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The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) in Lawrenceville, NJ, has given 10 grants of up to $50,000 each to consumer organizations representing people with chronic illnesses and disabilities for projects that will increase access to services and enhance consumer capacity to navigate the Medicaid managed care delivery system.
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Changes are needed in the education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals to improve patient safety and quality of care, according to a new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in Washington, DC.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a new web-based tool that can help hospitals enhance their patient safety performance by quickly detecting potential medical errors in patients who have undergone medical or surgical care.
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The occurrence of medical errors made by health care providers against patients has been at the forefront of the media in recent years.
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At Oxford Health Plans based in Trumbull, CT, 3% of its members account for half of the plans medical costs.
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Often in health plans, disease management is in one silo, case management is in another, pharmacy management is in another, and they may not interrelate.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has changed how it scores organizations on its National Patient Safety Goal to eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgery.
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New clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, detection, and treatment of high blood pressure have been released by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, MD.