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Lean thinking can be well-suited for IRB office
The philosophy of Lean thinking and processes has branched from manufacturing and business into healthcare over the years, and now some IRB offices are finding that these types of continuous improvement processes work well when used to create greater efficiencies in the human research protection world.
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In their own words: Docs describe extended hours
How do physicians on the frontlines feel about the ongoing debate about their working hours? Here are some of the comments to a recent Washington Post article on the issue by people identifying themselves as physicians.
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Demands to Stop Controversial Work Trials
Refuting that it gave a green light to “highly unethical” research, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education won't rescind waivers of 2011 duty-hour requirements for physician training.
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Study shows a data route tying quality to VBP
Value-based purchasing has added more weight to the role of quality managers in collecting data related to 30-day readmission rates. These readmission rates now affect a health system’s Medicare reimbursement, and the key is to look at data in a way that will highlight areas where improvements can have a positive effect on them.
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“Warm handoffs” can reduce hospitals’ readmission rates
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, MA, improved its readmission rates through a quality improvement process that included measurements of “warm handoff” rates.
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Health organization’s PI program speeds up multiple EDs
Hospital emergency department visits have increased by nearly one-third since the mid-1990s, and these high volumes have led to increased problems, such as overcrowded EDs and greater numbers of patients being diverted to other facilities or leaving without being seen, studies show.
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Hospital’s sepsis QI program lead to drop in mortality rate
There are many good reasons for a quality manager to focus on sepsis data collection and quality improvement, but the most important one is that patients — even those who were recently in optimal health — can die from sepsis if it’s not diagnosed early.
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Quality department evolution to deeper data, more efficient action
Health system quality departments are beginning a transformation from the oversee-everything focus of past years to a more efficient process in which quality managers provide support, while allowing front line leaders to analyze and act on data.
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Quality management’s role evolves as hospitals shift to population health
The U.S. health system’s new transition to a population health model has resulted in healthcare systems and payers adjusting to new kinds of contracts and payment reform. Fee-for-service is being phased out and replaced with the concept of providing quality care for a population as cost-effectively as possible.
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Moving from data to action – Finding meaning in numbers
As healthcare systems shift from the fee-for-service model to managing health across a population of patients, hospital quality managers’ work using quality indicators and other data is moving to front and center of the evolution.