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A new planning guide funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is designed to help communities nationwide make sure that all Americans have needed drugs and vaccines in the event of a natural epidemic or bioterrorist attack.
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A medication safety improvement initiative at Heartland Health in St. Joseph, MO, employed a structure centered around PASTE plus teams and four key subprocesses to achieve significant process improvement and earn the Missouri Team Quality Award.
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In a move widely welcomed by health care quality professionals, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organi-zations (JCAHO) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have signed an agreement to completely align current and future common Hospital Quality Measures in their condition-specific measure sets.
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One of the great challenges in the whole world of quality and patient safety is learning to take advantage of the richness of clinical cases, says Robert M. Wachter , MD, professor and associate chairman in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and chief of the medical
service at UCSF Medical Center.
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With at least eight California hospitals closed in 2004 and more closings expected before years end, the nations quality managers could not be blamed for hoping that this time the adage that Everything starts in California does not prove true.
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A distance-learning patient safety improvement program developed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio by Maj. Danny Jaghab, MS, RD, LD, has won a prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award.
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Salary levels are up for risk managers this year but may be leveling off, according to the results of this years Healthcare Risk Management Salary Survey.
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The Radio-Television News Directors Association says all journalists, and particularly those working for electronic media, have been hampered in their work by actual HIPAA privacy requirements and by interpretations of those requirements by some people and organizations.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of HIPAA Standards staffer Dianne Faup says the agency has received more than 200 transaction/code set complaints, with some 58 still open at the time of her September presentation to the Ninth Annual HIPAA Summit.
