CommonWell Health Alliance Grows Toward Nationwide Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance has added five new members that significantly enhance the association’s nationwide footprint, share of the EHR marketplace, and diversity across the care continuum. MEDITECH, Merge, and Kareo join as contributing members while PointClickCare and Surgical Information Systems (SIS) join as general members. With the addition of these new members, CommonWell membership now … Continued
ANA Panel Aims to Prevent Violence, Bullying in Healthcare Facilities
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has convened a panel of experts to make recommendations on preventing and reducing workplace violence, bullying, and incivility, behaviors identified by research as particular problems in healthcare settings.
ABQAURP News
Women make approximately 80% of health care purchasing decisions in the U.S.1 Not surprisingly, health care marketing programs increasingly target women.
Health IT & Quality: Getting Ahead
The recent release of the Meaningful Use Stage 3 guidelines signifies the waning influence of the HITECH Act on the direction of healthcare information technology (HIT).
Editor’s Notebook: More Like Birds than Rocks
At the beginning of Rx: The Quiet Revolution, Doug Eby, MD, vice president of medical services at Southcentral Foundation in Alaska, tells a parable about a physician, a rock, a bird, and a target painted on a wall.
Mobile Technlogy: Update Clinical Communication Strategy, Not Just the BYOD Policy
Step into most healthcare facilities and you will notice that while community physicians are openly using their smartphones, employed clinicians are carrying voice-only phones, multiple pagers, or wearable voice-activated two-way communication devices provided by their employers.
ISMP: Strengthen Your Resolve: No Unlabeled Containers Anywhere, Ever!
Just when you think you’ve made significant headway with a persistent unsafe practice, an error creeps up, and disappointment sets in. The error serves to remind you just how vulnerable patients are to human error and to expose…
Better Patient Education for Improved Engagement and Compliance
Solid patient education strategies are foundational to improved compliance and success with national patient engagement initiatives. Numerous regulatory requirements—Meaningful Use, Value-Based Purchasing, and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program—converge to advance the accountable care movement. To succeed in the risk-bearing reimbursement landscape, providers must ensure that patients understand and comply with their care plans.
Healthcare Analytics: Putting Data to Good Use
Clinical intelligence and the role of analytics in supporting a data-driven, constantly improving system are key aspects of healthcare.
Clinician Support: Five Years of Lessons Learned
The “second victim” phenomenon is a serious consequence of any healthcare role. As many as half of all healthcare providers will experience the impact of the second victim phenomenon at least once during their careers (Seys et al., 2013).