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Even the best hospitals are likely to get something wrong during a survey, and Paul Ziaya, MD, a surveyor in his tenth year with The Joint Commission, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the ones that are most likely to be a problem.
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AHC Medias Hospital Report blog won first place for Best Blog or Commentary at SIPA 2014: Strategies for Growth, the annual conference for specialized information publishers, held June 4-6 in Washington, DC
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Hospitals and health systems might be interested in several of the initiatives announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at its Health Datapalooza event this spring, which brought more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, health policy advocates, and health industry leaders together.
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When the CEO of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys health system said he wanted to be the safest health system in America, six years ago, he wasnt just talking.
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Surgical patients have one less thing to worry about when they go into the hospital now: There is a much lower likelihood of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in either legs or lungs for those who get preventive treatment based on appropriate risk assessment prior to surgery, and a quick return to walking after.
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Theres a thing in science called the observation effect, where the very act of observing something changes the outcome. Is it possible that something similar is happening with cardiac patients?
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According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, were getting better at delivering healthcare.
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Sociologists are professionally nosy, and Ksenia Gorgenko, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Joanna Brooks, PhD, MBioethics, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard, were happy to wander around hospitals asking doctors and other providers, as well as administrators and executives, about quality improvement (QI) efforts.
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One lesson that came out of UnitedHealthcares (UHC) Health Engagement Network (HEN) is that hospital administrators and also front-line personnel might have heard enough about that old quality chestnut called best practices.
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The patient, a 48-year-old man, was admitted to a medical center seeking treatment in September 2009. The patient was diagnosed with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), a condition in which the body begins to destroy its own red blood cells quickly.
