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Improving hand hygiene is a perennial problem for hospitals, but some are finding the strategies that work best depend on knowing your true rate of handwashing before trying to improve it.
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Medical devices can pose a serious threat to patient safety and protected health information if they are compromised by hackers, and hospital leaders should not trust that the manufacturer has adequately protected them, say experts in the field.
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Some states are willing to financially support the use of social determinants of health (SDOH) to address health issues affecting the community.
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Social determinants of health (SDOH) are deeply integrated with clinical care at San Mateo County Health in San Mateo, CA, says Eric Raffin, FACHE, CHCIO, chief information officer. The county has about 130,000 Medi-Cal recipients, well over 10% of the population.
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The healthcare community is gradually accepting that social determinants of health (SDOH) can improve quality of care. Finding a way to apply the data can be difficult, but several hospitals and health systems are showing how it can be done.
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Fewer than half of U.S. hospitals follow CMS’s sepsis treatment requirements, according to a recent government report.
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Hospital ratings on publicly available resources could be improved by allowing patients to prioritize their needs and preferences, according to a recent analysis by the RAND Corporation, a public-private think tank based in California.
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A Chicago hospital has failed in its attempt to sue the Leapfrog Group for defamation related to its low score, and the experience may hold a lesson for other hospitals about ensuring the accuracy of data submitted to Leapfrog Group and other ratings organizations.
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Participation agreements for the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced program from CMS were due recently, and providers are going live with the program on Oct. 1. In a new twist from old versions of BPCI, CMS has issued an option for providers to retrospectively drop out of the program in March 2019.
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Hospitals may soon have a more uniform set of guidance on protecting patients from ligature risk, with CMS announcing recently in a memo to state survey agency directors that it will incorporate findings from The Joint Commission Suicide Panel’s November 2017 special report on suicide prevention into its revised interpretive guidance.