Clinical Data Abstraction vs. Chart Review: Aligned, But Not Identical
Despite their shared reliance on medical records, chart review and data abstraction serve distinct purposes, follow different processes, and typically deliver very different results for patients and organizations.
Opportunities for Change with TEAM
As the implementation of the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) grows closer, hospitals must continue to move from awareness into execution. Some hospital leaders struggle with the approaching deadline, while early adopters are figuring out how data infrastructure will make or break their performance during TEAM’s five-year window.
Self-Service Research Tool Empowers Clinicians in the ER and Beyond
UChicago Medicine has adopted a self-service data solution that allows clinicians, researchers, staff members, and administrators to engage with their own data to ask and answer their own questions as they seek to improve quality of care.
How to Create a Compelling Educational Webinar
This is a comprehensive guide and checklist for creating and producing a compelling webinar that attracts the right audience, engages participants during the session, and connects with and converts them afterward—with a specific focus on solutions that reduce healthcare-associated infections, enhance patient safety, and improve clinical outcomes.
How to Actually Execute Value-Based Care
Value-based care has continued to shift from aspiration to expectation. But as it does, many organizations are facing a familiar problem: they have a vision of where they want to go, but don’t have the infrastructure to get there.
Follow-Up Imaging Is Challenging. Here’s How to Improve It.
Follow-up imaging can require complicated processes to set up studies and make sure they are completed, with multiple clinicians often involved in a patient’s care. Establishing standardized processes is crucial, and artificial intelligence has the potential to improve radiology workflows.
How RWJBarnabas Health Improved Emergency Department Efficiency
In addition to improving the patient experience in emergency rooms, RWJBarnabas sought to improve efficiency in the emergency department to improve staff experience and well-being.
Engineering Missions: Healing the World Through Healthcare Facility Design
This article explores how engineers are changing our hurting world through their contributions to healthcare facilities design in developing countries, highlighting the technical ingenuity and cultural sensitivity required to make a lasting impact.
ABQAURP News June 2025
Here’s the June 2025 issue of ABQAURP News.
The Evolving Role of Nasal Lavage
The widespread use of nasal swabs during COVID-19 was born out of urgency and necessity. Existing supply chains, manufacturing capacity, and training protocols allowed healthcare systems to quickly deploy swab-based specimen collection worldwide.