What can healthcare facilities do before then to improve CAUTI compliance before the Joint Commission's newest NPSG goes into effect on January 1, 2017?
For the second time in less than six months, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being questioned on its ability to regulate the safety of medical devices. Many are asking why the agency has allowed the INRatio monitor, a blood-testing device, to remain on the market after thousands of...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally published its Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain on March 15. However, the guidelines are voluntary and after months of protests, some question how many in the healthcare sector will adopt them.
Johns Hopkins Medicine coordinates high-quality care across ambulatory care centers, using a model it says has resulted in improved metrics associated with breast cancer screenings, immunizations, and diabetes management.
It’s the second year for CMS’s value-based payment modifier (VBM) program, a part of the Affordable Care Act using Medicare reimbursements to encourage high-quality and cost-effective care. However, the number of physician groups rewarded for their scores on the Physician Quality Reporting...
For the last two years, healthcare organizations have been working to comply with the first phase of The Joint Commission's alarm management National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG). As of January 1, 2016, they'll have to contend with the second phase as well.
The average medical practice spends 785 hours a year on quality measure reporting. That’s equivalent to 98 eight-hour days being used to check boxes and fill out text fields. While 81 days of that work is done by other staff, the remaining 17 falls on physicians to complete.
There’s around 1 million American physicians who’re allowed to write opioid prescriptions, or one out of 320 Americans. However, fewer than 32,000 physicians are allowed to prescribe buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid addiction.
CMS has begun adopting the preventable quality indicators (PQI) rate into its incentive and penalty program as a way to measure the number of preventable hospital admissions. However, PQI rates only agree with physicians' assessments 10% of the time.
