"Leadership and Business Strategies for Integrative Health Care" will be held May 15-17 at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, AZ.
The latest edition of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) National Healthcare Quality Report contained some disappointing news for quality professionals: The quality of health care improved by an average 2.3% a year between 1994 and 2005, compared with the 3.1% average annual improvement rate published in the 2006 reports.
HealthGrades partners with Google for consumers, PHCQA launches new quality web site
The implementation of computerized physician order entry (CPOE) by hospitals in Massachusetts could save each facility an estimated $2.7 million a year by reducing error rates, shortening length of hospital stays, and curtailing unnecessary drug tests and laboratory use, according to a study co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) and the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI).
A unique partnership between SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood, MO, and six physician groups has created a separate new company to manage a pilot nursing unit designed to develop and test new patient care processes for the future SSM St. Clare Health Center.
Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver has launched a Patient Navigator Program, becoming the fifth site in the state to participate in a nationwide effort to extend the reach of the American Cancer Society's (ACS) initiative, designed to assist individual cancer patients in negotiating the health care system.
The radiology lab at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in the Boston area has nearly cut the wait time for patients in half through the implementation of a Six Sigma process improvement initiative. What's more, the program has also saved the department more than $700,000 with increased efficiency.
For many years, treatment of acute MI with ST segment elevation (STEMI) has been fibrinolytic therapy or percutaneous intervention (PCI), with the primary objective to engage patients as soon as possible after the onset of chest pain in efforts to remove or decrease thrombus burden.
