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Tips for Integrating Medication into Clinical Decision Support
An expert explains how hospitals can use clinical decision support to improve care while alleviating clinician frustration.
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Improve Clinical Decision Support to Alleviate Frustration
Clinical decision support (CDS) is meant to improve care quality by providing helpful alerts and advice to the electronic health record user. However, too often the result is an annoying proliferation of pop-ups that only frustrate clinicians. When the CDS system interrupts too much with alerts that are not useful, the result can be counterproductive. Clinicians routinely dismiss alerts. In the process, they may ignore those alerts that are useful, say researchers and hospital leaders.
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Analysis: ASCs Saved Nearly $29 Billion in Medicare Costs 2011-2018
The authors estimated ambulatory surgery centers could reduce program costs by another $73.4 billion from 2019 to 2028.
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AAAHC Takes Pragmatic Approach in Latest Edition of Handbook
There are notable updates regarding surgical site marking, high-alert medications, and quality improvement projects.
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Hospitals Without Walls
In April, CMS unveiled “Hospitals Without Walls,” a COVID-19 pandemic-specific policy likely to affect both hospitals and surgery centers. It provides a path for a Medicare-approved ASC to change its status to a hospital, thus allowing just about any Medicare-approved procedure permitted in a hospital to be performed in a surgery center — and at hospital reimbursement rates.
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HHS Releases Latest Iteration of Antibiotic Resistance Action Plan
The five-point strategy crafted in previous years remains the same, but the tactics have improved to help execute the goals. The new plan includes details about stronger and more evidence-based activities that have reduced antibiotic resistance that public health officials can lean on to drive progress.
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Operating Room Noise May Be Louder Than It Seems
The authors of a research project found the average noise level in one OR was 68 decibels, with a maximum average noise level of 87 decibels, which is about as loud as a hairdryer. The peak noise level was comparable to the sound of a bulldozer.
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Decision Aids Can Help with Surgery Utilization
Surgeons can use educationally based decision aids to improve rates of knee arthroplasty utilization among African Americans. The decision aids should include information about pre- and postoperative pain and performance outcomes.
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Organizations Say It Is Time for Clinicians to Speak Out for Change
Many healthcare organizations, including the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, joined hundreds of businesses in condemning racism and police brutality. The American College of Surgeons issued a call to action on racism as a public health crisis.
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Healthy Black Children More Likely to Die After Surgery
The authors of a recent study found African American children who are otherwise apparently healthy are 3.43 times more likely to die within 30 days after surgery when compared with white patients.