Hospital Peer Review – August 1, 2011
August 1, 2011
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CMS changes telemedicine credentialing rules
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July released a final rule related to credentialing and privileges for providers delivering care through telemedicine. -
IT: More than a tool for quality improvement
For most organizations, health information technology (HIT) is a tool to be used in quality improvement projects, not the end in and of itself. But the future promises to be different: a time when HIT can be the end of the QI process, the improvement personified. -
Data collection comes to palliative care
Palliative care was only recognized as a specialty five years ago by the American College of Graduate Medical Education. -
NQF expands list of reportable events
The National Quality Forum (NQF) added four new items to its list of serious reportable events and updated another 25. -
RACE program dashes to success
What happens when you get 122 hospitals to band together and coordinate care for heart attack patients? You save lives, even in small rural hospitals that might not be expected to perform as well as their urban counterparts. -
Getting a handle on glucose control
It has long been argued that either you can't make a difference in patients' glucose levels during an inpatient stay, or it didn't make much difference in the long term if you did. -
IPs save over $100,000 by using ... duct tape?
OK, maybe duct tape really can fix everything. A simple red roll of this prime tool in the kit of every weekend repairman led to some rather startling results for innovative infection preventionists. -
News Briefs
A new program announced in July by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) aims to help states improve quality of care and share in any cost savings through improved coordination.