Medscape News recently held a poll asking what healthcare workers if they approved of the accreditor’s decision to allow medical orders to be sent via text message.
Together with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, The Joint Commission has developed a new certification program for facilities with acute stroke ready certification.
The Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act was introduced to the House of Representatives last Wednesday, with the goal of reforming Medicare payments to improve care quality. One of the bill’s proposed changes addresses a longstanding argument in the healthcare industry by allowing...
A new meta-study by a John Hopkins research team questions the validity of using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) patient safety indicators (PSI) and CMS’s hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) for pay-for-performance and public reporting.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is still investigating four deaths caused by mold infections at UPMC, its “Notes from the Field” report says the room’s air pressure may have had a role in their deaths.
Antimicrobial overuse is a major problem for hospitals. Overuse of antibiotics can lead to the development of multidrug-resistant organisms, unintended antibiotic toxicity, and Clostridium difficile infections. CMS and The Joint Commission have increased their emphasis on antimicrobial...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week that it was cancelling the recall of 2,800 Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors (AER.) Custom Ultrasonics was one of the corporations embroiled in the duodenoscope scandal last year, after contaminated scopes caused scores...
