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The Disease-Specific Care (DSC) certification offered by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is designed to evaluate disease management and chronic care services provided by hospitals, health plans, disease management service companies, and other care delivery settings.
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The latest requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) call for more detailed evaluation of processes than ever before, causing one health care system to look to industry for the tools needed to respond appropriately.
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At the heart of the decision to use computer simulation modeling at Overlook was the need to answer one basic question: Will the flow-gorithms work?
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An attorney receives minimally invasive hip surgery and is back in court the next day.
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Imagine hearing this as part of a competitors advertising campaign: At your hospital, fewer pneumonia patients receive antibiotics within recommended time frames. And your facility boasts the highest inpatient mortality rate for heart attacks.
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While an elderly man on warfarin was waiting to get blood drawn at his physicians office, he was handed some educational materials about the drug. The packet included warnings that the shape of the pill may change based on the manufacturer of the drug, but the color will never change, says Kim Shields, RN, clinical systems safety officer and team leader for the Virtual Anticoagulation Project at Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital.
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Are you lobbying for your organization to make a capital investment in information technology systems? A new report from the Washington, DC-based Institute of Medicine (IOM) may give you added ammunition.
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There is abundant evidence that preventing deadly health care-associated infections is a top priority for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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