Most hospitals have created some sort of campaign to raise levels of hand hygiene compliance-from creating signs and uploading sing-along viral videos to deploying "secret shoppers" around the nation to sneakily observe who may or may not be washing their hands.
Understanding HIT nationally and on the local front lines
In the past couple of months, there have been numerous publications around health information technology (HIT) and patient safety. In November 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its report, Health IT...
Value-based purchasing (VBP) has long been on the minds of many healthcare professionals. Slowly but surely, VBP has embedded itself in healthcare, including, of course, Medicare reimbursement.
Oncology clinics traditionally house some of the most vulnerable patients when it comes to contracting dangerous infections, further compounding the already debilitating effects of cancer treatments like chemotherapy. Because of this, it's doubly important that oncology clinics...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 1
As the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, medical errors just don't seem to be going away. Many healthcare professionals agree that reporting such errors is the only way to learn from them and prevent them in the future. But although most medical centers have...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 23, Issue 1
True or False: Power failures, loss of water or utilities, floods, and tornados are all examples of situations that could result in the activation of all or part of the Emergency Operations Plan.
