important to have the most accurate data available both within the health care organization and outside of it. It's also important to convince physicians of changing prescribing habits that might unnecessarily increase the pharmacy department's costs without adding to any improvements in patient care.
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When Shore Memorial Hospital of Somers Point, NJ, completed its three-year transition to adopting new electronic technologies, including a bar-code point-of-care system, there were numerous positive outcomes.
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At Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, families are given a patient pathway to accompany certain clinical pathways that are used by the medical team to coordinate care.
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By combining its individual disease management programs into a member-centered system and reminding members of gaps in recommended care, Buffalo-based HealthNow New York helps members assume responsibility for managing their conditions so they can stay healthy and out of the hospital.
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Members with bipolar disorder are getting the help they need to keep their condition under control through a new telephone coaching program from Health Alliance Plan (HAP) of Michigan.
