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Project Dulce, a diabetes care management program housed at Whittier Institute for Diabetes in La Jolla, CA, has successfully addressed not only the difficult challenge of helping patients manage their diabetes, but also another issue of growing concern to quality managers: improving outcomes among minority populations.
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The profession of geriatric care manager has evolved because of the tremendous challenges that health care professionals and families face in managing the care of senior citizens, says Beverly Bernstein Joie, MS, CMC, president of Elder Connections in Philadelphia.
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Do you have an elderly client who, despite your best efforts, is in and out of the hospital and emergency department, has problems with medication compliance, and otherwise seems incapable of understanding or following his or her recommended treatment plan?
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HIV-1 adult treatment guidelines are updated; CMS extends coverage for some O2 patients
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has unveiled a new interactive web-based tool that provides each state a way to evaluate its health care quality, thus providing another resource for benchmarking.
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As home health agencies look for ways to improve outcomes and increase their potential for success within a pay-for-performance (P4P) reimbursement system, disease management programs that allow staff members to specialize in care for specific types of patients may be the road to success for some agencies, according to experts.
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Partnering with patients and family members can provide dramatic new insight into patient safety issues and directly reduce medical errors, according to the experience of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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The recent settlement of the Scruggs charity care lawsuit by a prominent West Coast health system means that more are probably on the way.
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The popular belief that a nonpunitive approach will reduce errors and not get in the way of proper discipline of employees is being challenged by new research that suggests the tactic may not be entirely compatible with efforts to improve patient safety.
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The "black box" warning on medications is the health care system's strongest way to say, "Danger! Take extreme caution with this drug!" But a recent report suggests that your physicians might not be fazed by the warning.