The nation is still working to get a majority of the population vaccinated against COVID-19 as coronavirus variants create patient surges in many states. Hospitals and other healthcare organizations are being asked to step up yet again to provide more shots in arms.
As the president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Kedar Mate, MD, is the leader of one of the top healthcare reform organizations in the world. IHI was founded in 1991. The nonprofit organization has been involved in a range of healthcare improvement initiatives,...
The 50 states and Washington, D.C., experienced an average of five fewer deaths from COVID-19 per 10,000 adult residents as a result of early vaccination efforts through May 9, according to the study. Adjusting for population size, New York saw the largest estimated reduction, with 11.7 fewer...
Depending on where you are, you may be bumping up against process elements that are causing certain activities to be “late,” even beyond the grace periods you’ve woven...
FEMA is asking healthcare organizations needing extra medical staff because of the COVID-19 surge to work with local agencies first, and to consider reducing elective procedures and activating retired or reserve medical staff.
It’s not every day that doctors, nurses, and other clinicians get to help design their new hospital. Providers are doing just that at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital in California. The organization is planning a new, nine-story hospital building and hopes to begin construction in November...
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging CMS to expand its hospital Conditions of Participation, or at least the interpretive guidelines for the current CoPs, to improve oversight of the cybersecurity of networked medical devices. The OIG is concerned that neither surveyors from CMS...
About 14% of respondents to a new the survey reported that access to telehealth kept them out of the emergency department. The new national survey of 1776 people, conducted by telephone in June and July by the ...
Telehealth as a percentage of all medical claims rose 2% nationally from April to May after dropping for the three previous months, according to nonprofit FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Overall, telehealth represented 5% of all medical claims in May, up from 4.9% in April,...
