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A new program announced in July by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) aims to help states improve quality of care and share in any cost savings through improved coordination.
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It has long been argued that either you can't make a difference in patients' glucose levels during an inpatient stay, or it didn't make much difference in the long term if you did.
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What happens when you get 122 hospitals to band together and coordinate care for heart attack patients? You save lives, even in small rural hospitals that might not be expected to perform as well as their urban counterparts.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) added four new items to its list of serious reportable events and updated another 25.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July released a final rule related to credentialing and privileges for providers delivering care through telemedicine.
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Palliative care was only recognized as a specialty five years ago by the American College of Graduate Medical Education.
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The continuing state and federal mandates requiring hospitals to report healthcare associated infections threatens to outstrip their original justification, raising questions about whether the labor-intensive efforts will result in true reductions of HAIs, warned Patricia Stone, PhD, FAAN, professor of nursing and director of the Center for Health Policy at Columbia University in New York City.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services controversial 2008 policy to cut reimbursement for selected health care associated infections (HAIs) has led to some positive prevention measures while fulfilling some predicted unintended consequences, according to an unpublished national survey of infection preventionists.
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As the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration moves deliberatively toward an infectious diseases standard, two paradigms could spell very different fates for a proposed rule.
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The U.S. public health system is trying to catch up with the explosion of infections with multidrug resistant gram negative rods (MDR-GNR) by standardizing surveillance definitions and changing laboratory breakpoints.
