UA College of Nursing Receives $1.063 Million Kellogg Grant to Promote Oral Health
The University of Akron’s College of Nursing has
been awarded a $1.063 million 3-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation for a pilot program that aims to improve the oral health of
low-income pregnant women, mothers, and children in Summit and Portage
counties.
AHRQ to Expand Implementation of CUSP Across All 50 States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded the
Health Research & Educational Trust nearly $7 million to
support projects aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections, such as central line-associated bloodstream infections
and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
Quantros Acquires MediQual™ From CareFusion Corporation
Quantros, Inc., an industry leader in healthcare data management,
decision support analytics and prospective point of care data
surveillance solutions, today announced the acquisition of MediQual
from CareFusion Corporation.
Regional Hospital St. Trudo Expands Use of AeroScout Healthcare Visibility Solution to Include Tracking of Patients and Wi-Fi Devices
AeroScout, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, working with Dräger, announced that St. Trudo Hospital in Belgium is extending the use of its AeroScout Healthcare Visibility solution to include tracking the location of patients and Wi-Fi devices.
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.
NQF Helps Ensure Health IT Captures Information to Drive Quality Improvement
The NQF announced the release of the Quality
Data Set, a common technological framework for defining clinical
data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in
patients’ quality of care.
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.
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.
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.
How a Captive Insurer Uses Data and Incentives to Advance Patient Safety
How a Captive Insurer Uses Data and Incentives to
Advance Patient Safety
The Institute of Medicine report (2000), To Err Is Human,
unveiled a truth about the U.S. healthcare system that was previously
either obscure or unrecognized: we have a “non-system” of care with a
relatively high frequency of errors. The high defect rate leads to the
death of thousands of people each year from preventable errors — more
individuals than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or
AIDS (Kohn, 2000).