Planetree and CMSA Announce Strategic Business Alliance

Planetree, a non-profit organization facilitating efforts to create
patient-centered care in healing environments, has entered into a new
strategic business alliance with the Case Management Society of America, the nation’s largest multi-disciplinary professional
association for case management.

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Editor’s Notebook: Conferences and Silos

Editor’s Notebook

Conferences and Silos

While attending a number of conferences in October, I was struck by the
siloed nature of most of the educational sessions I attend. As a member
of the media, I go to a lot of conferences. Though I often work on
articles that identify “silos” — the provincial cultures of specialized
communities in healthcare — as counter-productive for safety, I had not
previously recognized the silos in conference-based education.

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AHRQ: Comparative Effectiveness Research

AHRQ

Comparative Effectiveness Research: Keeping the Patient at the Center

With this issue, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH)
reaches its fifth anniversary, which prompts me to take a moment and
think about how much the world has changed and stayed the same in the
past five years. When we published the first issue, in July 2004, the
patient safety community was discussing how much progress—if any—had
been made since the IOM published To Err Is Human five years earlier, and now we are assessing progress made over the past 10 years.

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Health IT & Quality: Making Meaningful Use “Meaningful”

Health IT & Quality

Making Meaningful Use “Meaningful”

A short three years ago, the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was funded
at a level of less than $150 million. Today, thanks to the Health
Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 — part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act —
the ONC received a budget of over $2 billion. In addition, no less than
an additional $19 billion is set aside to facilitate the adoption of
electronic medical records over the next decade.

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