If you work in healthcare, then you’re probably aware that there’s room for improvement. You’re also probably aware of the deluge of strategies, solutions, recommendations, and guidance on enhancing quality and patient safety—all of which require time, money, equipment, metrics, and manpower you...
It was a long year of big changes; some unexpected, some you saw coming miles away. To help you find what you need, we’ve created our annual PSMJ Index of all this year’s articles and links. We hope you find this helpful in the upcoming year and we look forward to keeping you up to date on all...
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited Q&A with Craig Deao, MHA, senior leader at Studer Group, on the role of patient engagement in care quality.
PSMJ: How big a role does patient engagement have in care quality? Deao...
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), approximately 8 million American healthcare workers are potentially exposed to hazardous drugs each year. And in May, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report critical of CMS surveyors’...
There’s been a flood of different measures and metrics in recent years. CMS, Joint Commission, hospital organizations, and vendors each have their own way of calculating a hospital’s ranking and improving patient care.
While hospitals are already expected to conduct certain surveys by...
CMS has finalized a much anticipated rule that serves as a significant step in tying quality care with value-based payments.
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) institutes new regulations that will bolster CMS’ Quality Payment Program by rewarding value...
The healthcare industry is transitioning to a new wave of patient safety, according to a group of experts that says high reliability will become a bigger emphasis for healthcare facilities looking to improve quality care.
For industries across the country, data has become a key element of operational improvement, and the use of predictive analytics in particular has opened a new opportunity to better utilize a growing repository of data.
But when it comes to predictive analytics, the healthcare...
A deadly infection that has lingered throughout healthcare for the last several decades is finding a foothold at the national level thanks to recently updated definitions that offer clinicians a more targeted approach for detection and prevention.
