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It has long been argued that either you can't make a difference in patients' glucose levels during an inpatient stay, or it didn't make much difference in the long term if you did.
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A new program announced in July by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) aims to help states improve quality of care and share in any cost savings through improved coordination.
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For most organizations, health information technology (HIT) is a tool to be used in quality improvement projects, not the end in and of itself. But the future promises to be different: a time when HIT can be the end of the QI process, the improvement personified.
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OK, maybe duct tape really can fix everything. A simple red roll of this prime tool in the kit of every weekend repairman led to some rather startling results for innovative infection preventionists.
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To address the problem of increased risk to patient safety in off hours in your own facility, risk managers should first assess the risk. Study the off-hours calls to the rapid response team, cardiac arrest outcomes, sentinel events, and other incidents relative to safety and outcomes, says Carol A. Burkhart, RN, MS, ARNP, CPHRM, CHC, senior vice president with Marsh/Clinical Healthcare Consulting in Chicago.
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Provider participants in the collaboration organized by Crico Strategies concluded that optimal physician-nurse communication at critical junctures in ED care are key to reducing diagnosis-related errors.
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Communication among caregivers is always important, but never more so than in the emergency department. A collaboration among hospitals across the country and a leading malpractice insurer has produced several simple but effective ways to improve communication.
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A new online network has been launched to collect and distribute information about adverse drug events in the United States. The new service, called RxEvent, is available to all U.S. prescribers via integration into electronic health record (EHR) platforms and other online services, including directly at www.RxEvent.org.
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This year you have multiple options for filling out the annual "Healthcare Risk Management Salary Survey." You may go online to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hrmsalarysurvey, or if you have a smartphone, you may scan the QR code and complete the survey on your phone. A print version of the salary also is enclosed in this issue that may be mailed in.
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These are some more findings from the Aon Risk Solutions' "2011 Long Term Care General Liability and Professional Liability Actuarial Analysis":
