New SHEA Epi Project Winner to Examine Best Practices in HAI Surveillance
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) has announced Jason Lempp, MPH, CIC, as the winner of the third annual EPI Project Competition. Lempp was honored with the early investigator award for his project looking to determine if the Washington State Validation Protocol for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) can be a scalable, sustainable model for tracking and ensuring quality national data on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
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‘Management by Walking Around’ Programs in Hospitals May Do More Harm Than Good
Management-By-Walking-Around, a widely adopted technique in hospitals in which senior managers visit the frontlines of their organizations to solicit improvement ideas and resolve issues, has the potential to do more harm than good, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Business School (HBS).
OpenNotes Program Expands with Toolkit; Psych Notes, Too
OpenNotes is a program that allows patients to read their clinicians’ notes as they appear in the medical record. The program started less than five years ago and currently includes 2 million patients in health systems across the country, including the Department of Veterans Affairs.
AHA Launches Symposium for Healthcare Quality Leaders to Increase Patient Safety Improvements
To further cement its commitment to improve quality and patient safety in America’s hospitals, the American Hospital Association is launching a new forum – the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality (SLHQ). SLHQ provides healthcare improvement professionals a setting to collaborate and share best practices to improve quality and patient safety.
Sanford Health’s Real-time Operational Intelligence Initiative Includes Sonitor Sense Technology
Sonitor Technologies, Inc., a technology leader in Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) in healthcare, has completed of the installation of its innovative RTLS hardware technology at Sanford Health’s new Moorhead clinic, scheduled to open at the end of April.
Borgess Health Implements Nuance Solution to Drive Improved Quality Scores
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that Borgess Health, which provides care to nearly one million people across southwest Michigan, has secured $9 million in additional appropriate revenue within one year of implementing the Nuance Compliant Documentation Management Program (CDMP®), part of the Nuance Clintegrity 360 | CDI solution.
American Society of Anesthesiologists Selects Premier, Inc. to Develop Learning Collaborative
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has chosen Premier, Inc., a leading health care improvement company, to develop a first-of-its-kind learning collaborative for the ASA’s Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) model of care.
Zeroing In: UWB Technology Offers Greater Accuracy for Real-Time Location Services
The launch of the world’s first commercially available ultra wideband (UWB) wireless transceiver in November 2013 creates new opportunities for ‘location-based’ healthcare services, such as RTLS systems, patient monitoring, and critical equipment and personnel tracking, in U.S. hospitals.
ECRI Institute PSO Convenes First Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative on Health IT Safety
ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO), a leader in analyzing safety data associated with electronic health records, has launched the first multi-stakeholder partnership to generate new knowledge on safe health IT practices.