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While The Joint Commission is asking health care facilities to use computerized physician order entry and bar coding technology as an adjunct to arm themselves in managing high-risk medications including anticoagulants, a recent study highlights the errors implicit in this kind of information technology (IT) support.
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In April 2008, the state of Colorado was awarded $1,816,199 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for two projects designed to reduce the use of hospital emergency departments.
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States can save billions of dollars by placing the "dual-eligible" population in an integrated setting with managed care organizations responsible for coordinating all services, according to a new report written by The Lewin Group and sponsored by the Association for Community Affiliated Plans and Medicaid Health Plans of America.
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States are shifting long-term services and dollars from nursing homes to care in the community, with 75% of states expanding coverage for home services, according to a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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What makes educational material a must-read? The key is to make documents easy to read and understand, says Doug Seubert, guideline editor in Quality Improvement and Care Management at Marshfield (WI) Clinic.
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Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) improves pain control for most patients, but a recent study1 shows that errors related to this practice are four times more likely to result in patient harm than errors that occur with other medications.
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A shrinking workforce, expanding patient base, and sicker patients are challenges that many home health agencies are meeting with technology.
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Home health managers don't normally keep a crystal ball in their supply closet, but the ability to predict, or at least guess, at the future of home health as our country faces economic and political changes could be helpful.
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The implementation of an online order entry system at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor has produced a 29% reduction in medication errors while at the same time cutting by 40% the time between ordering and administering urgent medications.