Quality and Safety
Organizations are each expanding services to address non-medical factors that can have a significant impact on individual and population health.
Industry groups like easier quality reporting and advance applications of telehealth, but some say docs shouldn't have to make expensive EHR upgrades for 2019.
Both the National Guideline Clearninghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shut it down on July 16.
Physicians at Affiliated Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons of Maryland now have a better handle on opioid prescribing as they try to combat the ongoing crisis.
It has seen a 21 percent decrease in missed doses, a 66 percent reduction in wasted doses and zero reportable adverse events in the past 11 months.
Healthpoint, its hospital in Abu Dhabi, hopes the new technology will help it advance from Stage 6 to Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.
It's the second such collaboration, using real-world clinical data to track device performance, following the health system's 2017 agreement with Medtronic.
Its new Hospital Operating System will help the safety net provider improve care coordination and develop shared patient progression and length-of-stay targets.
Beyond HCAHPS: CXOs are looking for technology to offer better patient experience as a competitive differentiator.
Clinicians enter quality improvement data at the same time they enter charge capture data, enabling a more timely and robust quality effort.