Quality and Safety
Two-way data sharing can help hospitals gain ground on quality improvement initiatives.
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General, Patricia Horoho, has joined Optum to lead the company’s efforts to deliver information technology-based support services to active duty military personnel, veterans and their families.
The project tells patient stories via paintings by artist Regina Holliday.
I-PASS Patient Safety Institute is helping the academic hospital achieve safer shift changes with game-based training, EHR mnemonics and benchmarking tools in the cloud.
The agency, seeking to ease EHR reporting burdens, will also allow both 2015 and 2014-certified EHRs for 2018.
The health system, with 22 hospitals, is first in the nation to turn to non-invasive technology.
Report offers advice on how to do it right – the way patients want.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would receive $5.8 billion in funding, with only $300 million designated for the lead research group on healthcare quality, costs and outcomes.
Focusing on 30 high-performing hospitals, the group will work with anesthesiologists to create new strategies for post-op pain management.
The new risk-sharing project, which seeks to eliminate redundancies and maximize sourcing gains will unfold over eight years.