Health IT & Quality: How to Keep Score
In this age of Yelp®, TripAdvisor®, and Amazon®, product reviews greatly influence which items consumers purchase. Anyone who buys regularly online understands over time the validity of various product reviews and learns how to apply a personal algorithm to cut through to meaningful product information while ignoring prefabricated, biased content.
A Dialogue on Improving Patient Experience throughout the Continuum of Care: A New Report From the Beryl Institute
The Beryl Institute has released a white paper that explores the focus on patient, resident, and family experience in various healthcare settings. A Dialogue on Improving Patient Experience throughout the Continuum of Care provides insight from healthcare leaders and reinforces the importance of patient experience. The paper shares a community dialogue held at The Beryl … Continued
Sanjay Saint Receives the APIC 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award
The Association of Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) has awarded Sanjay Saint, MD, with the organization’s Distinguished Scientist Award. The award is given annually to an APIC member who has made a significant and sustained contribution to infection prevention science and who exemplifies scholarly excellence and infection prevention leadership within the scientific community. The award … Continued
Emergency Care Innovation Award of the Year
Application deadline is July 31, 2015. The Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award is an annual competition sponsored by Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group. The award recognizes multidisciplinary emergency department-based teams who have implemented a process or strategy to improve patient, clinical, and operational outcomes and can demonstrate measureable assessment of … Continued
AHA Recognizes Hospitals with the Equity of Care Award
Grants & Awards Award honors hospitals for promoting diversity, reducing health disparities. Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, are both winners of the American Hospital Association’s second annual Equity of Care Award. The AHA award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce healthcare … Continued
Brain and Spine Surgery No More Risky When Physicians-In-Training Participate, Study Finds
Having residents—physicians in training—participate in surgery does not in itself increase a patient’s risk of postoperative complications or of dying within 30 days of the surgery, according to a recent study of more than 16,000 brain and spine surgeries. A report on the study appears in the April issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. “Patients … Continued
Shulkin Confirmed as Under Secretary of Health for US Department of Veterans Affairs
The U.S. Senate has confirmed David J. Shulkin, MD, as the Under Secretary of Health for Veterans Affairs. As the chief executive of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Shulkin will lead the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system with more than 1,700 sites of care, serving 8.76 million veterans each year. VHA is also the nation’s … Continued
Root Cause Analysis: ‘We can do better.’
By Susan Carr Saying, “We can do better,” Jim Bagian declared that root cause analysis (RCA)—the subject of a new report by the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)—offers uncommon potential to improve safety and that, in general, healthcare has not used it well and wasted opportunities to prevent future harm. Bagian and Doug Bonacum were … Continued
ABMRS Administers First Exam for MR Safety Certification
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety (ABMRS) administered the first examination to certify individuals with the credentials MR Medical Director/Physician (MRMD) and MR Safety Officer (MRSO). More than 100 radiologists, technologists, and medical physicists took the exam for either the MRMD or MRSO. Only licensed physicians may sit for … Continued
Shulkin Confirmed as Under Secretary of Health for US Department of Veterans Affairs
The U.S. Senate has confirmed David J. Shulkin, MD, as the Under Secretary of Health for Veterans Affairs. As the chief executive of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Shulkin will lead the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system with more than 1,700 sites of care, serving 8.76 million veterans each year. VHA is also the nation’s … Continued