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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The National Quality Forum (NQF) added four new items to its list of serious reportable events and updated another 25.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July released a final rule related to credentialing and privileges for providers delivering care through telemedicine.
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Palliative care was only recognized as a specialty five years ago by the American College of Graduate Medical Education.
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The state of Arizona has proposed a $50 annual fee on childless adults in Medicaid who are obese or smokers.
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Elders and adults with severe disabilities have mostly remained under traditional fee-for-service Medicaid plans, but this is now changing, according to Thomas L. Johnson, BA, JD, president and CEO of Medicaid Health Plans of America, a Washington, DC-based trade association representing Medicaid health plans.
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As a result of the Indiana legislature voting to cut off $3 million in federal money from Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services, the state's Planned Parenthood clinics stopped treating Medicaid patients, but a June 24 federal district court ruling blocked provisions of the state law.
